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On 23 May and 9 June 1997 both houses of the Czech Republic's parliament adopted the new Radio and Television Broadcasting Act. This contains inter alia regulations for increasing by 50% the fee charged to participants for receiving broadcasts. However there were no amendments to the amount of air-time public-service broadcasters are allowed to devote to advertising. Although there was one proposed amendment aimed at reducing total broadcasting time for advertising material from 1% to 0.2% of daily broadcasting time, the parliament did not adopt either this or the amendment aimed at prohibiting...

These three joined cases are all concerned with television advertising broadcasts by TV3 (which is based in England) via satellite to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, but can also be received (in the first case) in Sweden on home channel TV 4. The image is always the same, the acoustic signals are in the language of the country concerned. The first case concerns a commercial for a children's magazine about dinosaurs, which is printed in Italy and distributed in Sweden, by a Swedish subsidiary (De Agostini) of an Italian business group. The commercial has been broadcast without raising any problems...

On 26 June 1997, the European Commission adopted a decision establishing that the advertising monopoly awarded by the Flemish Community to the private commercial television station VTM is incompatible with Community law. The Flemish Executive Power had awarded to VTM, through decisions of 1987 and 1991 taken pursuant to the Flemish media legislation, an 18-year monopoly including the right to be the single private television station to target the entire Flemish Community and, in so doing, broadcast advertisements. This monopoly was challenged by a complaint lodged with the Commission by VT4, a...

A Broadcasting Bill has been submitted to the Parliament of the Republic of Estonia; at present the 1994 Broadcasting Act is still in force. The main differences between the two lie in the extension of the provisions concerning advertising. Thus in future advertising time may not exceed 15% of daily programme time (at present 20%), and in any one hour no more than 12 minutes of advertising may be broadcast. The scope for broadcasting direct sale offers will in future be limited to a maximum of 3 hours daily (limited at present to one hour). A further change involves the special provisions governing...

The recently amended Norwegian Broadcasting Regulation has entered into force. The new set of rules replaces several former provisions and unites all rules relating to broadcasting in one single Regulation. The amended Broadcasting Regulation implements the Directive on `Television Without Frontiers' in more detail than before. It explicitly stipulates that the broadcasters are obliged to reserve 50% of their transmission time for European productions, and 10% for independent productions. The already existing prohibition concerning the broadcasting of advertising in conjunction with childrens'...