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On 11 September 2014, the National Audiovisual Council - CNA (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului) adopted Decision No. 528 (Decizia nr. 528/2014 privind regulile de desfăşurare în audiovizual a campaniei electorale pentru alegerea Preşedintelui României) with regard to the rules of the audiovisual electoral campaign for the election of the President of Romania (see IRIS 2009-10/24 and IRIS 2011-3/29). The presidential elections are convened on 2 November (first round) and 16 November 2014 (second round). The electoral campaign lasts 30 days, from 3 October 00.00, until 1 November 07.00 (24 hours...

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive contains a number of provisions concerning the scheduling and amount of advertising permitted on broadcast television (Arts. 19-26 AVMSD). In the UK, these requirements are enforced through the Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising (COSTA) (see IRIS 2008-9/18). In a recent Broadcast Bulletin, Ofcom published a ‘Note to Broadcasters’ providing guidance to broadcasters on the application of COSTA rules to split-screen advertising. This type of advertising is defined as: ‘Split-screen advertising involves transmitting editorial content and advertising...

According to media reports, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH), in a ruling of 18 September 2014, which has not yet been published in full (case no. I ZR 34/12), decided that an advertisement for video game accessories, written in language likely to appeal to children, represented an unlawful exhortation to children to purchase and therefore infringed Article 3(3) of the Act against unfair competition (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb - UWG). This ruling is also relevant to the audiovisual media sector, firstly because video games and their advertisement represent audiovisual...

On 24 April 2013, the Agency for Protection of Competition (AVK) issued a decision, which found that the local company Pro Plus has abused its dominant position in the television advertising market on the territory of the Republic of Slovenia (and in the internal market). Since 1 January 2003, Pro Plus, which owns two commercial TV channels (Pop TV and Kanal A), required exclusivity from the advertisers (100% market share of advertising) or offered more favourable conditions for the loyalty of the advertisers discouraging them to advertise on other competitive TV channels, which restricted the...

On 2 August 2014, three new media acts, namely the Act on Public Information and Media, the Act on Electronic Media, and the Act on Public Service Media were adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and published in the Official Gazette No. 83/2014. The adoption of these acts was one of the main goals set in the Media Strategy, which the Government adopted in September 2011 and follows the stakeholder consultations and public debates that were held in 2013. Superseding a more than a decade old legislation, the new acts are introducing significant changes to the legal framework,...