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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...

In December 1999, based on Government Resolution No. 2198 (IX.9.), the Hungarian government prepared modification proposals to Act I on Radio and Television ("Media Act"). The proposed changes consist of 20 articles. The main purpose of the amendments is to harmonise the Media Act with the Council Directive 89/552 EEC as amended by Council Directive 97/36 EC ("Directive") and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television of the Council of Europe ("Convention"). According to the proposal, programme distribution will be considered as broadcasting and will be regulated in a separate chapter....

Since its installation in 1997, the Authorisation and Supervision Board of the regulatory body for the audiovisual sector (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA)) of the French-speaking Community had been very sparing in its use of the power to sanction which it holds by virtue of the Decree of 24 July 1997; only two - minorsanctions had been imposed in two and a half years, one against a radio station which had changed its broadcasting frequency without authorisation, and the other against RTL-TVI for broadcasting violent images during a news broadcast. In the space of just over one month, on...