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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...

The Dutch television programme " Breekijzer " was fined by the Commissariat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority - CvdM) for self-promotion. The broadcaster of the programme, SBS6, appealed, but the Court rejected the appeal on the merits of the case. In the final appeal, the ABRvS (the Dutch Supreme Court for Administrative Law) upheld the verdict of the CvdM. According to Article 52j of the Mediabesluit (Dutch Media Regulation), commercial broadcasters may not show names, pictorial marks, services and activities, etc., of persons, companies or institutions in television programmes, when...

In 1992, in accordance with the terms of a code of good conduct drawn up by the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel ­ audiovisual regulatory body) provisions were integrated into the Act of 16 July 1984 with a view to better reconciling the public's right to information and the television channels' exclusive holding of rights to broadcast sport events. Thus Article 18-2 of the amended Act provides that the vendor or acquirer of the right to exploit a sports event may not oppose the broadcasting by other audiovisual communication services of brief extracts taken free of charge from the images...