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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...

Following the issue of the Presidential writ that general elections will be held on 8 March 2008, together with local council elections for 23 localities in Malta and Gozo, the Broadcasting Authority issued a Directive governing programmes and advertisements broadcast between 11 February and 8 March 2008. This Directive, which came into force on 11 February 2008, requires all radio and television stations to submit their programme schedules for approval to the Broadcasting Authority so that the latter would be in a position to ensure that during the electoral campaign periods all political parties...