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On 20 February 1997, the State Duma passed in the first reading (for a Bill to become law, there should be three readings in the Duma, approval by the Upper House, and signing by the President) a Bill on Limitations of Circulation of Products, Services and Performances of Sexual Character in the Russian Federation. The Bill, drafted by the Committee on Culture of the Duma permits, in accordance with Article 242 of the 1997 Criminal Code, the sale and distribution of legal pornography (as opposed to pornographic material which is considered to be illegal ). At the same time, for the first time...

On 25 March 1997 the Monopolies Commission reached its decision on the complaint lodged by Canal Plus against TF1 . Canal Plus claimed that the specific discounts TF1 allowed to advertisers devoting more than half their budget to the channel, and the additional discount for advertisers paying TF1 between FF 1.5 and 45 million for advertising, where this represented between 80 and 100% of their television advertising budget, constituted abuse of a dominant position. The Commission refused the precautionary measures Canal Plus claimed, although it did not deny that such practices might constitute...

The Danish Broadcasting Act was amended in December 1996. The new provisions came into force in January 1997. The background for the amendments is the political agreement from May last year between the government and all parties in the Parliament (except the left-wing Enhedslisten ) on the framework for the electronic media for 1997-2000. The main features of the amendments are the following: The two public service broadcasters Danmarks Radio (radio and TV) and TV 2 (TV only) are given increased economic freedom. The two broadcasters will be allowed to establish subsidiary companies for other...

The Court of Cassation recently set aside two decisions by the Courts of Appeal in Paris and Rennes on advertising from products which, although not themselves tobacco, evoked tobacco. The products in question carried the brand-names Camel Boots and Camel Trophy. In the first case the decision was set aside on the grounds of violation of rights of the defence. In the second case the High Court addressed the difficult matter of advertising for products commercialised by companies independent of any company manufacturing tobacco products but linked to the latter by brand-name licence agreements....

The Romanian Law on audio-visual of 20 May 1992 (No 48/1992) gives authority to the National Audio-visual Council (NAC), to formulate binding rules that implement certain provisions of the Act, for example, in the field of advertising. On 30 January 1997, the NAC issued a Decision concerning measures for the protection of mionors. This Decision prohibits televised broadcasting of programmes which may affect the physical, moral or mental development of minors due to their vicious or extremely violent nature (Art. 1). The same decision restricts the broadcasting of erotic, pornographic or extremely...