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Regulation 2006/2004 on the cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws has been implemented in the Netherlands through the Wet Handhaving Consumentenbescherming (Consumer Protection Enforcement Act). A lack of compliance with regulations in various consumer markets was the main reason for introducing the legislation. The Consumentenautoriteit (Consumer Authority) has been set up as part of the new regime. As far as the audiovisual media are concerned, existing provisions on advertising, sponsorship, subliminal messages, diversity of programmes...

The Broadcasting Authority has launched a consultation dealing with programmes on vehicles. It has discussed television programmes on vehicles and their regulation in Europe and carried out a monitoring exercise of currently produced vehicle programmes on Maltese television. In its consultation programme, the Authority is proposing that such programmes should conform to the following: - such programmes should not be of an advertising nature but informative and educational; - such programmes will not be considered in breach of advertising regulations if several vehicle products produced, imported,...

The Broadcasting Authority has considered, during one of its recent sittings, those programmes involving the review of specific immovable property and is proposing that such programmes should conform with the following rules: - the programme in question does not contain surreptitious advertising; - no logos or shop fronts of estate agents may be shown during such a programme; - the person who shall describe the immovable property cannot be an employee or a representative of an estate agency; - the location and the name of the street, square, road, etc. where the immovable property is situated cannot...

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...