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On 18 December 2002, the Bundesrat (Council of Ministers) submitted to Parliament a Communiqué concerning the complete revision of the Radio- und Fernsehgesetz (Radio and Television Act - RTVG). The key objectives of this document are to guarantee a strong public broadcasting service (required by constitutional law) and, at the same time, to relax the rules for private broadcasters. The new Radio and Television Act makes particular provision for an independent Swiss broadcasting service that serves all the language regions equally and is able to compete with wealthier broadcasters from neighbouring...

At the beginning of 2003, the European Commission published its Fourth Report on the Application of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The main part of the Report provides a comprehensive mise au point of the implementation of the Directive and of the central principles enshrined therein. The Annex to the Report sets out the details of the projected work for the review of the Directive, along with the time-frame within which this work is to be carried out. The Report affirms a healthy diagnosis of the development of the television market in Europe for the period 2000-2002. The implementation...

On 24 October 2002, the Hungarian National Public Service Television (M1) announced a public tender aiming to outsource the sales of its entire available commercial airtime, including sponsorship possibilities, to a company on an exclusive basis (see No. 43 / 2002 of the Public Procurement Newsletter). The tender had been based on the Act XL of 1995 on Public Procurement. The applicants had to fulfill financial, technical and professional requirements, among others, in order to have reliable bank credit records and they had to prove strong experience in the field of advertisement sales activities....

In a letter sent in mid-October 2002 to the President of the Rundfunkkommission (Broadcasting Commission) of the Länder and the Minister-President of Rheinland-Pfalz, the public service broadcasters - the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Union of German Public Service Broadcasters - ARD), Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen (ZDF) and DeutschlandRadio (DLR) - explained how they understood their public service remit. The reason for the letter was an amendment to the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting - RStV), adopted...

On 20 November 2002, the European Parliament cast its First Reading vote on the proposed Tobacco Advertising Directive. MEPs rejected several amendments that would have restricted the scope of the Directive. They did, however, adopt an amendment ensuring the competence of the individual Member States to regulate matters concerning tobacco advertising and sponsoring not covered by the proposed Directive, for example, indirect advertising and sponsorship without cross-border effects. The First Reading vote follows the Commission's proposal for a Tobacco Advertising Directive of May 2001. The proposal...