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On 16 June 2003 the Austrian public service broadcaster, Österreichische Rundfunk (ORF), and the Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen (Association of Austrian Newspapers) signed an agreement on advertising via the ORF's television channels under which the ORF pledged to comply with special rules defining the statutory restrictions applicable to the ORF in the sphere of television advertising (ORF advertising guidelines) and, in return, the Association of Austrian Newspapers agreed to go to arbitration before bringing any disputes before the court under the Unfair Competition Act and before lodging...

The Slovak state-owned television channel, STV, did not violate broadcasting law when it transmitted short advertisements during ice hockey games at times other than in the breaks stipulated by the rules (occurring at one-third and two-third intervals), according to the decision given by the Rada Pre Vysielanie A Retransmisiu (Broadcasting Council) in its meeting on 19 November 2003. During the transmission of the 2003 ice hockey world championship in Finland, the television channel had interrupted the games as they were being played, by inserting short advertisements. The Broadcasting Council...

The bill amending the Broadcasting Act, aimed at the transposition of European Community legal standards into national law (see IRIS 2003-10: 9), was finally been adopted by the Parliament on 2 April 2004. The draft bill sent to Parliament on 7 November 2003 by the Government, has been amended by the Sejm (lower chamber of the Parliament) and the Senat (upper chamber of the Parliament). The changes made to the governmental proposal are of minor importance and the main objective of the bill ­ harmonisation with EC law ­ is kept intact. The amendment contains inter alia specific criteria to identify...

As announced in its Communication on the future of European regulatory audiovisual policy published last December (see IRIS 2004-1: 6), the European Commission has adopted an Interpretative Communication on certain aspects of the provisions on televised advertising in the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The aim of the Communication is to clarify how the rules on advertising in the Directive apply to certain commercial practices and advertising techniques, which have emerged in recent years. This should help increase legal certainty for all parties concerned. The Communication only clarifies...

On 16 March The Director General of Bulgarian National Television (BNT) was dismissed by the Council of Electronic Media (CEM). The CEM took this decision with the support of only 5 of the 9 members of the Council and it was publicly announced that the legal department of the Council did not support the decision either. The Council based its decision on the grounds that over the last two years it had issued three valid penalty ordinances for similar cases of violation of law in the program of the BNT. The frequency of occurrence qualifies the violations as systematic violations according to section...