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On 15 June 2000, Advocate General Fennelly delivered his Opinion on joined cases C-376/98 (Germany v. European Parliament and Council) and C-74/99 (The Queen v. Secretary of State for Health and Others ex parte: Imperial Tobacco Ltd. and Others). Both cases concern the validity of E.P. and Council Directive 98/43/EC, of 6 July 1998, on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products (OJ 1998 L 213, p. 9; hereinafter: the "Directive"). In the first case the applicant is the German State;...

On 9 June 2000 the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) amended parts of the Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (Unfair Competition Act - UWG) in order to standardise what is known as comparative advertising. Previously such advertising was not expressly regulated in Germany. In most cases, the courts used to classify comparative advertising as anti-competitive. The amendment transposes European Parliament and Council Directive 97/55/EC of 6 October 1997 into German law. The Directive itself contains individual conditions that must be fulfilled if comparative advertising is to be considered legal....

In an Order of 3 July 2000, the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State), the supreme administrative court in France, annulled Communiqué 414 of the CSA (French Independent Broadcasting Authority) of 22 February 2000, which authorised the television advertising of the Internet sites of companies in sectors banned from advertising (press, distribution, cinema, literary works) under the terms of Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992 (see IRIS 2000-3: 12). The Council of State thus upheld the request of professional organisations in the film and radio sectors, which thought that the CSA's decision was...

As a result of an amendment to the Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o zwalczaniu nieuczciwej konkurencji oraz o zmianie ustawy o radiodonii i telewizji (Unfair Competition Act of 16 April 1993), adopted on 16 March 2000, new regulations on comparative advertising have been introduced in Poland. Comparative advertising was previously banned as it was considered anticompetitive unless it contained information that was accurate and useful to customers. There was no more detailed definition of the concept of comparative advertising. According to the amendment, comparative advertising includes commercials in...

A draft of amendments to the Broadcasting Act 1992 adopted on 31 March 2000 by the Parliament provides for harmonization of Polish audiovisual law with European Union standards. In accordance with the provisions contained in the Directive on "Television Without Frontiers" some new legal definitions were added, such as the definition of sponsorship, teleshopping and surreptitious advertising (the latter is banned). Advertising issues were regulated as a whole in the law; several restrictions on advertising were introduced, some of them even stricter than those stipulated by the "Television Without...