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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...

Following the adoption of the new Broadcasting Act of Serbia (IRIS 2002-8: 11), the National Assembly of the Republic of Montenegro, in its session of 16 September 2002, adopted a set of new media legislation. It consists of the new Laws (1) on Media, (2) on Broadcasting and (3) on Public Broadcasting Services "Radio Montenegro" and "Television Montenegro". However, the implementation of these laws is postponed until 1 May 2003 (presidential elections in Montenegro are scheduled for December 2002). The new media legislation of Montenegro has been prepared by the Working Group of the Secretariat...

Decision no.112 of the Consiliul Na tional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) of 8 October 2002 on the advertising of distilled alcoholic drinks will replace the current regulations on this subject in Romania from 1 January 2003. The CNA explained that the new rules were necessary because of the increasing levels of alcohol consumption among young people, which was having a negative impact on society in general and on minors in particular. For that reason, and based on the provisions of the new Audiovisual Act (Legea audiovizualului No. 504/2002), the CNA has decided to prohibit...

The Forum on Broadcasting, established by the Government in March 2002 (see IRIS 2002-7: 13), reported in August. Many individuals and organisations, including Radio Telefís Éireann (the national public service broadcaster, RTÉ), the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (ODTR), made written submissions to the Forum. The ODTR set out the current position regarding broadcasting services in Ireland and the future under the new EC Framework Directives. The BCI set out all the relevant statutory provisions and assessed various aspects...

At its meeting on 16 September 2002, the general assembly of the Landeszentrale für private Rundfunkveranstalter (Regional Authority for Private Broadcasters - LPR) of Rheinland-Pfalz issued an official complaint about the TV broadcaster SAT.1. The complaint concerned a commercial for alcoholic drinks, broadcast in summer 2001. SAT.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH broadcasts in Switzerland where, thanks to the increasing freedom granted by the LPR, it is able to broadcast special advertising windows. The LPR's permission is conditional on the Swiss advertising windows being subject to Swiss law. According...