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The Council of the Radio and Television of Montenegro and the councils of local PSB have adopted the Terms and Conditions for the Presentation of Candidates and their Programmes for the forthcoming extraordinary parliamentary elections, scheduled for 29 March 2009. According to the Broadcasting Law they were obliged to adopt and publish the terms and conditions of the representation of political parties, candidates and their respective programmes, not later than 15 days after the elections have been scheduled. The due date for publishing was 10 February 2009 and they are available on the website...

In December 2008, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) rejected a proposed radio advertisement for Veritas. Veritas is a religious publisher and retailer wholly owned by the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference. The advertisement for products available in Veritas shops and on their website was due to be broadcast over the Christmas period on RTÉ, the national public service broadcaster. The BCI found that the advertisement did not comply with the legislation and regulation regarding advertising directed towards a religious end, specifically section 65 of the Broadcasting Act, 2001 and section...

The BBC Trust has decided not to overrule the decision of the Corporation’s Director-General refusing to broadcast an appeal from the Disasters Emergency Committee (representing 13 leading UK aid agencies) seeking donations for humanitarian relief for the residents of Gaza. The appeal was broadcast by the other public service broadcasters (though not by Sky). The Director-General had argued that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deeply divisive and that the suffering of civilians plays a central part in the political case each side makes in the “court of world opinion”. It was thus impossible...

The Act “on audiovisual communication and the new public television service” and the Implementing Act on the appointment of the chairmen of the public-sector audiovisual companies were gazetted on 7 March 2009. A few days earlier, the Constitutional Council, in response to an application by opposition MPs, had validated all the key measures of the reform, including the abolition of advertising on the public-sector channels, their financing, and - more controversially - the appointment of the chairmen of the public-sector audiovisual companies (France Télévisions, Radio France and the company responsible...

The Media Commission of the Flemish Parliament has accepted an important modification to the draft of the new Media Decree (see IRIS 2009-2: 8). In pursuance of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of TV Vest SA and Rogaland Pensjonistparti v Norway (see IRIS 2009-3: 2), the Commission has approved a provision allowing paid political advertising on radio and television in pre-election time (Article 47). The provision’s viability, however, depends on a double condition: approval in the plenary session of the Flemish Parliament and modification of the federal law on election expenditure...