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At its plenary session of 8 February 2001, the State Duma of the Russian Federation considered the draft law on the amendments to Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising". The draft law, which was submitted to the State Duma by the Astrakhan Regional Representative Assembly, makes alterations to paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising" (1995) by totally prohibiting the interruption of educational programs, radio shows and feature films by advertisements. In the current version of the Law, advertising during broadcasts of radio shows or feature films...

By means of an amendment to the Burgerlijk Wetboek (Civil Code), Directive 97/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 1997 amending Directive 84/450/EEC concerning misleading advertising so as to include comparative advertising was transposed into Dutch law. The Directive states that comparative advertising is, in principle, admissible in the European Community, provided a number of carefully defined criteria are met. In order to transpose the Directive, an new Article 194a was added to the Dutch Civil Code, defining comparative advertising and explaining under what conditions...

The first important steps undertaken by the new Government of Serbia have repealed the 1998 Law on Public Information of Serbia and made changes to the 1991 Serbian Law on Radio Television. The fate of the 1998 Law on Public Information was pretty much as expected - first, on 5 January 2001, the Federal Constitutional Court published its Ruling on the constitutionality of that Law (see Official Gazette of FR Yugoslavia NR. 1/2001-4). The Ruling found the following articles to be in breach of "FRY Constitution, international law and federal law": Art. 17, Art. 26 para 1, Art. 27, Art. 38 para 3,...

Following the adoption of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2000, several pieces of subsidiary legislation have been published and since then have come into force. The 2000 legislative package comes in the light of Malta's efforts to implement the Council of Europe's Transfrontier Television Convention (signed 1991 and ratified in 1993) and EC Directives 89/552/EEC and 97/36/EC. In 2000 Malta tacitly ratified the Protocol amending the convention on Transfrontier Television. A few points have been selected to highlight the legislative background of these recent legislative changes: The Broadcasting...

Last year, the Independent Television Commission opened a consultation on the approach to regulation concerning interactive services (see ITC news release of 29 February 2000). The key elements of interactive services were recognised to be (a) viewer choice and (b) viewer responsibility. The spin-off is the potential for certain rules to be amended or disapplied. The consultation related to the two main forms of interactive services: "dedicated interactive services" and "enhanced programme services". The former are "stand-alone services not related to a broadcast programme but accessed primarily...