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On 25 December 1998 the first Act regulating advertising in the Republic of Uzbekistan was passed. Until then, advertising had been regulated only by presidential edicts and government decrees. According to the new Act, "advertising means specific information about legal and natural persons or products for the generation of income". The Act does not cover political advertising. Experts in Uzbekistan have noted that this Act is generally very similar to Advertising Acts in the other States which were formerly part of the Soviet Union. Its most important statutory provisions are: - all advertisements...

On 1 January 1999 the Act amending the Regional Radio Act came into force, bringing various changes to private radio, which is still a recent phenomenon in Austria. Private radio broadcasting licences were awarded for the first time in 1993, but only after a long gap, due to a decision of the Constitutional Court, were more than 50 licences for regional and local radio awarded at the beginning of 1998. The regulations contained in the Regional Radio Act ( Regionalradiogesetz - RRG) are specifically restricted, in accordance with Section 1 (1), to the broadcasting of regional and local radio programmes...

In a judgement delivered on 2 September 1998, the Brussels Court of Appeal overturned a judgement by the Brussels Commercial Court on 29 December 1997 which, in response to an application by the private-sector channel RTL-TVi, had prohibited RTBF inserting advertising breaks in American series broadcast in the afternoons. In the initial proceedings, the Commercial Court held that the advertising breaks were contrary to RTBF's contractual management regulations, according to which "advertising may not interrupt programmes, particularly films, or the various sequences of any one programme". On...

In a judgement of 15 December 1998 the Niedersachsen Higher Administrative Court ( Oberverwaltungsgericht OVG) dismissed the appeal of the television company RTL Television against a decision of the Land Media Authority of Niedersachsen. The subject of the original dispute was the observation that RTL Television, in broadcasting a programme, had violated the ban on surreptitious advertising. A repeat broadcast of the programme had also been forbidden. The children's programme concerned had been devoted to the "Barbie Doll", which was celebrating its thirtieth birthday. During the programme, phrases...

In a recently published judgement, the Wiesbaden Regional Court ( Landgericht) ruled that comparative advertising on the Internet was not in itself inadmissible (see also IRIS 1998-3:3 and IRIS 1998-7:6). In 1997 the defendant, a health insurance company, had introduced a facility on its Internet site enabling people to compare its prices with those of other health insurance companies. If the user inputted his or her personal data and other information, the company's premium appeared on the screen. Another health insurance company could then be selected and its own premium would be shown. The premiums...