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The Act designed to open up to competition and regulate the on-line gaming sector adopted on 6 April 2010 was gazetted on 13 May 2010, after validation by the Constitutional Council, thereby achieving the French Government’s aim of allowing the market to be liberalised before the start of the football World Cup. The Act is intended to open up the market for on-line gaming (betting on sporting events, betting on horse racing, and poker) in a regulated fashion by authorising, through the new authority regulating on-line gaming (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux en Ligne - ARJEL), operators who will...

On 8 June 2010, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) confirmed the decision taken by the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office - BKartA) in 2006 to ban the merger between Axel Springer AG and TV broadcaster ProSiebenSat1. The BKartA had prohibited the planned merger due to concerns about competition (see IRIS 2006-4: 10/16). Springer's appeal against this decision was initially rejected by the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Regional Appeal Court - OLG) as inadmissible. Springer successfully appealed to the BGH against this ruling and the matter was referred back to the...

On 26 April 2010, the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Regulator for the Media - monitoring and enforcement of media regulation) again addressed the public broadcasting corporation VRT for breach of the regulation on product placement. The violation once again occurred in the Sunday morning information programme ‘De Zevende Dag’ (freely translated, ‘The Seventh Day’) (see “Public Broadcaster, Shocking Images, and Product Placement”, see IRIS 2010-5: 1/9). A report focusing exclusively on the opening of the new restaurant ‘Kwint’ in Brussels and lasting approximately three minutes was broadcast...

On 30 April 2010 the Provisional Government of the Kyrgyz Republic adopted a Decree on establishing the Public TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic, which entered into force immediately. The Provisional Government by its own decree No. 1 of 7 April 2010 took upon itself the power of the parliament and the president of the republic, thus its decrees can be considered as national statute law. The Decree of 30 April ordered the transformation of the State-run National TV and Radio Corporation into the “Public TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation of the Kyrgyz Republic” (PBC)....

On 20 April 2010 the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) published the summary of the consultation it had embarked on in June 2009 concerning the regulation of on-demand audiovisual media services. The text lays down general guidelines, with details of interactive applications and the associated data for television and radio services, the procedures for authorising the new services, and interactive advertising. One of the topics concerns catch-up TV and the way it is made available to the public. To promote its development, the CSA has decided to authorise the...