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In a decision published on 18 October 2010, the Austrian broadcasting authority, the Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Senate - BKS), declared its position on the difference between an advertising spot and a public information broadcast. The procedure followed a complaint about the broadcast of a 20-second spot by the Austrian workers’ association on Österreichische Rundfunk (Austrian public broadcaster - ORF), which labelled it as a “public information broadcast”. In the spot, the workers’ association dealt with some topical political themes and criticised possible tax reforms...

The Slovenian Ministry of Culture has prepared the new Zakon o medijih (Media Law) and released it for public discussion on 28 July 2010. The discussion, which ended on 20 September 2010, was quite challenging and caused a mass movement of Slovenian musicians and journalists. Slovenian journalists raised their voices in spring this year because they were not satisfied with the current regulation of Slovenian media because, in their view, it does not protect the freedom and autonomy of journalists to a satisfactory extent. They noticed that the interests of profit and the market would no longer...

The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) was asked by the Government for its opinion on the draft Decree on on-demand audiovisual media services (AVMSs); it has now delivered a negative opinion, something it has not done since the beginning of the 1990s. Adopted in application of the Act of 5 March 2009 transposing the AVSM Directive into French law, the aim of the draft decree is to create a specific scheme for on-demand AVMSs (catch-up TV, VoD accessible by subscription or for individual videos), supporting production and promoting European works and works originally...

In October 2009, Schweizer Fernsehen SF 1, a German-language channel operated by the Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Swiss radio and television corporation - SRG) reported on the controversial referendum poster used by supporters of the petition for a referendum concerning a ban on the construction of minarets. A two-minute report in the “Tagesschau” news programme sought the views of municipal authorities and the Eidgenössische Kommission gegen Rassismus (Swiss anti-racism commission - EKR) on the controversial poster. A report lasting more than four minutes in the “10vor10” current...

On 21 September 2010, the Belgian Jury voor Ethische Praktijken inzake Reclame (Jury for Ethical Practices Concerning Advertising) issued a decision on a complaint, lodged by a member of the public, against the Flemish public broadcasting corporation VRT. The Jury is the self-regulatory authority of the advertising and marketing sector in Belgium (for more information, see IRIS 2010-1: 1/9). The VRT had produced and broadcast a television spot promoting the radio programme “All Areas”, which reports live from various music festivals for the public broadcaster’s youth station “Studio Brussel”. The...