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On Tuesday the 16th of September the European Parliament urged the governments of the Member States as well as the advertising industry to take a strong and decisive position against advertisements presenting offensive or degrading stereotypes of women. The European Parliament expressed the necessity that the Member States should take all the steps needed in order to prevent any form of pornography in the media and in the advertising. In the opinion of the European deputies both pornography and other forms of degrading portrayals of women can contribute to violence against women and to the enduring...

A year ago, the Commission published a Green Paper on "Commercial Communications in the Internal Market", in which it made suggestions on removing obstacles which discrepancies between the laws of different countries created for trade in the field of transfrontier commercial communications (see IRIS 1997-5: 6). The term "commercial communications" covers all forms of advertising, direct marketing, sponsorship, sales promotion and public relations promoting products and services. The Green Paper stressed that the development of new information society services might well make for additional trade...

The "Codex", which coordinates the various Flemish regulatory provisions concerning radio and television broadcasting, is in the news again (see IRIS 1997-8: 6 and IRIS 1997-7: 5). In a Decision on 26 June 1997, taken on the basis of Article 90(3) of the EC Treaty, the European Commission tackled the exclusive right to broadcast televised advertising in Flanders. The provisions in question are firstly Article 80, paragraph 2 of the Codex, which provides that the Flemish Government may only authorise, from among the television broadcasters which belong to it or have its authorisation and direct...

Amendments to the rules on advertising breaks have been announced by the Independent Television Commission which will allow cable, satellite and digital stations to carry more teleshopping advertising. The changes will also open up the possibility of licensing for self-promotional channels and will come into effect immediately. The following changes are made: Teleshopping The EC "Television Without Frontiers (TWF)" Directive has been revised (see IRIS 1997-7: 6-7) to allow up to a maximum of eight teleshopping 'windows' per day. A teleshopping window can last for a maximum duration of fifteen minutes...

In April 1997, the Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA) adopted a number of important decisions concerning the audio-visual sector. Decision No 36/1997 establishes the obligation for holders of broadcasting licences granted by the National Audiovisual Council to inform the Council within 10 days of its occurrence of any change of a technical nature or concerning the company's legal status, the structure of its company capital, its programme schedules, address, telephone or fax number, etc. The 10-day period also applies when a licence-holder ceases to meet the conditions for granting the...