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On 10 June 2008 the LR Seimas (Parliament) adopted amendments to the Law on Financing and Control of Financing of Political Parties and Political Campaigns. The amendments came into force on 21 June 2008. The amendments are mainly concerned with the regulation of the publishing of political advertising in radio and television programmes. The amended law states that broadcasters under Lithuanian jurisdiction shall refrain from broadcasting video and audio advertising clips and films about political parties in their radio and television programmes. Furthermore, the provisions of the law forbid free...

The BBC trust has found breaches of editorial guidelines and weaknesses in fair trading rules in relation to the sponsorship of BBC-organised events. As a result, the BBC management has decided to end such sponsorship. The BBC does not carry any advertising in its public service broadcasting nor may its programmes be sponsored. However, it has permitted commercial sponsorship of BBC events, notably “Sports Personality of the Year”, and its website offered “rights packages” for such events. After the December 2007 broadcast of this programme, its commercial rival ITV and the organisation representing...

On 17 June 2008, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (national audiovisual regulatory authority – CSA) published a deliberation on the exposure of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs on the airwaves. Faced with the increased presence of tobacco, drugs and alcohol on television and radio, the CSA, as part of its mission to preserve public health and with the support of the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre la Drogue et la Toxicomanie (inter-ministerial mission to combat drugs and drug addiction – MILDT), has laid down the conditions for representing these substances...

After years of claims made by the private channels, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (national audiovisual regulatory authority – CSA) has now put an end to the monopoly on cross promotion held by France Télévisions in accordance with its specifications. In its decision of 22 July 2008, the CSA now authorises French private editors to cross-promote television channels, both free and pay channels, belonging to the same group. For years the private channels have been claiming the right to be able to promote the programmes of their affiliated channels on their channels, as France Télévisions...

In a ruling of 26 May 2008, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court – VG) rejected an application by the TV broadcaster ProSieben for interim legal protection against an objection lodged by the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg media authority - mabb) concerning an infomercial. At the start of the broadcast on 30 November 2007, the programme was labelled as a " Dauerwerbesendung " (infomercial) and, during the broadcast, as " Q.-Promotion ". The mabb complained that this breached the programme labelling obligation set out in Art. 7 para. 5 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag...