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On 9 August 2011, the Kommission für Zulassung und Aufsicht der Medienanstalten (Media Licensing and Monitoring Commission - ZAK) filed complaints about several cases of unlawful advertising on the channels Sat.1, Sport 1 and the Turkish-language channels Kanal Avrupa and Türkshow. In the ZAK’s opinion, Sat.1 infringed the rules on the separation of advertising and programme material contained in Article 7(3) of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Interstate Broadcasting Agreement - RStV) by broadcasting its own image trailer directly before commercial breaks. The trailer showed a famous female singer running...

On 6 September 2011 the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted amendments to audiovisual legislation that concern advertising and teleshopping in public television programmes and the funding of Czech cinematography. During the transition period from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting the public broadcaster ČT is allowed to broadcast advertising in the amount of 0.75 percent of the daily broadcasting time in the programme of CT 1 and of 0.5 percent in other programmes. A part of the income from this is reserved for the support of the Czech cinematography sector. With regard...

According to media reports, Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian public service broadcaster - ORF) and the Austrian competition authority agreed a compromise on 6 September 2011 in relation to ORF’s culture and information channel (ORF III), and withdrew their respective objections filed with the Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Board - BKS) against a decision of the Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Austrian Communications Authority - KommAustria) of 18 May 2011 (see IRIS 2011-8/12). Under the KommAustria decision, which has therefore entered into force, ORF is prohibited from advertising...

As is now public knowledge, the Austrian Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Board - BKS) wrote to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on 6 July 2011, withdrawing its reference for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC) after the Publikumsrat (Viewers’ Council) of Österreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian public service broadcaster - ORF) had, in turn, withdrawn the complaint it had filed with the BKS against ORF. The original case before the BKS concerned the depiction of a couple dancing from the left to the centre...

Less than two weeks after the rejection of the proposed Media Act (Zakon o medijih - ZMed - 1; see IRIS 2011-2/38 and 2010-10/39) by the Parliament during the first reading on 15 July 2011, the Ministry of Culture prepared a draft Act on Audiovisual Media Services (Zakon o avdiovizualnih medijskih storitvah - ZAMS), aimed at the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive into Slovenian legislation. The preparation of ZAMS was urgent due to the pending infringement procedure started this year by the European Commission, as Slovenia has failed to notify any measures for the implementation...