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The Irish Supreme Court has upheld a decision of the High Court (see IRIS 1998-6: 7) in a case concerning radio and television broadcasts in relation to constitutional referendums. Under the Irish Constitution, there must be a referendum before any amendment to the Constitution can be made. In 1995 a referendum to remove the constitutional ban on divorce gave rise to much litigation regarding the conduct of referendum campaigns. Just before the referendum, the Supreme Court held that the government had acted unconstitutionally - inter alia by offending the constitutional guarantee of equality...

On 17 January Raphael Hadas-Lebel, a member of the Conseil d'État, submitted the report of the working party on "terrestrial digital television" of which he was chairman to Catherine Trautmann, Minister for Culture and Communication. The working party had been set up in October 1999 with the brief of analysing and summarising the many contributions received in response to a wide-ranging consultation of the professionals concerned. These recommendations are to be used by the Government in drawing up various provisions on terrestrial digital broadcasting for integration in the Audiovisual Act, which...

Article 48 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) provides that terms of reference fixed by decree should define the legal framework for the operations and obligations of the two national television companies. A decree of 31 December 1999 has now approved the amendments to the terms of reference for France 2 and France 3, originally defined in 1994 and already amended in 1996 and 1998 (see IRIS 1998-6: 10). On 15 December the official audiovisual monitoring body (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - CSA), to which the matter was referred in application of Article 48 of the 1986 act (as amended),...

The Bundesrat (Swiss Federal Council), meeting in cabinet on 19 January 2000, has laid down the principles governing revision of the Radio- und Fernsehgesetzes (Radio and Television Act - RTVG). The new broadcasting arrangements will operate on the basis of a dual system. On the one hand, media enterprises are to be subject to market forces, with government influence reduced to a minimum and advertising and sponsoring rules relaxed in line with European standards. The objective therefore is one of the deregulation of the private sector. On the other hand, there is a strong public service sector...

The Statute "On Administrative Responsibility of Juridical Persons for Violation of Legislation of the Russian Federation on Elections and Referenda" was adopted by the State Duma (parliament) on 5 November 1999 and entered into force on 8 December. The Statute consists of 25 articles, the majority of which are devoted to procedural issues. Without its procedural rules the Statute would be inoperable because the ordinary rules of administrative procedure, which are part of the (1984) Russian Code of Administrative Infractions, are intended for the assignment of responsibility to natural persons...