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On 6 October 2004, the Communications Authority ­ AGCOM (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni) decided to amend the regulation concerning commercial advertising, in particular the provision concerning the insertion of advertising during the broadcasting of football games. Regulation no. 538/01/CSP (see IRIS 2001-9: 11) provided that during the transmission of sports inserted during the intervals which are foreseen by the official regulations of the event being broadcast or during pauses in the game, provided that the advertising break does not interrupt the transmission of the sports action...

The Romanian regulatory body for electronic media, the Consiliul Na,tional al Audiovizualului (CNA), has amended the regulations on advertising, sponsorship and teleshopping (CNA decision no. 123/2003, published in the Romanian Official Gazette no. 479 of 4 July 2003) by decision no. 254 of 5 July 2004 (Decizia CNA privind publicitatea, sponsorizarea ,si teleshoppingul). The aim of the changes is to uphold the principles of free competition, the protection of life, health, consumer interests and the environment, and to bring Romanian legislation into line with EC law. Advertising for food, for...

In March 2004 the Regional Court of Paris ordered the telephone operator SFR and the advertising agency Publicis to pay the film company Gaumont EUR 300 000 for parasitic conduct as it had run a large-scale advertising campaign that deliberately used elements that were evocative of the film (see IRIS 2004-5: 7). One month later, the two companies appealed against the judgment, as did Luc Besson, whose application to the Courts on the grounds of piracy infringing his moral right as co-author of the film had been dismissed by the Court. On 8 September, the Court of Appeal in Paris delivered a much-remarked...

On 9 July 2004, the Landtag (regional parliament) of North Rhine-Westphalia held a hearing on a Bill tabled by the Landesregierung (regional government) amending the Gesetz für den Westdeutschen Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting Act). The participants included representatives of regional broadcasting authorities, regulatory bodies, cable and satellite associations and academics. Based on the complaints management system used by the British public broadcaster BBC, the Bill proposes the creation of an independent programming and complaints body, which would decide on viewers' complaints in agreement...

RTL Television, the German subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based RTL Group, has withdrawn a complaint to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) against a decision of the Oberlandesgericht Celle (Celle Appeal Court - OLG). The proceedings concerned the forfeiture of income earned from illegal advertising. In 1997, the OLG had ruled in the last instance that RTL could not take advantage of the more relaxed regulations governing series when calculating the maximum permissible number of commercial breaks (see IRIS 1997-7: 11). The relevant media supervisory body, the Niedersächsische...