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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...

On 24 June 2008, the government of Luxembourg enacted the Règlement grand-ducal portant modification du règlement grand-ducal du 5 avril 2001 fixant les règles applicables en matière de publicité, de parrainage, de télé-achat et d’autopromotion dans les programmes de télévision réputés relever de la compétence du Luxembourg conformément à la directive européenne modifiée « Télévision sans frontières » (Regulation on Advertising, Sponsorship, Teleshopping and Self-promotion of 24 June 2008, Regulation 2008) amending the Règlement grand-ducal du 5 avril 2001 fixant les règles applicables en matière...

On 26 May 2008, the Kammarrätten i Stockholm (the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals) issued a judgment on a case involving the unlawful broadcasting of advertisements. The case concerned the application of provisions included in Radio-och TV-lagen (The Radio and TV Act – RTL). The RTL is based on the TWF Directive 89/552/ECC, as amended by Directive 97/36/EC. On 25 April 2006, the Swedish nationwide television channel TV4 broadcast an interview with the very famous, at least in Sweden, artist Carola Häggkvist. In the middle of the interview, a commercial break was inserted. The break was...