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The Federal Act amending the Private Radio Act, the Private Television Act, the KommAustria Act and the ORF Act and repealing the Television Signal Act was promulgated at the end of July, and most of its provisions entered into force on 1 August 2004. The new act heralds the most extensive modification in the broadcasting field since the reform of its legal framework in 2001. The amendment places private broadcasting laws as a whole on a sounder commercial footing, inter alia by relaxing certain guarantees designed to ensure media diversity. The provisions on controls have been amended with a...

In May 2002, the European Commission formally asked France to lift its ban on television advertising by the press, the distribution networks and the cinema and publishing sectors introduced by the Decree of 27 March 1992 (see IRIS 2002-6: 13). The Community authorities felt that these regulations, which France held were necessary to preserve the diversity of the press and culture and to protect small shops, restricted the free circulation of services within the Union. In a Decree of 7 October 2003, the French public authorities decided to authorise television advertising for the press, from 1 January...

On 13 July, the Court of Justice of the European Communities delivered its judgment in the two cases concerning the French law which bans indirect advertising of alcoholic beverages (Loi Evin). The Court follows the Opinion of its Advocate General, dated 11 March 2004 (see IRIS 2004-4: 3 also for the content of the French provisions). Advocate General Tizzano decided in favour of the compatibility with Community law of the French legislation on tobacco and alcohol addiction ("the Loi Evin ") and of the code of conduct drawn up by the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (the French audiovisual regulatory...

Sweden has made amendments to the Radio and Television Act to the effect that short overruns of the permitted advertising time per hour can be accepted if they were unforeseen. Sweden has stricter rules on the amount of permitted advertising than is stipulated in the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. According to the Swedish Radio and Television Act, advertising may be broadcast for not more than 8 minutes in each clock hour. In television broadcasts this amount may be extended to not more than 10 minutes during broadcasting hours between7.00 p.m. and midnight. The amount of advertising...

On 20 August 2004 President Putin signed the Statute amending the Statute On Advertising of 18 July 1995. The new Statute, adopted earlier by the State Duma, entered into legal force 10 days after the date of its publication. The new Statute imposes a number of restrictions on advertising of beer and beer-based products. The Statute regulates both the content and rules of placement of beer and beer-based product advertisements in the mass media. Such advertisements shall not contain information assuring viewers that the drinking of these beverages is harmless and (or) healthy, thirst-quenching,...