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The Portuguese Media Regulatory Agency has published a report on advertising targeting children and commercial communications in children's channels and/or programs, suggesting a lack of compliance by TV channels. Advertising forbidden food due to nutritional composition is among the most irregularities found in the report. In that matter, TV channels present a highly diverse performance, with the public broadcasting service showing that, in the period analysed, there was no advertising or commercial communications in the block programming aimed at children. The study, conducted in the...

On 5 April 2024, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority) (AP) adopted notable new guidance for Dutch political parties in relation to privacy rules during election campaigns, in the context of upcoming elections to the European Parliament, taking place in June 2024. Notably, the Guidance states that the AP asks political parties to “take note of” and conduct campaigns “as much as possible” in accordance with, and “in the spirit of”, the EU Regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising, which will generally only...

Decree no. 2024-313 of 5 April 2024 has extended the permission for television advertising for cinema that was temporarily granted under decree no. 2020-983 of 5 August 2020 and extended twice due to the lengthy closure of cinemas during the COVID-19 epidemic. According to the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM), an impact study conducted on behalf of the Direction générale des médias et des industries culturelles (General Directorate of Media and Cultural Industries –...

The Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has, for the first time, sanctioned the Twitter International Unlimited Company, owner of the video-sharing platform X, for violating the ban on gambling advertising, pursuant to Article 9 of the Dignity Decree, imposing a fine of EUR 1 350 000.00. In particular, following numerous reports of alleged violations of the ban on online gambling advertising, AGCOM initiated and concluded a sanctioning procedure finding nine violations, one each for nine individual accounts, all marked with the blue tick. These violations related to content of an advertising...

Amendments to the federal statutes on “foreign agents”, on advertising and on the mass media were adopted by the State Duma on 28 February and signed into law on 11 March 2024. They introduce a complete ban on advertising in the “information resources” of legal and physical entities listed by the Russian authorities as “foreign agents” (see IRIS 2022-10:1/7). The ban includes advertising in the media outlets published by these “foreign agents”, their social media channels, blogs and individual web pages. The administrative fine for Russian businesses...