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On 19 December 2011, Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Media Regulator - VRM) decided that the public broadcaster VRT infringed the rules on commercial communication (Art. 53 Mediadecreet (Flemish Broadcasting Act)) when referring to Jupiler Pro League (the Belgian national football league) during the sports programme Extra Time. Every Monday evening, the programme Extra Time is broadcast on Canvas, a channel of the Flemish public broadcaster. Usually, this programme contains an analysis of each match day of Jupiler Pro League. However, on 10 October 2011, this programme was exceptionally...

On 27 December 2011, the Austrian Federal Gazette announced the 125. Bundesgesetz (125th Federal Act - MedKF-TG) enacting a Bundesverfassungsgesetz über die Transparenz von Medienkooperationen und Werbeaufträgen und Förderungen an Medieninhaber eines periodischen Mediums (Federal Constitutional Act on the transparency of media cooperation, advertising orders and support for owners of periodical media) and amending the KommAustria-Gesetz (KommAustria Act). The MedKF-TG is particularly aimed at creating greater transparency in media announcements by the government or other public bodies. To this...

The National Council of Radio and Television (NCRT) made two decisions regarding the broadcasting of an advertising spot and a music video clip. On 31 January 2012, the NCRT advised against the broadcasting of the video clip “High” by Babastars, broadcast by local music TV stations. The video shows a field full of plants of a narcotic nature and the text of the song favours consuming this substance and casts a favourable light upon this habit, according to the NCRT. The NCRT examined the content of the video as a result of numerous complaints lodged by citizens to the Council. According to the...

On 19 October 2011, the Act on Audiovisual Media Services (Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah - ZAvMS) was adopted and entered into force on 17 November 2011. As described in previous IRIS issues, its adoption was crucial due to the infringement procedure against Slovenia, started earlier in 2011 by the European Commission for non-transposition of the Directive in due delay (see IRIS 2011-8/42). Despite the fact that Slovenia notified to the Commission a complete transposition of the AVMSD on 21 November 2011, the infringement procedure remains pending, as the Commission needs to analyse...

On 14 December 2011 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued sanctions on several Romanian television broadcasters for breaching the audiovisual rules with regard to the limits of advertising (see inter alia IRIS 2010-1/38, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2011-1/44 and IRIS 2011-6/31). The Romanian public broadcaster TVR received a public warning and the commercial television stations Antena 1, PRO TV, Prima TV and KANAL D were fined RON 100,000 (EUR 23,040) each for breaches of Art. 35 (1) of Legea audiovizualului nr. 504/2002, cu modificările şi completările...