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The Spanish Parliament has finally approved an Act incorporating the revised "Television Without Frontiers" Directive into Spanish Law. This Act amends Law 25/1994, which implemented the original "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The new Act introduces some important amendments: - According to the new Art. 2 of Law 25/1994, the provisions of this law shall apply to terrestrial, satellite and cable TV, and to all public and private broadcasters. Until now, Law 25/1994 did not apply to thematic channels distributed via satellite, and only a few of its provisions applied to the programmes...

On 24 June 1999 Advocate General Jacobs delivered his Opinion with regard to case C-6/98, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Rundfunksanstalten (ARD) v PRO Sieben Media AG (see IRIS 1998-3: 6 for the underlying dispute). The dispute concerns the interruption by advertisements of films shown on television, more precisely the method by which, under the «Television Without Frontiers» Directive, the permissible number of such interruptions is to be calculated, and arises from the wording of Article 11(3) of the Directive. According to this provision, the permissible number of interruptions is to be calculated...

The Asociación de Autocontrol de la Publicidad (the Spanish Advertising Self-Regulatory Association - AAP) has recently approved a Code of Conduct for Advertising on the Internet. The AAP was set up in 1995, and its objectives are to ensure that the self-regulatory provisions for the regulation of advertising are adhered to, and to regulate the form and content of the media. In 1996, the AAP already adopted a (general) Advertising Code of Conduct, which has been widely accepted by the industry. Now, the AAP has approved a new Code of Conduct for advertising on the Internet. The code applies only...

At the end of 1998 the Italian Committee of Advertising Practice approved the 27th edition of the Code of Advertising and Sales Promotion, which partly entered into force on 29 November 1998. Articles 13 and 15 of the Code, concerning comparative advertising, became effective only on 18 May 1999. The Code applies to advertising disseminated on all kinds of media, and thus also to television broadcasting. Article 13 provides that any advertising that copies or imitates must be avoided even if it relates to non-competitive products, particularly if it is likely to create confusion with other advertising....

Commissariaat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority), which oversees the rules formulated in the Dutch Media Act as well as the regulations based on the act, has fined TROS, one of the public broadcasting channels, for having one of their television series sponsored by two major insurance companies. The themes of each episode of the series were directly connected with the themes of the subsequent commercials. The editorial content of the series and the accompanying commercials had been attuned to such a degree that the commercials had more impact than they would have had, if they had been broadcast...