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In response to a proposal by the Federal Department for Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ( Eidgenössischen Departements für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation - UVEK), the Swiss Government adopted principles for future licensing practice on 25 February 1998, setting its media policy on a new and more liberal basis. In its report, the Government assumes that, as licensing authority, it enjoys a wide measure of discretion, since no one apart from Swiss Radio and Television (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft - SRG) is in principle entitled to a licence. It is...

The fifteen Land media authorities, which are responsible for supervising private broadcasting, have issued new joint guidelines on advertising, to ensure separation of advertising and programme material, and on television and radio sponsorship. Adopted on 16 December 1997, the new regulations have been in force since 21 April 1998. They implement Article 46 of the Agreement between Federal States on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrages - RStV), which requires the Land media authorities to introduce such regulations. The advertising guidelines embody the law's requirements concerning the use of...

The work on the Bill "State protection of moral health and on stronger control over the use of products of sexual character" started in 1995, when the initial text in the Legislative assembly of Omsk region was developed. On 16 January 1998, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the Bill in the second reading (on the first reading, see IRIS 1997-4: 10). 226 Deputes supported the Bill, 104 Deputes voted against it and 113 abstained. Now the Bill is being prepared for the third reading. If the Bill is adopted in the third reading by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council...

A decree dated 6 May 1998 amends the descriptions of duties and terms of reference of the public-service television channels France 2 and France 3, in an attempt to close the gap between the legal systems governing private channels and public-service channels, thereby making supervision by the regulatory body, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) easier. The decree of 6 May covers firstly the relations between France 2 and France 3 and audiovisual producers. In 1997 these producers - through their main professional union, the audiovisual production union ( USPA - Union Syndicale de la...

The Italian Parliament has approved a law (hereafter called "the law") which, on the one hand, regulates the ways in which television programmes may be interrupted by commercial breaks and, on the other hand, transposes the provisions of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive (as amended by Directive 97/36/EC) which requires that national broadcasting in each EC Member State must contain a certain proportion of European production. The law also postpones the deadlines for the adoption of the national frequency plans and for the awards of new concessions for terrestrial television broadcasting....