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On 14 April 1999 the leaders of the State and Senate Chancelleries of the German Bundesländer agreed to amend the Agreement between Federal States on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RStV), which regulates public and private broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany. In view of the need to transpose the provisions of the revised "Television without Frontiers" Directive into domestic law, the discussions initiated in January 1998 concerning a revised Agreement (see IRIS 1998-3:10) were concluded. The Land presidents will make a final decision on the amendments on 24 June 1999. Then, once...

In late 1998, the Constitutional Court had stated its startling conclusions regarding the (always contested) «advertising tax» levied by the city of Vienna. The relevant legal provisions state that «a tax is to be paid to the city of Vienna for advertisements within the boundaries of the city of Vienna. [...] Advertisements [...] also include any external advertisements by broadcasters (radio and television) which originate from studios located in the city of Vienna». The Vienna advertising tax amounts to 10 % of the net revenues from commercial advertisements. The starting point was an attempt...

On 5 March 1999 the Italian public broadcaster RAI filed a complaint before the authority in charge of monitoring adherence to domestic and European rules on insertion and duration of advertising according to Art. 1 of legge 249 of 1997 ( Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni). RAI argued that the commercial broadcasters R.T.I. (Mediaset group), which controls three national channels, and TMC (Cecchi Gori group), which controls two national channels, should be held responsible for violation of the rules concerning the interruption of programs with commercial advertising, as well as the rules...

Complaints procedures have been brought against both RTL and DSF concerning alleged breaches of advertising regulations. The supervisory Lower Saxony Regional Media Authority ( NLM) made a complaint about the splitting of the screen between rounds of a boxing match shown on RTL. On 27 February 1999, RTL twice split the screen between rounds of a boxing match into a large advertising window and a smaller window showing pictures of the boxing venue. According to previous interpretations of the rule on separation of advertising and programme material, set out in § 7.3.2 of the Agreement between the...

The Independent Television Commission (ITC), the UK regulator of private broadcasting, has fined a cable company £10,000 for breaches of its Rules on the Amount and Scheduling of Advertising in relation to local advertising. The amount of the fine is relatively small compared to some other recent fines levied by the Commission (£2,000,000 in one other recent case) but it does show the importance of financial penalties even in the case of relatively minor breaches. The company, Telewest, had been given a formal warning by the ITC in March 1998 after three incidents when complaints were upheld about...