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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...

The Macedonian Parliament amended the Law on Broadcasting in order to ensure a stable financing of the Public Broadcasting Service, Macedonian Radio and Television (MRT), which has been suffering from underfunding for years. The amendments proposed by the Government envisage an increase of the broadcasting fee from MKD 120 per month (EUR 2) to MKD 190 (EUR 3). Another measure planned in the Government’s proposal is an increase of the advertising limits for the PBS from 4 to 12 minutes per real programme hour including the prime time, which was until now reserved only for advertising broadcast by...

The Government of Gibraltar has made regulations transposing the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into the Law of Gibraltar. This follows a reasoned opinion from the Commission at the end of 2011 requesting the UK Government to secure such implementation; Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory that governs its own internal affairs, with some matters - such as foreign relations - remaining the responsibility of the UK Government. The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations, made under the Interpretation and General Clauses Act, took effect on 20 October 2011. They state that they apply to...