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At the end of 2009, the Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellery) published for debate an extensive draft amendment to Austrian broadcasting laws. The consultation procedure has since been completed, so the Federal Government can now consider the opinions that have been submitted as it draws up a Government bill. The organisation and remit of the Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Austrian communications authority - KommAustria) are the subject of significant changes. In future, KommAustria will not be subject to directives and will take the form of a collegiate authority. Its role will be extended to...

On 27 December 2009 President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Statute of the Russian Federation “On Amending Federal Statute on State Support for Cinematography of the Russian Federation” ("О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон «О государственной поддержке кинематографии Российской Федерации»") adopted by the State Duma on 23 December 2009. It enters into force on 1 May 2010. The Act makes important changes to the Federal Statute of 22 August 1996 (No. 126-FZ) (see IRIS 1999-2: 11). It introduces an obligatory system of collection of data regarding film exhibition in Russia by establishing...

On 15 December 2009 the National Broadcasting Council adopted an amendment to its Regulation of 3 June 2004 concerning principles of advertising and teleshopping in radio and television programme services. The amendment aims to limit the practice of excessively increasing the volume, as well as the violent, abrupt change of sound levels during radio and television advertising and teleshopping spots in comparison to the programmes preceding the advertising break. Such occurrences infringe the comfort of the reception of programme services by the public and are the reason for many complaints by television...

The year 2009 has been a fruitful year for legislation in the broadcasting scene in Malta. Earlier on in the year, Parliament enacted a law to empower the Maltese Broadcasting Authority to license radio and television satellite services. Currently, the House of Representatives is discussing a Bill to amend the Broadcasting Act to transpose the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS), whilst another Bill has been drawn up - though it has not yet been published - intended, inter alia, to regulate general interest objectives in Maltese Broadcasting Law. The Audiovisual Media Services Directive...

On 17 December 2009, the Italian Government issued a draft legislative decree for the implementation of Directive 2007/65/EC on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMSD). The legal basis for the decree is contained in the Legge comunitaria 2008, the annual statute enacted by the Italian Parliament to bring national law into line with EU law. The legislature afforded the Italian Government wide latitude in transposing the AVMSD, as the Parliament restrained itself to opting in favour of product placement. The Government, in turn, has taken advantage of the leeway granted by the Italian legislature, as...