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The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) received an application from a television channel on the admissibility of referrals to the pages dedicated to its programmes on a number of social network sites under the regulations on advertising. Indeed happens frequently that a television channel or radio station refers viewers or listeners to the pages devoted to its programmes on a number of social networks including Facebook, or invites them to react on the Twitter social network. In a decision adopted on 12 April but not made public until 27 May, the CSA replied...

The Republic of Cyprus is only days away from the digital switch-over on 1 July 2011 and is completing all necessary measures for a smooth transfer. Amendments of the Act on Radio and Television Stations L. 7(I)/1998 (Ο περί Ραδιοφωνικών και Τηλεοπτικών Σταθμών Νόμος), voted on by the House of Representatives in mid-April, providing for the procedures that radio and television organisations should follow in order to continue operation in the new environment. The amendments adopted were of a much narrower scope than those proposed in the draft Law (see IRIS 2011-5/11); in view of the urgent need...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) published on 18 April 2011 its Annual Report for the year 2010 (see inter alia IRIS 2010-1/38 and IRIS 2010-9/34). The CNA awarded in 2010 a total of 102 audiovisual licenses (four for radio, 17 for television and 81 for electronic communications networks), 40 audiovisual licenses were extended (35 for radio, five for television) and 57 transferred. In 2010 the Council imposed 388 sanctions, including 142 fines, for audiovisual legislation infringements. The sanctions amount to RON 1,923,000 (EUR 456,800). The...

On 11 April 2011 the new Portuguese television act (see IRIS 2011-4/30) was published in the official news bulletin, the Diário da República, after receiving parliamentary approval last February. The new act transposes the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Directive no. 2007/65/CE - AVMSD) and introduces amendments to previous national laws, namely the Television Act no. 27/2007, the Publicity Code and the Act that restructures the radio and television public service broadcasters (Law no. 8/2007). Some of the main changes in this sector are related to media ownership and advertising. The...

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...