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On 8 October 2001 a new Regulation on advertising and teleshopping adopted on 25 July by the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority) pursuant to the Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (the Communications Act) of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (see IRIS 1997-8: 10), will enter into force. The Regulation represents the final step of a procedure begun on 10 March 2000 with the launch of a public consultation (see IRIS 2000-9: 10). It applies to all radio and television broadcasters,...

The Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority) has, after careful deliberation, and as published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica (Official Journal of Italy) of 3 May 2001, adopted a list of all the official dispositions aiming to regulate the concession of authorisation and licences for satellite services. The aim of the document is to set out a whole list of obligations and conditions which have to be met in order to apply for a satellite service concession. Among these is the obligation on operators to respect all impositions and limits set by the...

From 11 April to 8 May 2001, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Italian Communications Authority) conducted a public consultation on the regulation concerning the licensing of digital terrestrial radio and television broadcasting. Pursuant to article 2bis, para. 7, of Law No. 66/2001 (Conversione in legge, con modificazioni, del decreto-legge 23 gennaio 2001, n. 5, recante disposizioni urgenti per il differimento di termini in materia di trasmissioni radiotelevisive analogiche e digitali, nonché per il risanamento di impianti radiotelevisivi, Legge of 20 March 2001, no. 66, in the...

On 7 March 2001, the Italian Parliament approved Act no. 62 on Publishing (Nuove norme sull'editoria e sui prodotti editoriali e modifiche alla legge 5 agosto 1981, n. 416). After long discussions on the Government's draft law (see IRIS 2000-7: 13) by the Camera dei Deputati (Chamber of Deputies) on 7 February 2001 and by the Senato della Repubblica (Senate), the law was eventually adopted on 21 February. It updates the twenty-year-old Publishing Act of 1981 (Disciplina delle imprese editrici e provvidneze per l'editoria, Legge of 5 August 1981, no. 416, in Gazzetta Ufficiale of 6 August 1981,...

On 20 March 2001, the Italian Parliament converted decreto-legge (decree-law) no. 5/2001, which contains urgent provisions on local radio and television broadcasting, into Act no. 66/2001 (Conversione in legge, con modificazioni, del decreto-legge 23 gennaio 2001, n. 5, recante disposizioni urgenti per il differimento di termini in materia di trasmissioni radiotelevisive analogiche e digitali, nonché per il risanamento di impianti radiotelevisivi, Legge of 20 March 2001, no. 66). In addition to the provisions already laid down by the decree-law (see IRIS 2001-2: 9), Act no. 66/2001 introduces a...