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The Electronic Media Act (EMA), in Article 69, Paragraph 1, Subparagraphs 12 and 16, prescribes that the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) ensures the supervision over the implementation of provisions on the programming principles and obligations determined by the EMA and a special regulation, save for electronic publications. The CEM also considers the complaints of citizens on the media services providers’ behaviour with regard to the implementation of acts and takes measures in compliance with the EMA. Pursuant to the aforementioned provisions of the EMA, by maintaining continuous supervision...

On 3 October 2012, the UK’s Advertising Standard Authority (ASA) ruled against Channel Four Television for its posters advertising its documentary based on the film My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. The posters featured the words "Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier" over an image of a young boy looking directly at the camera and others of two teenagers wearing low-cut bra tops and three young girls dressed for their first Holy Communion standing in front of a caravan. The ASA, on advice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission reviewed the matter in light of the provisions of the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising,...

On 5 June 2012, the Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) introduced new standards for food advertising on its programming that targets children and families. Under the new advertising policy, “all food and beverage products advertised, sponsored, or promoted on the Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Radio Disney, and Disney-owned online destinations oriented to families with younger children will be required by 2015 to meet” the nutrition guidelines Disney established in 2006. The nutrition guidelines promote fruit and vegetable consumption and call for limiting calories and reducing saturated...

Over 80 participants from the NGO-sector, state institutions, national agencies and other local stakeholders have been participating in public meetings, organised by the Macedonian Broadcasting Council (BC), whose aim is to draft the new five-year National Strategy for Development of the Broadcasting Sector for the period 2013-2017. One of the main tasks of the new strategy is to identify the regulatory directions of the new Law on Audiovisual Services as well as to identify the shortcomings and gaps in the existing legislative acts that indirectly regulate the media sector, like protection of...

The face-off involving the two rival channels Edonys and Deovino, both of which focus on the culture, practices and art of wine, has finally reached a conclusion. In its decision of 11 July 2012, the Conseil d’Etat (France’s highest administrative jurisdiction), to which the matter had been referred by the company Media Place Partners (Edonys), pronounced the cancellation of the convention that the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) had agreed with Deovino. Edonys (“the international vine and wine channel”) had already referred the matter to the Conseil...