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On 8 February 2016, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Bulgaria dismissed the action brought by the retailer Lidl Bulgaria EOOD and Co. against the decision of the Commission on Protection of Competition (the Commission) and confirmed the decision of the lower court. The Commission had imposed on Lidl a fine of 0.1% of its revenues for 2012, or 370,859 leva (approx. EUR 189,620), for a misleading advertising campaign employing the slogan “The best from Bulgaria. The best from Europe”. The campaign involved outdoor, print, and TV advertising. In the TV commercial, a young woman...

On 17 February 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered its judgment (C-314/14) on television advertising. The ruling sheds light on the proper interpretation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (2010/13/EU; AVMSD). The preceding television directive from 1989 as amended in 1997 and 2007 was implemented by the Finnish Act on Television and Radio Operations (744/1998; TV and Radio Act) and amendments thereto. Subsequently, the provisions at issue of the TV and Radio Act have been codified in the Information Society Code (917/2014; ISC) (with minor amendments) which...

Оn 8 December 2015, the Ukrainian Supreme Rada (Parliament) adopted the Act «On the international broadcasting system in Ukraine» (Про систему іномовлення в Україні). The document creates a legal basis for the activities of the state-run company of broadcasting abroad. The new law is considered one of the stages of the international service broadcasting reform undertaken by the newly-established Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine. According to this act, the international broadcasting system of Ukraine comprises the Ukrainian National Information Agency “Ukrinform”, established in 1918, and...

On 9 January 2016, the President of Romania sent a request to the Romanian Parliament for a review of the Law prohibiting the advertising of medicinal products and pharmacies in audiovisual media. The leader of the main parliamentary party, PSD (Partidul Social Democrat), had previously asked the President to request the review of the Law because of a technical error which occurred during the voting in the Senate of the mentioned draft Act. The Law had been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Parliament) on 13 October 2015 and by the Senate (upper Chamber) on 14 December 2015...

On 12 January 2016, Decree No. 380 of 29 December 2015, implementing the state budget of the Republic of Bulgaria for 2016, was promulgated in State Gazette, issue 3/2016. The State Budget Act was promulgated in the State Gazette, issue 96/2015 on 9 December 2015. The State Budget Act provides for an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Radio of BGN 42,112,000 (~ EUR 21.530.000) and an on-budget subsidy for the Bulgarian National Television of BGN 65,147,000 (EUR 33.310.000) according to Article 1, paragraph 2. The sum of the state funding received has not changed in comparison to the previous...