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On 13 December 1995, in a second reading, the European Parliament amended the common position of the Council on a directive on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts. Any type of contract concerning goods or services between a supplier and a consumer under an organized distance sales or service-provision scheme run by the supplier, who, for the purpose of the contract, makes exclusive use of one or more means of distance communication up to and including the moment at which the contract is concluded, is regarded as a `distance contract'. Teleshopping programmes come under...

The Standing Committee on Transfrontier Television brings together representatives of the contracting Parties (currently 13) to the European Convention on Transfrontier Television, as well as observer delegates from non-contracting Parties. Under Article 21 of the Convention the Standing Committee is empowered to give Opinions on the interpretation of the provisions of the instrument. At its 7th meeting (21-22 November 1995), the Standing Committee adopted an Opinion on the application of the Convention's provisions on advertising to "infomercials".

In a letter dated 3 October 1995, the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) has published its analysis of the television programmes of RTL4 and RTL5. In the letter to the Dutch under-secretary for Culture, the Media Authority finds that a number of RTL-programmes still violate the 1989 EC-directive. According to the Commissariaat voor de Media , several programmes contain surreptitious advertising and lack a clear separation between programmes and commercials. The Media Authority - which reached similar conclusions in 1992 and 1993 - and RTL have a profoundly different interpretation...

In two recent cases the Swedish Broadcasting Commission decided upon the applicability of the Swedish Satellite Broadcasting Act on Swedish broadcasting companies established abroad. One of the cases concerned TV3. The Swedish Satellite Broadcasting Act applies to broadcasting companies established in Sweden. The Commission had to determine the criteria on which basis a company can be considered to be a "broadcasting company". The Act defines "broadcasting company" as a company which puts together and is responsible for the programming. In the case of TV3 two companies would come under this definition:...

On 26 April 1995, the Supreme Council of the Ukraine put forward a Bill that amends and adds to the law on radio and television broadcasting of 21 December 1993. The Bill provides for new regulations relating to two new organisations, the Ukrainian Radio and Television National Council and the Ukrainian State Audiovisual Committee. The Bill also gives wider powers to the National Audiovisual Council and introduces provisions for the Ukrainian Radio and Television National Council, set up by Presidential decree on 3 January 1995 (IRIS 1995-2:8). According to the Bill, the President of the Ukraine,...