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On 15 September 2005, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority), sent an official letter to the board of Directors of the Dutch Public Broadcasting Service. In that letter the Authority informed the Board of its intention to impose a fine of EUR 13.500. The Public Broadcasting Service is responsible for the broadcasting time allocated to blocks of advertisements (“STER broadcasting time”). The BNN programme “Top of the Pops” was found to have been illegitimately interrupted by these “STER” blocks of advertisements. The programme item “Top of the Pops”, broadcast on 20 August 2005,...

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...