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On 15 April 2011 the Icelandic Parliament adopted a new media act, marking an end to a seven-year long struggle to have such an act enacted. In 2004 the President had vetoed a media law that foresaw ownership restrictions. Since then many different versions of media law bills have been presented in Parliament, but with no result until now. The Act implements the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. It includes many other important changes to the existing legal framework for the media. The Act replaces the 2000 broadcasting act, as well as the 1956 press act. It introduces an obligation for all...

Drawing conclusions from the first year of the application of the Act of 12 May 2010 organising an opening up of competition for online gambling, and taking documented practice into consideration, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) has issued a new recommendation on the conditions for radio and television stations broadcast of advertising for operators of gambling and games of chance. Article 7 of the Act of 12 May 2010 leaves the CSA the job of determining the conditions for broadcasting advertising, sponsoring, and product placement in favour of operators...

The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) sent a “serious warning” to the channel Canal+ Sport further to the repeat showing on 8 November 2010, between 12 noon and 6 p.m., of the broadcast of a tennis match during which the name of a brand of beer appeared 195 times for an aggregate time of 24 minutes, 34 seconds, contrary to the ban on all advertising or promotion of alcoholic beverages provided for in Article L. 3323-2 of the Public Health Code and Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992. The CSA also found fault with the channel that the bank partnering the...

At a special conference held on 6 April 2011, the Prime Ministers of the Länder approved the draft amendment to the Glücksspielstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Gambling Agreement - GlüStV), which is currently valid until the end of 2011. A key aspect of the draft is an experimental clause, valid initially for seven years, under which seven national sports betting licences will be granted. The extent to which the objectives of the licensing system have been achieved will be evaluated five years after it comes into force. The licence fee will be 16.66% of all stakes. Licence-holders must undertake not...

On 11 April 2011, the Regulatorna agencija za komunikacije (Communications Regulatory Agency) launched a public consultation on several revised regulatory documents, most prominent of which are the Draft Code on Audiovisual Commercial Communications and Commercial Communications in Radio Media Services and the Draft Code on Audiovisual and Radio Media Content. The revision principally aims at bringing the existing regulation into line with the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). A two-tiered approach to the regulation of audiovisual media content has been established. In addition,...