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At its plenary meetings on 23 July and 10 September 2002, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) examined the balance sheet of the authorised French-language services distributed by cable and satellite. Traditionally, this balance sheet is based on two complementary approaches - firstly the monitoring and observation of programmes by the CSA, and secondly a declaration scheme based on the undertaking given by each service to submit an annual report on the conditions for carrying out its obligations. The report must include all the figures for programmes and...

On 7 May the European Commission instructed France to repeal its decree of 27 March 1992 prohibiting advertising on television for a number of sectors of economic activity (literary publishing, the cinema, the press and large-scale distribution). Mr Aillagon, Minister of Culture and Communication, immediately announced that consultation would be embarked upon with the professionals concerned "in the near future" (see IRIS 2002-6: 13). Yet it was not until 25 September that the French Government replied to the Community authorities, giving its reasons for considering the contested regulations to...

On 4 June 2002, the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) rejected the President's veto on the suggested changes to the Act on Pharmaceutical Activities which were adopted by the Parliament on 9 May 2002. On 29 May 2002 the President announced that the suggested changes on banning advertisements of prescription drugs on radio and television would have banned all information about them on these media. He said that while the changes were aimed at prohibiting advertisements of prescription drugs, they had gone too far as "all information about medicines cannot be identified as being commercials." He also...

The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Law on Broadcasting at a session held on 18 July 2002. The Law was promulgated and published on 19 July and came into force on 27 of the same month after a lengthy procedure (IRIS 2001-3: 13 und IRIS 2001-6: 10). Serbian Law on Broadcasting (SLB) has nine chapters: Basic Provisions, Broadcasting Agency of the Republic, Broadcasting License, General Programming Standards, Public Service Broadcasting, Prevention of Illicit Media Concentration, Advertising and Sponsorship, Penal Provisions and Transitory and Final Provisions. The most detailed...

Following a preparatory process lasting nearly four years, the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary has approved the Bill on the Amendment of Act No. I of 1996 on Radio and Television Services ("Broadcasting Act"). The amendment concerns issues aimed at achieving full harmonisation of the Hungarian Broadcasting Act with the relevant EU legislation and with the European Convention on Transfrontier Television as recently amended by a protocol. The amendment has been enacted following the fourth submission of the Bill, which according to the provisions of the Constitution of Hungary required a two-thirds...