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The Macedonian media regulation authority, the Broadcasting Council, adopted a Прирачник за оценување на медиумскиот плурализам (Guideline for assessing media pluralism), whose aim is to provide the Council with the tools required to adjust its decision-making process in order to foster media pluralism in the country. This document comes in response to the remark in the EU Commission’s Progress Report for 2012 where the Commission expressed “[...] widespread concerns about lack of pluralism and self-censorship [...]”. Moreover, the EU Commission points out that the intense governmental advertising...

On 6 February 2013, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (Spain's antitrust authority - CNC) ruled that its Resolution of 28 October 2010 concerning the merger of TV broadcasters Telecinco and Cuatro had been breached and that Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A. (owner of Telecinco) had therefore committed a very serious infringement under Article 62.4.c) of the Spanish Competition Act 15/2007 of 3 July 2007. Accordingly, it fined Mediaset EUR 15,600,000 pursuant to Article 63.1.c) of that Act. On 28 October 2010, the CNC had approved the merger between TV channels Telecinco and Cuatro subject...

On 18 January 2013, after having consulted with the Bulgarian Drug Agency (BDA), the media authority Съвет за електронни медии (Council for Electronic Media - СЕМ) published a position on the sponsorship of media services by manufacturers or sellers of medicinal products. The CEM asked the BDA for an interpretation of a relevant provision of the Medicinal Products in Human Medicine Act (MPHMA). According to Article 244 para. (1) MPHMA, an advertisement of medicinal products is any form of information, presentation, promotion or offer with the aim of encouraging the prescription, sale or use of...

During the programme Café Corsari on één, a channel of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, Seppe Smits, a snowboarder, was interviewed about the Snowboard World Cup in Antwerp. Seppe Smits was wearing a cap with the logo of his sponsor, Red Bull, and a t-shirt bearing the brand of another sponsor, Burton. During the interview with Seppe Smits and during two interviews with other guests, the Red Bull logo and the Burton brand were displayed several times. According to Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Media Regulator - VRM), this practice infringes Article 100, § 1, 3° Mediadecreet (Flemish...

On 20 December 2012, the Broadcasting Authority issued to all broadcasting stations its directive on programmes and advertisements to be broadcast during the period 7 January to 9 March 2013. This is because Parliament was dissolved on 7 January 2013 and general elections were held on 9 March 2013. In fact, on that date even local council elections were held. The directive has been tightened up from past directives. For instance, now it included reference not only to news bulletins but even to updates and special editions which were broadcast during the elections campaign period. Not later than...