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With two decisions delivered on 30 December 2010, the Conseil d’Etat rejected the requests made by M6 for the cancellation of the decisions adopted by the Autorité de la Concurrence (competition authority) and the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) authorising the acquisition by TF1 of the entire capital of the AB Group, in order to gain control of the terrestrially broadcast digital channels TMC and NT1. On 16 January 2010, the competition authority had validated this concentration operation, on condition that the parties made a number of undertakings, required...

In December 2010 two new legal Acts in the media field were adopted by the Estonian Parliament. First, the Media Services Act replaces the old Broadcasting Act and reconciles Estonian media regulation with the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). Following the spirit of the AVMSD, the Media Services Act in principle takes a more liberal approach to advertising restrictions, while the broadcasting licensing procedure is also simplified. Regarding media regulation, the Media Act encourages a self-regulation model. Only if self-regulation fails, are executive powers invited to exercise their...

Cyprus amended its Law on Radio and Television Stations (L. 7(I)/1998) and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation Law (Ch. 300A) and harmonised the Republic's legislation with the European Directive 2010/13/EU on Audiovisual Media Services - codified version. The amending laws were published in the Official Gazette on 10 December 2010. Extensive amendments to various sections of the Law on Radio and Television Stations aimed at updating it in order to cover the broadcasting and audiovisual landscape, regulating not only the broadcasting sector but also Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. The terminology...

Until recently, advertising for political parties was banned on audiovisual media services in the French-speaking Community of Belgium. The first sentence of the first paragraph of Article 12 of the Decree by the French-speaking Community of 27 February 2003 on broadcasting (which has since become the Decree of 26 March 2009 on audiovisual media services) provides that “neither political parties nor organisations representative of employers and workers may be the subject of commercial communication”. This provision was cancelled by the Constitutional Court on 22 December 2010 in response to an...

In three recent decisions, the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Regulator for the Media - monitoring and enforcement of media regulation) addressed the three major Flemish broadcasters for breach of the advertising regulation. The first decision (18 October 2010) concerned the illegitimate transmission of a television advertisement. On the broadcasting programme VT4, a single spot was shown that featured the presenters holding a party, all of them drinking “Martini Brut”. The bottles and the logo were prominently displayed and, at the end of the programme, a voice-over stated “Beleef een...