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Approximately one year after the self-regulatory Code of Advertising and Sales Promotion was adopted by the Italian Committee of Advertising Practice (see IRIS 1999-6: 13), the Decreto legislativo Attuazione della direttiva 97/55/CE che modifica la direttiva 84/450/CEE, in materia di pubblicità ingannevole e comparativa (Statutory Instrument on Comparative and Misleading Advertising) of 25 February 2000 entered into force. With this decree Italy transposes Directive 97/55/EC, amending Directive 84/450/EEC concerning misleading advertising so as to include comparative advertising. Comparative advertising...

Pursuant to the Communications Act of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo, see IRIS 1997-8: 10) on 1 March 2000 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority -AGC) adopted the regolamento concernente la diffusione via satellite di programmi televisivi (regulation no. 127/00/CONS concerning satellite television broadcasting). The Regulation applies to: 1) Italian broadcasters whose programmes are received in States Parties to the European Convention...

On 28 January 2000 the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (the Italian Competition Authority) deliberated upon the closing of the preliminary inquiry initiated against the former Italian telecom monopolist, Telecom Italia. The inquiry was opened at the instigation of the Italian Association of Internet Providers ("AIIP"). The AIIP originally accused Telecom of having abused its dominant position on the Internetmarket primarily by way of adopting extremely low prices in order to cut off other competitors. Telecom also allegedly distorted competition by adopting discriminatory conditions...

On 11 January 2000 new provisions concerning the public financing of theatre, music and cinema entered into force (Interventi straordinari nel settore dei beni e delle attività culturali, Legge no. 513 of 21 December 1999, in Gazzetta Ufficiale 2000, 7). Further financing is provided for the realisation of audiovisual projects through agreements between museums and schools with special regard to handicapped pupils.

On 22 February 2000 the Italian Parliament finally reached an agreement and approved new provisions on access to the mass media with regard to political and electoral communication (Disposizioni per la parità di accesso ai mezzi di informazione durante le campagne elettorali e referendarie e per la comunicazione politica, Legge of 22 February 2000, no. 28, in Gazzetta Ufficiale 2000, 43). The scope of the Act, as defined in Article 1, ranges from political information to electoral campaigns and replaces several provisions laid down by the Elections Act (Disciplina delle campagne elettorali per...