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The Gambling Act 2005 is due to come fully into force on 1 September 2007. The Act, for the first time, provides for licences for “…remote gambling” (Section 67). There is also a new regime for broadcast advertisements for gambling (Part 16). If the operators are based in the UK, an operating licence must be obtained “to authorise the provision of gambling via remote communication e.g. via interactive television or the Internet”. Further, new rules concerning gambling advertising in the UK have been announced by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising...

Scottish Television, a commercial public service broadcaster, was found to be in breach of the Broadcasting Code by Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. The Code prohibits the promotion in programmes of products and services (with the exception of programme-related material), and the giving of undue prominence to products and services. Undue prominence may arise through reference to a product where there is no editorial justification, or through the manner in which a product appears in a programme. Scottish Television is owned by the Scottish Media Group (SMG). Its news programme included an...

The Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic has established criteria for appraising the distinction between advertising and sponsoring in its ruling dated 30 November 2006. The starting point for this development involved various decisions of the Czech Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (Broadcasting Council) in which it had imposed fines on various broadcasting companies for introducing advertising into sponsorship material. The decisions by the Broadcasting Council were contested in later proceedings. Some decisions were subsequently upheld by the Prague municipal court while...

On 22 February 2007, the Parliament passed the Zakon za Izbirane na Chlenove na Evropeyskiya Parlament ot Republika Balgaria (Act on the Election of Members of the European Parliament by the Republic of Bulgaria). The Act provides the opportunity for Bulgarian citizens to be elected members of the European Parliament for the first time. The Act was promulgated in the State Gazette (issue 20 of 6 March 2007) and entered into force on the same day. Chapter 6 of the Act regulates the media coverage (press and electronic media) of the election campaign. According to the Act, the press and the private...

In its “connect it“ decision on 26 February 2007, the Austrian Federal Communications Board (BKS) dealt with a so-called sponsorship broadcast in which the products and services of sponsors were extensively presented and endorsed in two editorial reports. The issue concerned whether or not there was a breach of § 46 para. 2 Fig. 3 of the Private Television Act (corresponding to Art. 17 para. 1 lit c of the Television Without Frontiers Directive) under which sponsorship broadcasts may not suggest the purchase, hire or lease of the products or the engagement of the services of the principal or a...