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During 2006, TV4, a Swedish commercial television channel, had on three separate occasions been ordered by judgment to pay special fines for commercial advertising breaks in ongoing television broadcasting contrary to the radio-och TV lagen (1996:844), the Swedish Act on Radio and TV. According to the Swedish Act on Radio and TV, commercial advertising breaks in ongoing television broadcasting are only allowed in a specifically stated manner. The Act on Radio and TV prescribes that breaks may only be introduced in a television programme where they do not infringe the integrity and value of the...

For the first time in the history of Romania, on 19 May 2007, a referendum was held on the question of deposing the President. Immediately after the Romanian parliament’s decision of 19 April 2007 to suspend the country’s President, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) expressed in a press release (Comunicat de presă al CNA din 20 aprilie 2007) its concerns about the way in which the political events associated with this suspension were being portrayed on radio and television . It stated that incorrect information and erroneous views on the constitutional...

As of 1 May 2007, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Media Authority) has repealed its set of policy rules known as the Sportregeling (Sports Regulation).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...