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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) fined on 4 and 9 November 2010 several Romanian commercial TV stations and issued public warnings for others due to the violation of audiovisual laws with regard to the media coverage of sensitive cases and to the observance of advertising rules (see inter alia IRIS 2010-10/38, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2010-7/33, IRIS 2010-1/38). Pro TV and Antena 1 were imposed a fine of RON 20,000 (EUR 4,650) each, Kanal D of RON 5,000 (EUR 1,165), Antena 2 and OTV received public warnings because of breaches of the Audiovisual...

On 18 October 2010 the amendments of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public came into force. These are mainly related to the transposition and implementation of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. The adopted amendments stipulate some changes in the scope of the activities of the Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania. The amended Law envisages that, as before, it will be the Radio and Television Commission’s prerogative to grant licences for broadcasting and re-broadcasting activities as well as to control the licensed activities. However, the Licensing Rules, which determine...

Through the recent adoption of Presidential Decree 109/05.11.2010, Directive 2007/65/EC (currently the codifying Directive 2010/13/EC) was incorporated into the Greek legal order. The provisions of the Decree generally follow the flexible EU framework concerning both television broadcasts and on-demand services. However, the Greek legislator has established stricter rules on several issues relating to the protection of viewers, especially minors. First of all, a general rule applicable to all media, linear or not, is established, dictating respect for the personality, in the broader sense, of the...

Ofcom, the UK Communications Regulator, has issued guidance on whether the holders of broadcasting licences need separate licences for different feeds (versions) of a service, for example feeds broadcast in different territories. In particular, the document concerns feeds where the programmes are almost identical but in different languages, feeds where the editorial content is almost identical but advertisements are different or differently scheduled or where editorial content of each feed is different. The Communications Act 2003 defines ‘programmes’ in a way which includes advertisements (s....

The arrival of the Internet on the television screen has been a source of much debate for some months already. In the United States, Google has launched a Google TV box and has joined forces with Sony for connecting it directly to television sets. Similarly, Apple TV - hosted in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - offers exclusive access to films and series distributed on iTunes, while Eurosport is working with Panasonic to broadcast sports events on catch-up TV. At present the television channels obtain authorisation to broadcast from the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory...