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On 29 September 2005 the representatives of the Magyar Reklámszövetség (Hungarian Advertising Association - MRSz), the Önszabályozó Reklám Testület (Hungarian Advertising Self-regulatory Board - ÖRT)-thetwo main self-regulatory organisations of the national advertising industry - and of further 20 professional associations involved in matters of advertising -- signed the amendment to the Magyar Reklámetikai Kódex (HungarianCode of AdvertisingEthics). This code of conduct serves as the common basis of self-regulatory practices in the Hungarian advertising industry. Its original version was adopted...

On 10 October 2005, the Assembly of the Bureau for Media and Communication (LMK) for the Land Rhineland-Palatinate rejected the rebuttal by the private television company Sat 1 of a complaint concerning surreptitious advertising. The company has been accused of violating the principle whereby television programmes and advertising remain separate. Fault was found with a television game, where the rabbit figure of a sweet manufacturer was faded into television series, films and entertainment shows. Television spectators were supposed to count the number of rabbits and could win prizes. This, in...

In the run-up to the German parliamentary elections in October 2005 several rulings were issued in the German courts on the requirement for television broadcasters to transmit party political broadcasts. The subject was the party political broadcast of a small party that had anarchy as part of its political programme. The public service broadcasters ARD and ZDF had refused to broadcast it on the grounds of protecting young people. The verbal content of the broadcast comprised the party's candidate for Chancellor shouting out his “address”. The final fade-in ran: “Your vote for the garbage“. Otherwise...

The Supreme Court (judicial review jurisdiction) decided in September 2005 that the ban on (paid) political advertising is in breach of the law because the relevant provision in the regulations on Radio and Television Broadcasting 10/2000 was adopted beyond the scope of the law (ultra vires). The Supreme Court upheld thereby a first instance Court decision, challenged by the Cyprus Radio and Television Authority. The Supreme Court has first instance, appellate and revisional jurisdiction. It exercises revisional jurisdiction on decisions of Assize and District Courts as well as on first instance...

In its ruling of 6 September 2005 the Federal Communications Court (BKS) issued two decisions on unauthorised advertising on the Austrian Broadcasting channel (ORF), the public service broadcaster. In one instance the ORF had broadcast two CD adverts without distinguishing them from the preceding or subsequent programme content being shown. In the opinion of the BKS, this constituted an infringement of § 13 paragraph 3 of the Austrian Broadcasting Act, whereby advertising must be clearly recognisable as such, and by using visual and acoustic effects must be clearly distinguishable from other parts...