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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...

On 21 March 2000, the Minister for Culture, Ms. Elsebeth Gerner, presented a draft concerning the broadcast of TV Services. In the following days the initiative was intensively discussed in the press as the draft presents controversial points of view. On 28 March 2000, the government parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Radical Party, entered into a political settlement with the Socialist People´s Party and the Centre Democrats to be in force for the period 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2004. The main points of the agreement concern the financing of public service programmes, TV advertising...

Advertising on television for literary works, the cinema, the press and distribution sector is at present prohibited by Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992. This restriction was originally justified basically by the desire to protect certain media, and in particular the written press, from a migration of advertisers to television. Thus the prohibition as regards distribution was intended specifically to maintain the financial advantage enjoyed by the regional daily newspapers. It was also important to prevent the major groups in the sectors concerned from being the only ones able to have access...