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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...

The all-party National Heritage Committee, chaired by Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, has recently called for laws to ban media payments to witnesses in criminal trials and to restrict pre-trial publicity. The committee, whose recommendations are made in a report, Press activity affecting court cases, also called for the Contempt of Court Act 1981 (Section 2) to be strengthened (para 36), so that individual newspapers could not escape punishment where pre-trial publicity collectively caused a trial to collapse. The report added that compensation should be ordered and fines imposed by the Press Complaints...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the reasonableness of the decision of the Radio Authority that Amnesty International UK is an "unacceptable advertiser" in terms of the advertising code of practice. The Code stipulates that "No advertisment may be broadcast by, or on behalf of, any body whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature." Amnesty International had sought to run a national radio advertising campaign, during 1994, deploring the situation in Rwanda. The Court interpreted the phrase "wholly or mainly" to mean at least 75%, and, in this case, the Master of the Rolls said that "...