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On 8 October 2001 a new Regulation on advertising and teleshopping adopted on 25 July by the Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority) pursuant to the Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo (the Communications Act) of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (see IRIS 1997-8: 10), will enter into force. The Regulation represents the final step of a procedure begun on 10 March 2000 with the launch of a public consultation (see IRIS 2000-9: 10). It applies to all radio and television broadcasters,...

In July 2001, the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Navarra approved a new Act on the provision of audiovisual services in Navarra and on the creation of the Consejo Audiovisual de Navarra (the Audiovisual Council of Navarra - CAN). This Act implements some provisions of the national Act 25/1994 (as amended by Act 22/1999), which incorporates the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive into Spanish Law. The new Act of Navarra obliges broadcasters under its jurisdiction to comply with quotas for Navarran programmes. It also regulates advertising, sponsorship and the protection of minors,...

The Broadcasting Council, which monitors broadcasting in the Czech Republic, has imposed fines on several Czech TV broadcasters. In one case, broadcasters repeatedly showed an advertisement for a brand of sweet, in which a girl threw her doll at a car at a street crossing so that the activated airbags trapped the car's occupants against the back of their seats. The girl then took a sweet from the hand of an astonished woman sitting in the car. A voice then said: "(name of brand) - when you must, you must". In the Broadcasting Council's view, this advertisement was aimed at minors and encouraged...

The Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Federal Communications Office - BAKOM) has declared that plans by French TV channel M6 to broadcast a Swiss advertising window are "unwelcome" as far as Swiss media policy is concerned. The BAKOM estimates that the Swiss media sector loses around CHF 107 million in advertising revenue each year because of advertising windows already operating on German TV channels. In the Frenchspeaking areas, it is reckoned that a Swiss advertising window broadcast by M6 could deprive the public broadcaster Télévision Suisse romande of advertising revenue worth approximately CHF...

On 21 December 2000 the President of Lithuania signed into law amendments to the law "On provision of information to the public (1996)". The amendments provide for further changes in broadcasting law pursuant to Lithuania's obligations under the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. First, the law clarifies the requirements to protect minors from programmes detrimental to their physical, intellectual and moral development, particularly that which is linked with pornography and (or) gratuitous portrayal of violence (Art.18). It eliminates the requirement to mark with a special visual...