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In a ruling of 15 February 2008, the Verwaltungsgericht Neustadt (Neustadt Administrative Court) upheld the decision of the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate State Media and Communications Agency - LMK), according to which the live programme " Jetzt geht’s um die Eier – Die große Promi-Oster-Show ", broadcast on 8 April 2006 on Sat.1, had violated the ban on surreptitious advertising, set out in Art. 1 para. 2 of the Landesmediengesetz (Land media act) in connection with Art. 7 para. 6 sentence 1 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Broadcasting...

On 25 February, the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority imposed a fine of EUR 580 on the national broadcaster TV3 for the violation of provisions of the Law on Alcohol Control. The reason for the fine on TV3 was a live broadcast of a basketball match on 9 January 2008 at 7 p.m. The Law on Alcohol Control prohibits alcohol advertisements with the participation of athletes and provides watershed hours for alcohol advertising from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. TV3 was deemed to have violated the mentioned provisions of the Law by showing basketball players wearing T-shirts with logos of the famous and...

Having announced the probable abolition of advertising on public service channels (see IRIS 2008-2: 12), the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has decided to create a commission to develop a new model of public service television. Commission members will include parliamentarians and professionals in the sector, and it will be chaired by Jean-François Copé. Its purpose will be to “propose a new identity for the public sector audiovisual scene in the digital age, and make proposals enabling the Government to draw up the new list of missions and specifications for the France Télévisions group. It will...

This survey is based on the reports and the available data of the four regulatory and/or inspecting bodies for the period of one year. It includes all complaints related to contents, which might (seriously) impair the physical, mental and moral development of minors directly via the Internet or via mobile phones, via broadcasting and advertising in the audiovisual sector, as well as via advertising for Internet content in print. The report of the Inspectorate for Culture and Media includes a complaint that questioned gratuitous violence content in a broadcast, and another complaint against the...

On 3 December 2007 Kammarrätten i Stockholm (The Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals) judged in a case regarding improper favouring of a commercial interest in a sponsoring message. The case concerned the application of provisions in the Radio- och TV-lagen (The Radio and TV Act – RTL). The RTL transposes into Swedish law the “Television without Frontiers” Directive 89/552/EEC, amended by Directive 97/36/EC. The programmes in question were two episodes of a Swedish TV-series broadcast by the Swedish nationwide television channel TV 4 on 2 October 2007 and 9 October 2007 respectively. During...