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Pursuant to the Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (Communications Act of 31 July 1997, no. 249, see IRIS 1997-8: 10), the Disciplina del sistema radiotelevisivo pubblico e privato, (Broadcasting Act of 6 August 1990, no. 223) and the Disposizioni per la parità di accesso ai mezzi di informazione durante le campagne elettorali e referendarie e per la comunicazione politica (Political Pluralism Act, Act of 22 February 2000, no. 28) and following claims from some Italian political parties, both majority and minority...

On 9 April 2003, the Italian Parliament adopted Legislative Decree n. 68/03, which is aimed at implementing Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (see IRIS 2001-5: 3). The text of the Decree consists of 41 articles and gives effect to the most important modification of the text of the Italian general Law on Copyright (Law n. 633/1941) since its first adoption in 1941 (see also IRIS 1997-1: 11 and IRIS 2000-9: 15). The aim of the Decree is basically to...

On 23 January 2003 the Ministry of Communications and RAI, the Italian public service broadcaster (PSB), signed a new Contract of Service valid for the period 2003-2005. The Contract has to be renewed every three years according to a Convention binding both parties and signed in 1994, and has to lay down the public service broadcasting duties of the PSB. In particular, it concerns radio, television broadcasting and multimedia services, editorial content, technological services for the production and transmission of signals, financial management, auditing and monitoring systems and criteria for...

The Albanian Parliament has ratified the Agreement of cinematographic co-production between the Government of the Republic of Albania and the Italian Government, being the first agreement the Albanian Government signed in this field. According to the Agreement, the financial contribution of both countries for state-aided films shall be approximately at a rate of 20% - 80%. Thereby all categories of cinematographic production, including fiction, cartoons and documentary films, are suitable for financing. The competent state authorities from both countries will have to approve the proposed projects...

On 29 November 2002, Italian public and private broadcasters signed a self-regulatory Code of Conduct and presented it to the Ministry for Communications in order to provide adequate protection for under-age viewers and to actively limit minors' exposure to harmful content on television. The Code, called Codice di autoregolamentazione TV e Minori' (Self- regulatory code of conduct on television and minors) is a provisional instrument, which will be applied until extensive legislation on this matter is adopted. The main objective of the Code is to protect minors from manipulative advertising and...