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The Italian Parliament has recently adopted the new Legge comunitaria, a general statute aimed to insure, every year, that Italian Law is consistent with Community Law. The statute includes two articles concerning copyright law. In Article 16 the Parliament enables the Government with the power to adopt "delegated decrees" aimed at implementing Council Directive 93/83 on satellite and cable broadcasting, and also indicates some criteria that the Government has to follow. The Directive will be considered as transposed only after the enactement of the above mentioned decrees. Much more important...

A consumer association in Milan, the Comitato Difesa Consumatori , sued the Garante per l'Editoria e la Radiodiffusione before the Administrative Tribunal in Rome. The Garante is the administrative body entrusted by law with the task of monitoring the respect by public and private broadcasters of the rules concerning, inter alia, advertising and sponsoring on public and private channels. Some months ago, the Comitato filed a complaint before the Garante seeking its intervention against some advertising practices deemed not to be allowed by the EC `Television without Frontiers' Directive (89/552/EEC)...

By Presidential Decree of 23 December 1995, the Italian Council of Ministers introduced some important modifications on the rules governing access to pay TV broadcasting. According to the previous law, only two channels were allowed to broadcast in an encrypted fomat, namely Tele+1 and Tele+2, both partly owned by foreign investors (Kirch and Murdoch) and partly by Italian companies (Berluscon's Fininvest holds a 10% share). The new Decree gives all the other Italian private commercial broadcasters the possibility to broadcast in an encrypted format. In order to do this, they must obtain an authorisation...

The Law of 30 May 1995 amends the terms of the decree of 29 March 1995 on "the reorganisation of areas of jurisdiction with regard to Tourism, Sport and Entertainment." These responsibilities previously came under the responsibility of the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment, which disappeared following the 1993 referendum, and will now be taken over by the Regions, under State supervision and control. The law also streamlines procedures for distribution of State-aided funds for cinematographic production. There will now be eight Boards of Censorship for television broadcasting between 7am and...

The Heads of State and Government of seven major industrialized nations and the President of the European Commission, have met in Halifax for their 21st annual Summit. They announced that they were committed to the successful completion of current negociations in services sectors and, in particular, significant liberalization in financial and telecommunications services. They will proceed with follow-up work foreseen in the Uruguay Round Final Act. They encourage work in areas such as technical standards, intellectual property; an immediate priority is the negotiation in the OECD of a high standard...