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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...

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...