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At the end of a six-month EU twinning project, funded to the tune of EUR 90,000 by the European Commission with the purpose of improving the supervision of broadcasting in Latvia, representatives of the Nacionālā Radio un Televīzijas Padome (National Broadcasting Council - NRTP ) and its German partner, the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg Communications Authority - LFK ), discussed their interpretation of the legal framework with representatives of Latvian broadcasting in Riga on 22 August 2006. The interpretation guidelines concern the protection of minors,...

On 11 July 2006 the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ) adopted a new version of the Act on Provision of Information to the Public, which came into force on 1 September 2006. The Act was first adopted in 1996. The new version of the Act provides for the following new elements: announcements, information society media means, information society service, information regarding pornographic content, information regarding erotic content, information regarding violent content, news broadcasts. The confidentiality of information sources was finally regulated by this Act. In Lithuania there were a lot of...

At the beginning of August 2006, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) launched the second phase of a two-phase consultation process in relation to its new general code on television advertising. The BCI is required by section 19 of the Broadcasting Act 2001 (see IRIS 2001-4: 9) to provide advertising and other codes. The current code of advertising dates from 1995 and was amended slightly in 1999 to give effect to certain changes contained in the Television without Frontiers Directive. Phase 2 of the consultation process involves commenting on the draft code. The draft code modernises the...

According to Articles 1 and 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended, one of the duties of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is to guarantee the protection of children and young people in respect of programmes that are broadcast. On 04 July 2006, as part of this mission, the CSA set up a framework for the presentation and promotion on television (apart from cinema channels and pay-per-view schemes) of cinematographic or audiovisual works and their spin-off videograms, video games and telephone and telematic services and Internet sites to which minors...

In the context of the accession of Bulgaria to the EU the Bulgarian National Assembly adopted amendments to the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act and the Radio and Television Act in August 2006 (see IRIS 2002-2: 3). A new clause is introduced in the Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act prohibiting the advertising of tobacco and tobacco products in the mass media. The advertising of tobacco and tobacco products is explicitly prohibited in radio and television programmes (Art. 35, para. 2 Tobacco and Tobacco Products Act). The advertising of tobacco and tobacco products in the press or other printing...