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In IRIS 1995-9: 9 we announced the adoption of a new law on advertising in the Russian Federation. At that time, the Act was only available in Russian language. An edited text of the law in English language is now available throught the Observatory.

As already reported in IRIS 1995-9:13, a new Act on the electronic mass media has come into force. The text of the act, adopted on 8 September 1995, is now available. The Act begins with a general section containing definitions and basic provisions. Within the meaning of the act, electronic mass media include, in particular, radio, television, cable radio, cable television, satellite television and computer television. Within the meaning of the act broadcasting is defined as the development and dissemination of programmes intended for reception by the general public. Objectivity and neutrality...

On Thursday, 14 December 1995 the national Parliament adopted the final text of the Cable Telecommunications Act. Voting was not unanimous, with 186 votes in favour from the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Worker's Party) and the CIU (Centre) and 126 votes against from the Grupo Popular (Right Wing). This is the final stage of legislation which has given rise to much controversy and objections from the political opposition and the audiovisual sector. Amendments and criticism of the provisions of the Act have come from Antena 3 Televisión and a number of nation-wide consortia (including the operator Multivisión)...

By Presidential Decree of 23 December 1995, the Italian Council of Ministers introduced some important modifications on the rules governing access to pay TV broadcasting. According to the previous law, only two channels were allowed to broadcast in an encrypted fomat, namely Tele+1 and Tele+2, both partly owned by foreign investors (Kirch and Murdoch) and partly by Italian companies (Berluscon's Fininvest holds a 10% share). The new Decree gives all the other Italian private commercial broadcasters the possibility to broadcast in an encrypted format. In order to do this, they must obtain an authorisation...

IRIS 1995-9:13 included a report on the authorisation of HOT (Home Order Television) tele-shopping programmes by the Bavarian Central Office for New Media ( Bayerische Landeszentrale für Neue Medien BLM). This authorisation in Bavaria was challenged by RTL+, and as a result of provisional legal protection proceedings before the Munich Administrative Court the BLM was obliged to provisionally prohibit inclusion in the Bavarian cable network. The claim was based on the opinion that the authorisation did not comply with Article 27-3 of the Agreement on Broadcasting between the Federal States in United...