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On 27 February 2014, the Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA), the Albanian regulatory authority, issued a statement that demands that audiovisual operators should immediately stop broadcasting an advertising spot of the mobile phone company Vodafone for its offer regarding 3G Internet connection and network. According to the regulator, this advertising spot directly influences children and minors, targeting them and leading them to buy the mobile phone and the 3G connection that Vodafone is offering in Albania. The regulator claims that advertising with such content violates the principles laid down...

On 1 January 2014, the Decree of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic No. 468/2013 laid down the specific requirements for loudness of programme services. On 22 October 2013, the Slovak Parliament passed an Amendment (No. 373/2013 Coll. to Act. No 308/2000 Coll. on Broadcasting and Retransmission (see IRIS 2014-1/41). Among other things, the Amendment abolished the preceding system of measuring loudness of advertisement compared to the editorial content of the broadcasting. It authorised the Ministry of Culture to issue bylaws that will set the details for a new system compatible with...

After controversial debates over the new Закон за аудио и аудио-визуелни медиуми (Law on Audio and Audiovisual Services) in January 2014 (see IRIS 2013-7/19, IRIS 2013-8/28), the Macedonian Parliament adopted amendments to the audiovisual regulation, which excludes monitoring and regulation of web sites. This is expected to improve the situation of freedom of the media in the country. One of the main critical issues concerned the question, which professional journalists' association would nominate a member of the Board of the regulatory authority, after a second professional association had been...

In a ruling of 12 December 2013 (case no. I ZR 192/12), the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) decided that linking a competition to the sale of sweets in a television advertisement was admissible, provided the diligence requirement set out in Article 3(2)(3) of the Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (Unfair Competition Act - UWG) did not apply, since the advertisement was aimed not only at minors. The case concerned a TV commercial for a competition in which customers had to purchase the advertised sweets in order to take part. The advertisement showed the presenter Thomas Gottschalk...

Since 2010, Belgian French-language newspaper publishers have been in dispute with the Belgian public service broadcaster RTBF, which they accuse of developing its online activities, more specifically by publishing written content on its website in addition to the audiovisual content that forms part of its public broadcasting remit. The newspaper publishers claim that this written content creates unfair competition, especially as it benefits from public funding in the form of the annual subsidy granted to the RTBF by the French Community of Belgium. The publishers have brought three legal actions...