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A decision taken on 13 February 2001 by the Conseil de la concurrence (the French Council on Competition) in a case brought to its attention by CANAL+ dealt with the practice of market share discounts operated by the company TF1 during the period 1994/1997 concerning the sale of advertising space on television. This practice involves allowing specific reductions to advertisers whose proportion of advertising expenditure on TF1 is greater than the channel's share of the television advertising market. Referring to a previous decision (18 June 1996) and to the decision of the European Commission on...

In January 2001, the Board of Directors of the Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española (the national public broadcaster - RTVE) approved a Resolution regulating advertising on Televisión Española (TVE, the national public TV broadcaster, which belongs to the RTVE group). The aim of this Resolution is to update RTVE's regulation on advertising, in order to bring it into line with the Spanish legislation in this field. The text of the Resolution almost coincides with that of the Chapter on Advertising and Sponsorship of the national Act 25/1994 (as amended by the national Act 22/1999), on the implementation...

Every year, the Italian Parliament adopts an act called Legge comunitaria (European Community Act) in order to comply with the obligations deriving from its membership of the European Communities. The main aim of this act is to ensure the implementation of EC directives in due time to avoid infringement procedures for lack of implementation. According to the procedure laid down by the Norme generali sulla partecipazione dell'Italia al processo normativo comunitario e sulle procedure di esecuzione degli obblighi comunitari (Rules on the implementation of European Community legislation, Act of 9...

The political Media Agreement concluded on 28 March 2000, for the period 2001 - 2004 between the Danish government and the political parties Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist Popular Party) and Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre-Democrats) has been codified by the Lov om ændring af lov om radio- og fjernsynsvirksomhed og lov om indkomstbeskatning af aktieselskaber m.v. (Act no. 1272 of 20 December 2000 amending the Broadcasting Act and the Act on Income Taxation of Limited Companies). The Act entered into force on 1 January 2001. The principal amendments to the Broadcasting Act are as follows: 1. Public...

In a judgment of 8 November 2000, the first chamber of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) overturned rulings by the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH), which had prohibited the appellant, a press firm, from printing three advertisements for the Benetton company. The BGH had deemed the advertisements, which contained images of child labour, a duck covered in oil and an HIV carrier, to be immoral on the grounds that the portrayal of serious human and animal suffering was likely to arouse feelings of sympathy which were being exploited without good reason for...