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Adopted on the basis of Article 33 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Decree of 1 September 1992 sets down the obligations incumbent on each category of radio and television services distributed by cable. A decree adopted on 9 July this year amends the text in two ways. The purpose of the first set of amendments is to ensure that the 1992 Decree is compatible with Community law. On 19 April 1999, the European Commission applied to the Court of Justice of the European Communities claiming that French regulations failed to comply with a number of provisions of the "Television Without...

The Information Society Bill (see IRIS 2001-5: 14) was adopted on 13 June 2001 by the Council of Ministers without any major changes. The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) and the Commission national informatique et libertés (CNIL - National Commission for IT and Civil Liberties), both closely concerned with the subject, have given their opinions on the provisions of the Bill. The length of time during which connection data is retained for investigative purposes remains fixed by the Council of Ministers at a maximum of one year. This very controversial...

On 1 May 2001, the new zákon o reklame a doplnení niektor´ych zákonov (Act on Advertising and on Amendments of Certain Rules) was enacted. It replaces the zákon o reklame v znení neskorsích predpisov (Act on Advertising) of 1996 and it amends for the first time the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission) of 2000. The main change is the implementation of the new concept of comparative advertising into the new Act on Advertising of 2001. Comparative advertising was not allowed in the past and the incentive to deal with this type of advertising followed from efforts...

The recent referendum in Ireland on the question of whether to accept the Nice Treaty re-awakened some of the controversy surrounding political advertising. In the referendum campaign, activists from both sides of the debate were prevented from placing advertisements relating to the campaign on national and local radio and television. Section 10 subsection 3 of the Radio and Television Act, 1988 prohibits the broadcasting on radio or television of advertisements directed towards any religious or political end, or related to an industrial dispute. Earlier challenges to the constitutionality of...

The Parliament of the Czech Republic has passed a new Broadcasting Act, against which the President of the Republic has exercised his veto. He rejected the Act because it prevented competition by more or less entitling current broadcasters to have their licences automatically extended. However, the second parliamentary chamber overturned the veto on 26 June 2001. The Act is designed to transpose Directive 89/552/EEC on the Co-ordination of certain Provisions laid down by Law, Regulation or Administrative Action in Member States concerning the Pursuit of Television Broadcasting Activities, as amended...