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The new version of the Act containing important amendments to the previous Election and Referendum Act was published on 6 April 1999 and has entered into force. Five of the 48 paragraphs of the Act are concerned with amendments to current provisions regulating mass-media coverage of election campaigns. Among the most significant provisions of the Election Act (including its amended version) are the following: - once a complete list of election candidates has been drawn up, all candidates and parties on that list are equally entitled to election advertising in the mass media; - all state broadcasting...

Radio and television broadcasting is organised at three levels in Denmark. "Danmarks Radio" (DR) and "TV2" are public service stations with nation-wide range. TV2 also has a particular obligation to serve regional interests. Furthermore, regional communication is undertaken by regional broadcasters connected to DR and TV2, as well as other (licensed) radio- and TV stations, such as independent satellite or cable broadcasters. Finally, the local interests are served by about 50 local TV stations and 300 radio stations. Radio and TV broadcasting is subject to the Broadcasting Act 1992, which since...

The fact that the automobile associations ACS and TCS were named as partners of the Swiss radio station DRS in connection with traffic information constituted an infringement of the ban on political advertising set out in the Radio and Television Act ( Radio- und Fernsehgesetz ) as it took place in the run-up to a Swiss vote on traffic issues. The frequent mention of the two automobile associations as sponsors of traffic information had already been the subject of a complaint about two years previously. On that occasion, the Independent Radio and Television Complaints Authority ( Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz...

The second channel of the Swiss television company DRS (SF2) broadcast a large number of matches in the football World Cup held in France in special programme blocks. During the commercial breaks, SF2 regularly showed an advertising spot for the company " Feldschlösschen ". This commercial showed two football teams going to the dressing rooms at the end of a match. The players of the winning team, together with one member of the losing team, were seen gathered round a crate of beer. The complainant claimed that the advertisement breached the ban on advertising of alcoholic beverages as provided...

In a judgement delivered on 1 April 1999, the Higher Administrative Court ( Oberverwaltungsgericht OVG ) in Berlin dismissed the appeal of the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority against the decision of the Berlin Administrative Court ( Verwaltungsgericht VG ) of 17 December 1998. In its decision, the VG Berlin had held the practice followed by the television broadcaster n-tv, using a crawling display simultaneously with the normal picture for advertising purposes, to be admissible (see IRIS 1999-2:6). In its judgement, the OVG agreed with the court of first instance that the crawling text, as...