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On 10 June 2006 the Protection of Consumers Act came into effect. The purpose of the Act was to protect consumers and persons exercising activities in commerce, production and handcrafts from misleading and unfair advertising. A new definition of “advertising” was introduced in the Act: “any message related to commerce, craft or profession, aimed at the promotion of goods or services, including real estate, rights and obligations (Art. 33, para 1). The Act also established a prohibition of misleading and unfair advertising, as well as for comparative advertising that was not proper according to...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian National Audiovisual Council - CNA)has stipulated in a recommendation to all Romanian broadcasters that “separate levying of import duties should be subject to a conformity criterion that will in future allow the acceptance of television advertisements using a type size different from that of accompanying text information”. The CNA thus accepts that until 1 January 2007, in television advertising for cars “price information that includes all duties and taxes will appear in type half the size of that used for price information omitting these details”....

On 19 May 2006, the Red-Green Government in Norway informed Parliament that the prohibition on political and religious advertising on TV, as laid down in the Broadcasting Act, will be upheld. The decision reversed the former Government’s proposal to repeal the ban. Last summer, the previous Government in Norway circulated for public review a proposal to allow political and religious advertising on TV except for a period of four weeks before and on Election Day where a total ban should apply. No particular regulation was proposed on such advertising outside this period, even though limitations on...

The question as to the admissibility of advertising for private betting agencies in Germany is still not completely resolved. Even after the decision handed down by the Federal Constitutional Court (see IRIS 2006-6: 8), court rulings on the consequences that flow from the decision still differ. The regional court of Hamburg (LG Hamburg), for instance, issued an injunction on 14 June 2006 preventing the broadcasting company RTL from continuing to broadcast advertisements for a private sports betting agency. This was followed on 19 June 2006 by a decision of the first regional court of Munich (LG...

Political parties and presidential candidates can place paid political advertisements on radio and television during the campaign period for parliamentary and presidential elections respectively. The amending law L.85(I)2006 of the Law on Radio and Television Stations of 1998, published in the official Gazette on 20 April 2006 provides that political advertising is allowed during the 40 days preceding the elections and must stop 55 hours before the start of voting. Their total duration can not exceed 100 minutes, which is limited to 30 minutes in the case of independent candidates to the parliament....