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On 8 February 2001 the Croatian Parliament passed the new Zakon o Hrvatskoj radiotelevizji (Law on Croatian Radiotelevision - HRT) and is about to significantly change the TV landscape in Croatia from 2002 onwards. The new Law states that the public broadcaster HRT shall privatise its third network within one year, while its section Odasilja´ci i veze (Transmitters and Links) will become a separate state owned public company by 1 January 2002. The Law also plans a further division of HRT in Hrvatska televizija (Croatian Television) and Hrvatski radio (Croatian Radio) by 1 July 2002. HRT will also...

By granting national broadcasting licences to three so-called self-advertising TV channels, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Conference of Directors of the Land Media Authorities - DLM) has declared that Telekom-TV, Sparkassen-TV and Bahn-TV are not in breach of German media law. While Telekom-TV and Sparkassen-TV broadcast a mixture of self-advertising programmes and material from n-tv, available only on the premises of the companies concerned and their customers, Bahn-TV is planning to show purely self-advertising content. All three channels are classified under media law as...

On 30 January 2001, the Republic of Kazakhstan's new Code on Administrative Offences was signed into law by the President of the Republic. General provisions of the Code introduce new forms of administrative sanctions such as the confiscation of the means used in committing an offence, and the revocation or suspension of licenses or other form of special authorisation to engage in a certain type of activity. These sanctions can be used complementary to the imposition of other administrative sanctions such as fines, warnings, etc. Chapter 23 of the Code deals with administrative offences in the...

The Broadcasting Bill 1999 was passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas (Parliament) and signed into law on 14 March 2001. It paves the way for digital broadcasting. It makes provision in Part II for the supply of programme material, including transmission by digital means, and for the establishment of a transmission company (s.5) and a multiplex company (s.8). It also covers digital content contracts (s.12) and electronic programme guides (s.16). Part III deals with standards in broadcasting. The Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC), established by statute in 1988 to regulate the...

In the United Kingdom, non-broadcast advertising (such as press, leaflet and cinema advertising) is subject to the code of the Advertising Standards Authority, a self-regulatory body established by the advertising industry itself. The code does not have a direct basis in statute. The Authority published an adjudication under the code, having received a complaint from a health authority, to the effect that a leaflet promoting health products, published by Matthias Rath BV, was in breach of the code. The company applied for judicial review on the basis that this breached the European Convention on...