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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...

The UK Government has published a draft Communications Bill to reform fundamentally the regulation of broadcasting and telecommunications and to liberalise ownership rules (see IRIS 2002-6: 9). As part of the consultation process, the Bill has been examined by two Parliamentary Committees drawn from both Houses of Parliament. The first report was that of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Committee considered that most of the Bill's provisions are unlikely to cause problems in respect of human rights; however some will require revision to provide adequate safeguards. Most seriously, the...

The Oberlandesgericht Celle (Celle High Court of Appeal - OLG) recently quashed the decision by the Amtsgericht Hannover (Hannover District Court - AG) to acquit "Big Brother" producer Endemol Entertainment Productions GmbH (Endemol) on the charge of surreptitious advertising. It referred the case for review. The Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt (Lower Saxony Regional Media Authority -NLM) had fined Endemol because its then managing director had deliberately broadcast surreptitious advertising. During the live broadcast in question by RTL Television GmbH (RTL), advertising rules had been...

According to Section 13.9 of the Bundesgesetz über den Österreichischen Rundfunk (Federal Act on the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - ORF-Gesetz, ORF-G), advertising for radio programmes broadcast by Österreichische Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting CorporationORF) may not be shown on television channels operated by ORF, and vice versa, unless it concerns the contents of individual programmes. According to the Act, which entered into force on 1 January 2002, the ban on cross promotion is designed to prevent the distortion of competition between the public service broadcaster ORF on the one hand...