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The tasks of the Medienrat der deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (Media Council of the German-speaking Community), which is responsible for regulating the audiovisual media in Belgium’s smallest linguistic community, are laid down inter alia in a decree of 27 June 2005. This decree was last amended on 3 December 2009 and is entitled Dekret über die audiovisuellen Mediendienste und die Kinovorstellungen (Decree on Audiovisual Media Services and Cinema Exhibitions). It governs not only the provision of audiovisual media services and of the transmission networks, services and facilities that fall within...

The Norwegian Broadcasting Act has been amended with a regulation requiring pre-consent for new services which Norsk rikskringkasting AS (the Norwegian public service broadcaster - NRK) wants to launch. The procedure requires an application of what is often called a public value test prior to a decision to add any significant new service to the NRK’s public service remit. The amendment was enacted by Parliament on 19 June 2009 along with several other changes (see below), all with effect from 1 January of this year. The EFTA Surveillance Authority has long expressed its dissatisfaction with how...

At its meeting on 5 November 2009, on the basis of a monitoring report drafted by its own experts concerning compliance with legal advertising time restrictions, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media - CNA) sanctioned three private broadcasters for exceeding the legal advertising limit during the observation period (15-22 October 2009, between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.). CNA decision no. 927 imposed a fine of RON 20,000 (EUR 1 = RON 4.3) on TV broadcaster ANTENA 1 for non-compliance with the hourly upper limit for advertising. According to Art. 35 para. 1 of...

On 10 November 2009, Act no. 333/2009, amending Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002, was promulgated by the President. This enacts the Ordonanţa de Urgenţă nr. 181/2008 (Emergency Government Decree no. 181/2008, OUG 181/2008) which modified the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law 504/2002) (see IRIS 2009-3: 18). The amendments aim at implementing Directive 2007/65/EC into Romanian law (see IRIS 2009-2: 17 and IRIS 2009-3: 18) and set up the general framework inter alia for introducing digital radio and TV services for the public. On the one hand the amended Act relaxes the rules on advertisement,...

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) was required by the Broadcasting Act 2001 to draft and review every three years a Children’s Advertising Code. The resulting code came into operation in January 2005 and was reviewed in 2008. In July 2009, BCI published a “Statement of Outcomes”, which documents the process used in undertaking the statutory review and details the BCI’s decisions regarding those parts of the Code that will not be revised and those parts that may be subject to revision following further consultation in 2009 and 2010. The rules contained in the 2005 Code were set out under...