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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...

On 21 December 2006 the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania adopted a ruling on the compliance of certain provisions of the Act on the National Radio and Television of Lithuania, and the Act on the Provision of Information to the Public, with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania (see IRIS 2006-2: 17 and IRIS 2006-9: 16). These acts established the model of financing of the Lithuanian Public Service Broadcaster (LRT) and the method of assigning the newly co-ordinated radio frequencies (channels) for the broadcasting of LRT programmes. The ruling of the Constitutional Court...

On 2 February 2007, the Gemeinsame Stelle Digitaler Zugang der Landesmedienanstalten (joint digital access office of the Land media authorities - GSDZ) presented a new draft discussion paper on navigators and electronic programme guides (EPGs) (see IRIS 2007-1: 7). The paper states that there is no competition between the different programme lists currently available, independently of set-top boxes, and that this could lead to discrimination between different services. In order to guarantee freedom of access as required under Art. 53 of the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement...

The Slovak Parliament has recently approved an amendment to the Broadcasting and Retransmission Act No. 308/2000 Coll. The amendment to the act is published as No. 13/2007 and became effective on 1 February 2007. The amendment foresees that advertisement and tele-shopping spots must not be broadcast with a sound volume higher than the sound volume of the parts of the programme service that immediately precede or follow such spots. This parameter is also applicable to audio-visual tools separating advertisement and tele-shopping from other parts of the programme service. The purpose of this amendment...