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At their conference in Bad Pyrmont from 18 to 20 October 2006, the Minister-Presidents of the Länder agreed to continue the state betting monopoly. As the current Chair of the Conference of Minister-Presidents, Lower Saxony is responsible, along with the Länder of Bavaria, Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, for organising a hearing on the draft Staatsvertrag zum Glücksspielwesen (Inter-State Gambling Agreement). One of the main amendments is the ban on advertising for public gambling services on television, via the Internet and by telephone. An exemption to the ban on TV advertising...

In an explanatory letter to Parliament, the minister of Education, Culture and Science has responded to the findings of three different studies that have recently been completed. The first of these studies is a report by TNO (an independent research organisation) about the future of commercials in a digital television landscape. This report concludes that in order to retain their current position and influence, commercial and public broadcasters should expand their activities toward digital services such as on-demand video and search machines. TNO predicts that traditional television commercials...

On 12 July 2006, the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (Communications Authority - AGCOM) adopted an amendment to the Regulation on advertising (see IRIS 2001-9: 11), prohibiting the increase of the volume levels of advertising messages being broadcast during breaks in programmes. This new provision was implemented on 10 October 2006 when AGCOM defined the first urgent technical parameters to be respected by all national and local broadcasters and on all platforms (terrestrial, cable and satellite). This issue is of importance to Italian broadcasting, both on public and on private channels....

The Hamburg Institute for New Media (HAM) has objected to some jingle-based advertisements shown on the MTV 2 Pop programme. By broadcasting twelve jingle-based adverts on this programme between 6 am and 8 pm MTV Networks violated Youth Protection provisions. What is objectionable, according to the decision of the HAM, is that the broadcast adverts encouraged children and young people to make a purchase, such encouragement exploiting their lack of experience and gullibility. In accordance with § 6 paragraph 2 of the Youth Media Protection State Agreement (JMStV), advertising may not contain any...

The European Commission has decided to initiate infringement procedures against Member States violating the EU tobacco advertising ban as contained in the Tobacco Advertising Directive 2003/33/EC. This Directive bans tobacco advertising in printed media, on radio and over the internet. It also prohibits tobacco sponsorship of cross-border events or activities. It only targets advertising and sponsorship with a cross-border dimension and does not allow exemptions regarding the entry into force of the prescribed measures and prohibitions. However, exemptions delaying implementation beyond the prescribed...