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As of 1 May 2007, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Media Authority) has repealed its set of policy rules known as the Sportregeling (Sports Regulation). The regulation was applicable to both public and commercial broadcasters and governed advertising practices in the ambit of sports events. The legal basis for this regulation was challenged in 2005 in a dispute before the highest Dutch administrative Court. The Raad van State (Council of State) found the policy rules compatible with the Mediawet (Media Act) but did rule that the Media Authority had erred by applying them too rigorously. Although...

On 2 April 2007, President Kurmanbek Bakiev of the Kyrgyz Republic signed into law the Statute “On the National Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation”, which had been adopted by the Zhogorku Kenesh (parliament) on 8 June 2006. Many observers heralded this act as a major step towards transforming the state broadcasting company into a public service broadcaster. The new act determines the main provisions concerning the legal status of the Corporation, the financial aspects of its activity, and questions of advertising and sponsorship. The Corporation has the legal status of a state agency:...

In the course of its 25th session, the Croatian Parliament discussed the proposed Draft Law Amending the Electronic Media Law. On 20 April 2007, the Parliament reached the decision to adopt the proposal, while any comments, proposals and opinions on the draft should be addressed to the Government, who had prepared the proposal for a final version. The draft regulates the following fundamental issues: - It stipulates that a natural person may also be an electronic media broadcaster; - It deletes the provision explicitly binding electronic publications to the activities of producing and transmitting...

On 23 April 2007, the Assembly of the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (the State Media and Communications Agency - LMK) in Rhineland-Palatinate rejected the appeal of the broadcaster Sat.1 against the objection raised in respect of a violation of the ban on surreptitious advertising. In September 2006, the LMK ruled that Sat.1 had violated the ban on surreptitious advertising with its Easter programme “Jetzt geht’s um die Eier! Die große Promi-Oster-Show”, which was broadcast on 8 April 2006. During the programme, at the centre of which was a cookery competition, advertising banners...

The Law on Radio and Television (LRTV) adopted by Parliament on 24 March 2006 (see IRIS 2006-4: 8) overhauled the Swiss audiovisual legal regime. To implement the provisions of the law, the Federal Council adopted a new Decree on Radio and Television (DRTV). The Decree entered into force on 1 April 2007. Broadcasters who command neither a share of fees nor guaranteed distribution, will no longer require a licence and will not have to fulfil a service mandate. They will merely be subject to compulsory registration. Private broadcasters now have more advertising options, and the share of the reception...