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Romania’s Audiovisual Law could be changed, according to a Draft on the amendment and completion of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002) proposed mid-February 2011 by four deputies of the Democrat-Liberal Party, the major component of the ruling coalition (see inter alia IRIS 2009-2/29, IRIS 2010-1/36 and IRIS 2010-9/34). The Draft, which was withdrawn, corrected and proposed again in less than ten days, is mainly intended to merge the existing Audiovisual Law with most of the provisions of the Audiovisual Content Regulatory Code (Decision no. 187/2006 - Audiovisual...

On 4 February 2011, the Portuguese Parliament approved a new television law. The Socialist Party (PS) voted in favour of the new law, while both the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the right wing Christian Democrats CDS-PPs abstained. The decree, called Decreto nº 76/XI, derives from the Proposta de Lei n.º 29/XI/1. ª (Bill no. 29/XI), which was previously approved by the Parliamentary Commission on Ethics, Society and Culture (13ª Comissão de Ética, Sociedade e Cultura). The new Television Law transposes the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Directive no. 2007/65/CE - AVMSD) and makes...

As a consequence of the changes made to the Electronic Media Law on 17 December 2010 in Luxembourg (see IRIS 2011-2/31), several executing regulations were amended on the same day (see IRIS 2011-4/28). The modifications to the regulations are predominantly editorial as a result of the adaptation of the wording of the Luxembourg Electronic Media Law to the EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. The following two regulations refer to the licensing procedure for programmes disseminated by cable or satellite respectively and their wordings are modified by replacing the term “programme” with...

On 17 of December 2010 a package of legislation specific to the media was enacted in Luxembourg. In addition to the modifications made to the Law on Electronic Media (see IRIS 2011-2/31) which transposes the EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, several regulations have been amended in parallel (see IRIS 2011-4/29). The amendments principally aim at bringing the executing regulations into line with the new version of the Electronic Media Law of 2010 (see IRIS 2011-2/31). The two regulations on the promotion of European works and on commercial communication have, however, been changed...

According to a decision of 13 January 2011 (case no. I ZR 22/09), the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) will, in a request for a preliminary ruling, submit a number of questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) concerning the interpretation of the concept of “health claim” in the sense of Article 2(2)(5) of Regulation (EC) No. 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (“Health Claims Regulation”). The decision follows a case concerning advertising for a herbal liqueur containing 27% alcohol with the words "wohltuend und bekömmlich” (beneficial and agreeable)....