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At the beginning of the second quarter of the year 2000 television fees in Romania were increased to 30,000 Leu (ROL, just under 3 DEM) at a time when the yearly average salary is currently 1,750,000 ROL (around 200 DEM). Public service television in Romania has more than three and half million viewers. Under Article 43 of law n° 41/1994 on the organisation and operation of the Romanian radio and television companies of 16 June 1994 (see IRIS 1998-8: 9), public broadcasting is financed from several different sources. Alongside state subsidies consisting of television fees paid by viewers, which...

On 11 November 1999 Latvia amended its Radio and Television Law. That Law was originally adopted in 1995 along the lines of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. Following the amendments to the Convention, the text of the act needed to be amended as well. The change to the Latvian Law was also important in view of the country's intention to enter the European Union and to harmonize its legislation with that of the European Union. Some new definitions were added such as the definitions of "teleshopping" and "sponsorship" (Article 2). According to the text of the act, "teleshopping"...

Pursuant to the Communications Act of 31 July 1997, no. 249 (Istituzione dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni e norme sui sistemi delle telecomunicazioni e radiotelevisivo, see IRIS 1997-8: 10) on 1 March 2000 the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (the Italian Communications Authority -AGC) adopted the regolamento concernente la diffusione via satellite di programmi televisivi (regulation no. 127/00/CONS concerning satellite television broadcasting). The Regulation applies to: 1) Italian broadcasters whose programmes are received in States Parties to the European Convention...

A presidential decree (no. 100/2000) has just been published in the official gazette, transposing into domestic law the provisions of Directive 97/36/EC of 30 June 1997. The decree covers the full text of Directive 89/552/EEC on "Television without frontiers", as amended in 1997. In accordance with this decree, the Minister for the Press and the Mass Media may, further to a suitable opinion or following a proposal from the National Radio and Television Council (NRTC), order an advance ban on the re-broadcasting of programmes broadcast by television bodies under the supervision of other Member...

On 22 December the Conseil de la concurrence (Restrictive Practices Board) gave its decision on an application made by an editor of television programmes on video against the company Télévision Française 1 (TF1) concerning two types of practices which the editor felt restricted competition. Under the amended Decree of 17 January 1990, TF1 is required to devote 3% of its turnover to commissioning original audiovisual work. However, according to the Restrictive Practices Board, the channel in fact makes its undertaking to finance these works conditional on the producer's acceptance of one of TF1's...