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In a decision of 12 October 2017, the Austrian Verfassungsgerichtshof (Constitutional Court) ruled that the legislator was entitled to exempt Internet advertisers from paying the advertising tax levied on print media and radio ads (case no. E 2025/2016-16). The decision was taken in response to a total of 23 complaints from newspaper and magazine publishers and radio stations, who had claimed that the advertising tax was discriminatory and that the 2000 Advertising Tax Act was unconstitutional. According to Article 1(1) and (2) of the Act, the advertising tax applies to advertising services provided...

The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) issued a statement on November 22, asking television stations to stop broadcasting an advertising spot by a private insurance company. The regulator acted after receiving complaints and took the decision after watching the advertising spot. The advertising spot concerned the company SIGAL-UNIQA Group, or more specifically, an offer it had on private pension funds. AMA decided that the spot openly violated consumer rights “by providing them with information on this specific company only and showing contempt for the public pension insurance system in the Republic...

On 28 June 2017, the Icelandic regulator for the media, Fjölmiðlanefnd (the Media Commission), published an opinion in respect of television programmes featuring three political parties, broadcast on the TV channel Hringbraut, and on the website Hringbraut.is. Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 29 October 2016. Twelve political parties ran in the elections and prior to the elections several election programmes were broadcast on Hringbraut featuring three of the 12 parties. The programmes were also accessible on the Hringbraut.is website. In October 2016, the Media Commission received...

Totally in line with the proposals put forward this summer by the Senate’s Committee on Culture (see IRIS 2017-8/17), and in an attempt to counter the stalled professional negotiations and address the urgent need for more appropriate regulations, Minister for Culture Françoise Nyssen has set up a mediation process in respect of media chronology. This has been deemed to be “a delicate task” and “a priority for the Government”; it forms part of the next stage in negotiations undertaken by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (French National Centre for the Cinema and Animated Image...

The plenary of the Supreme Court decided that amendments to the law on RIK - the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation -, L. Chapter 300A, were in breach of Article 28 (equality before the law) of the Constitution of Cyprus. The amendments subject the operation of new channels to the condition that the economic viability of existing audiovisual media service organisations would not be threatened, and further prohibit the inclusion of advertising and commercial announcements addressed to the territory of the Republic of Cyprus in re-transmitted broadcasts from other EU or third countries. The Court decided...