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The Independent Television Commission and the Office of Communications, the regulators for commercial UK broadcasting until the end of 2003 and after that date respectively, have abolished the former rule preventing the joint sale of airtime for advertising by more than one broadcaster (see also IRIS 2001-6: 7). The review of the rules was a result of conditional approval of the merger of the two major ITV companies, Carlton and Granada (see IRIS 2003-10: 7). In their consultation on the issue the regulators considered whether to issue new rules or to rely on general competition law alone to prevent...

The CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel ­ audiovisual regulatory body) published two recommendations on 18 December 2003 that lay down the methods for implementing the Decree of 7 October 2003 on advertising on television for sectors that were previously prohibited from advertising ­ namely the press and publishing ­ thereby exercising its powers of interpretation. Since 1 January, the press and the literary publishing industry have had full access to advertising on television. The CSA feels that this new possibility should be considered as an "extension of the freedom of the press". In respect...

In an interlocutory judgment of 13 November 2003 the Berlin Verwaltungsgericht (Administrative Court) held, in proceedings concerning the confiscation of advertising revenue derived from impugned television programmes, that section 63, paragraph 3 of the Medienstaatsvertrag Berlin-Brandenburg (the Berlin-Brandenburg Agreement on the Media ­ MstV) was unconstitutional. The subject of the statement of facts on which the decision was based was a television broadcaster's contributions to a programme in which unannounced visitors rang on people's doorbells at night. The occupiers of the house were...

The Covenant on cooperation of Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the regulation of advertising activity was adopted on behalf of Council of the Heads of Governments of the CIS by the Council on Economics of the Commonwealth of Independent States at its session in Moscow on 19 December 2003 and signed by 9 out of the 12 Member States. The Covenant has 19 articles and is a continuation of the policy laid down in the CIS Treaty on concerted antimonopoly policy of 25 January 2000 and the CIS Covenant on major guidelines of activity to protect the rights of consumers, of the...

According to a decision by the Austrian Verfassungsgerichtshof (Constitutional Court - VfGH), the ban on television advertising of radio stations operated by the public service broadcaster Österreichische Rundfunk (ORF) does not violate the broadcaster's freedom of expression. In the decision contested by the ORF, the relevant supervisory body, the Bundeskommunikationssenat (Federal Communications Office), had found that the broadcaster had infringed Article 13(9) of the Gesetz über den Österreichischen Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Act - ORF-G) by showing an advertisement on its TV channel...