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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...

On 22 June 2000, the Parliament of Moldova passed amendments to the Act on Television and Radio of 3 October 1995. According to the amended Article 23 (1) of the Television and Radio Act, retransmission from foreign countries of programmes by means of "broadcasting networks and transmitters" which are state property shall be performed by public or private companies holding a broadcasting license and if necessary of a technical license, or having a contract to rent the "broadcasting networks and transmitters." The second part of the amended article prohibits broadcasting companies from combining...

The Radio Authority, established by the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996 to license and regulate Independent Radio, adopted and published its original Advertising and Sponsorship Code ten years ago. The 1990 Act obliges the Authority to review the Code from time to time. In March 2000, the Authority initiated a consultation process with the aim of revising and modernizing the Code. The new Code was published on 4 January 2001. Broadly, the aims of the revision are to (a) bring the Code into line with current and pending legislation (b) restructure the Code, to highlight the more important rules...