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On 19 October 2016, the Romanian President promulgated Law no. 187/2016, a modification of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002 with further modifications and completions (Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 cu modificările și completările ulterioare). The modification came into force on 20 October 2016. Another modification of the Audiovisual Law, with regard to prohibiting the advertising of medicinal products and pharmacies in audiovisual media, was finally rejected by the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 15 October 2016 (see inter alia IRIS 2013-6/27, IRIS 2014-1/37, IRIS 2014-1/38,...

The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a number of complaints regarding an advertisement that was part of (Coca Cola) Sprite’s “#BrutallyRefreshing” campaign. The advert appeared on two Irish websites, Joe.ie, a men’s lifestyle website, and WaterfordWhispers, a popular Irish satirical news website. The ASAI received ten complaints in relation to the campaign. The advert featured bottles of Sprite Zero and regular Sprite alongside the following captions; “she’s seen more ceilings… than Michelangelo” “you’re not popular…you’re easy” “a 2 at 10 is a 10 at 2”. All of the complainants...

On 7 December, the Senate finally adopted, by 213 votes to 0, the bill tabled by a Green Party MP banning commercial advertising in children’s programmes on public television. Article 1 of the bill supplements Article 14 of the Act of 30 September 1986 and states that advertising in these programmes will be regulated under a Council of State decree. It also gives the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) a monitoring and advisory role. Each year, the CSA will have to submit to parliament “a report evaluating the actions taken by audiovisual communication...

On 10 November 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in DTS v. European Commission, on whether the financing of the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is compatible with EU rules on state aid. At issue were amendments introduced under Law No 8/2009 on the funding of RTVE (Ley 8/2009 de financiación de la Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española), which provided that advertising, teleshopping, sponsorship and pay-per-view services would no longer be sources of funding for RTVE. Instead, the only commercial revenue that would be available would be income which...

On 18 October 2016, the National Audiovisual Council (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului) adopted a decision on the rules for the audiovisual coverage of the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections, scheduled in Romania on 11 December 2016 (see IRIS 2004-3/33, IRIS 2005-1/34, IRIS 2008-10/27, IRIS 2009-1/29, IRIS 2009-6/28, IRIS 2009-10/24, IRIS 2011-3/29, IRIS 2011-9/31, IRIS 2012-6/30, IRIS 2014-5/27, and IRIS 2014-10/30). The electoral campaign in audiovisual media starts on 11 November 2016 and ends on 9 December 2016 at 07.00 a.m. local time, 24 hours before voting starts. The...