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The Broadcasting Authority has published a Consultation Document to amend the Broadcasting Code for the Protection of Minors. The Code, in its current format, has the defect of concentrating mainly on the protection of minors from the viewpoint of advertising, while barely dealing with other aspects of protection of minors in the broadcasting sector (see IRIS 2010-7/29). The current Code also doesn’t address the participation of minors in various programmes. As the remit of the Code is being extended, the Broadcasting Authority in its Consultation Document is proposing to alter the title of the...

The latest amendments to the Act on Public Procurement (Законот за јавни набавки), which are, at the end of the year 2014, in second reading before Parliament, allow the state and public institutions to advertise in the media without the possibility of a public bidding for the benefit of competitors in the media and advertising markets. The amendments to Article 2 of the Act on Public Procurement widens the existing exceptions of public procurement for the so-called “political advertising areas”, allowing the government, as well as other state and public institutions and agencies, to use public...

On 1 January 2015, the Act amending the Act on the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (public service broadcaster LRT) came into force. This amendment was adopted by the LR Seimas (the Lithuanian Parliament) on 23 December 2013. The amended act stipulates that advertising is prohibited on all the LRT programmes, except in cases when LRT is obliged to broadcast commercial communication as a part of a contractual obligation concerning the acquisition or marketing of rights for broadcasting international events. In addition, under the amendments to be soon enforced, LRT radio and television...

The UK co-regulatory bodies, the Committee of Advertising Practice and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice have introduced changes to their codes to regulate the marketing of e-cigarettes. The former covers general advertising, including non-broadcast electronic media, such as company websites and posts on social media directly connected with the supply of goods and services; the latter covers television services licensed by Ofcom. There were previously no specific restrictions on non-broadcast advertising of e-cigarettes. However, e-cigarettes could in practice not be advertised in...

On 16 October 2014, the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate Media and Communication Office - LMK) announced that it had lodged an appeal with the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court - aBVerfG) against the judgment of the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) of 23 July 2014 (case no. 6 C 31.13). The BVerwG had ruled (see IRIS 2014-9/14) that the depiction of a brand of beer at the “Hasseröder Männercamp” before and after the live broadcast of a football match on the Sat.1 television...