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In March 2005, the Slovakian Ministry of Trade and Commerce prepared an amendment to Advertising Act No. 147/2001 (zákon o reklame). If the new instrument is adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovakia, it will result in an explicit ban on sponsorship and more stringent restrictions on advertising for tobacco products on all forms of data carrier and in all types of commercial communication, as required by Directive 2003/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States...

At the end of May 2005, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian regulatory body for electronic media - CNA ) instructed Romanian TV companies to comply more closely with the provisions of CNA Decision No. 254/2004 on sponsorship, advertising and teleshopping (Decizia CNA nr. 254/2004 privind sponsorizarea, publicitatea şi teleshoppingul), particularly in TV press review programmes. According to the decision, this step was necessitated by the fact that "certain television programmes illegally advertise particular publications, which has a negative impact on free competition in the printed...

In the autumn of 2003, the Norwegian Media Authority sanctioned the national commercial broadcaster, TV2, and a local television company with fines for having broadcast political advertising in breach of the ban. The Norwegian Broadcasting Act prohibits political and religious advertising on television. The advertising in question was for a political party in connection with an election campaign. The local broadcaster brought the case before the municipal court, claiming that the Authority's decision, and thus also the ban, represented an infringement of the fundamental right of freedom of speech...

On 23 December 2004 the Statute of the Republic of Georgia “On Broadcasting” was passed. The Statute has 11 chapters and consists of 77 articles. The Statute regulates relations in the sphere of the organisation of public, commercial and communal broadcasting, formation, as well as functions of the independent regulatory body, licensing rules and procedures, and liability of broadcasters. It also includes provisions concerning ownership and transparency of mass media entities, as well as advertising. Chapter 2 of the Statute deals with the principles of formation, financing, competence and status...

The Communications Act 2003 established a new unified regulator for communications, Ofcom (see IRIS 2003-8: 10). The Act requires Ofcom to draw up a code for television and radio which covers standards in programmes, sponsorship, fairness and privacy, replacing the six codes of its predecessor bodies (sec. 319). The Code also gives continuing effect to the content requirements of the Television Without Frontiers Directive (see Appendix 2 of the Code). The new Code has now been published and comes into force on 25 July 2005. The matters it covers are: Protecting the Under-Eighteens, Harm and Offence,...