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On 14 January 2009 a proposal for amendments to the Act No. 147/2001 Coll. on Advertisements and on the Amendments to Certain Acts (which entered into force on 1 May 2001) concerning the ban of alcohol advertising was made by members of the Slovakian Parliament. The amendment which is at the moment in the second reading is expected to come into effect on 1 June 2009. The reason for this proposal is the fact that alcoholism is becoming a serious and acute problem in society nowadays, particularly in the case of children and minors. Its explanatory report refers to the fact that the age of people...

In Decision no. 391 of 26 March 2009 on the rules governing the audiovisual campaign (8 May to 6 June 2009) for the election of members of the European Parliament, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media - CNA) laid down a code of conduct for Romanian broadcasters. All political parties, political alliances, electoral pacts, organisations representing ethnic minorities and independent candidates involved in the election are categorised in the Decision as competitori electorali (election participants). According to Art. 2, they must be given access to certain...

On 15 April 2009, the Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Authority issued Circular No. 8 of 2009 to all broadcasting stations informing them of the approval by the Authority of the “Directive on Programmes and Advertisements Broadcast During the Period 4 May to 6 June 2009”. This Directive has been issued in conjunction with the elections for the European Union Parliament to be held in Malta on 6 June 2009. Five MEPs are expected to be elected to represent Malta in the EU Parliament. In the circular it is stated that the Authority has decided that, in the case of a breach of this Directive, no...

The Law on Funding of Political Parties and Political Campaigns, and the Control of Funding (see IRIS 2008-8: 15) envisages that political advertising and its sources of funding shall be identified and adequately separated from the rest of the disseminated information. Following the provisions of the Law, the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the Radio and TV Commission of Lithuania approved the Order of Identification of Political Advertising in Radio and TV Programmes in March 2009. The Order seeks to determine the necessary requirements for the identification of political advertising in...

In April the Gazdasági Versenyhivatal (Hungarian Competition Authority - GVH) finalised and published its report examining competition on the Hungarian media markets. The basis of the report was a general sector inquiry launched by the authority on 24 July 2007. Its subject was TV broadcasting in Hungary as a whole. The GVH named three factors as reasons for initiating such a review: - the obvious disproportionality between the audience share of the two national commercial TV channels RTL-Klub and TV2 (together approx. 60 %) and their share on the TV advertising market (together approx. 90 %)...