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This case concerns a complaint by a broadcasting company regarding a number of decisions by the Cyprus Radio and Television Authority (CRTA) imposing fines on the company for violations of legislation concerning radio and television programmes in its broadcasts and the alleged unfairness of the related domestic proceedings. The breaches found by the CRTA concerned advertisements for children’s toys; the duration of advertising breaks; the placement of sponsors’ names during news programmes; product placement in a comedy series; news programmes that lacked objectivity or contained material...

On 12 May 2011 Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen (The Supreme Administrative Court) delivered a judgment in a case regarding the placement of commercial breaks in six episodes featuring the famous private investigator Poirot. The TV programmes had appeared on the Swedish nationwide television channel TV4. The key issue in the case was whether the Poirot episodes (eight in total, but only six were subject to scrutiny), each of them about 1,5 hours long, constituted a TV series or movies made for television under the Radio and Televisions Act (RTL). Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (the Swedish Broadcasting...

On 3 May 2011 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued Instruction No. 1 concerning the broadcasting of non-commercial messages. The Audiovisual Code (see IRIS 2010-9/34, IRIS 2011-4/31 and IRIS 2011-5/38), adopted by CNA-Decision no. 220/2011, allows in Section 10 the broadcasting of non-commercial messages, which are not included in the legal maximum time of advertising (8 minutes/hour for public stations, 12 minutes/hour for commercial stations). This exclusion from the advertising time applies only to three categories of messages mentioned...

The Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian National Communications Authority - AGCOM) has published a number of press releases and official statements stating the conditions that the media need to follow in order to preserve media pluralism. Italy is currently in the throes of elections, as the provincial and municipal elections were held on the 15 and 16 of May, while a Referendum on four matters will also take place on the 12 and 13 of June. AGCOM recalls that equal treatment (par condicio) is mandatory in the run-up to an election. This applies to TV, radio and newspapers...

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has published a revised General Commercial Communications Code and a revised Children’s Commercial Communications Code. The two revised Codes came into effect on Monday, 2 May 2011. The codes replace the BCI General Advertising Code and the BCI Children’s Code respectively (see IRIS 2010-1/30). The codes update the standards that must be met by radio and television advertising, sponsorship, product placement and other forms of commercial communications broadcast within the jurisdiction of the Republic of Ireland. The new codes give legal effect to the...