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On 22 September 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) published its judgment in the joined cases C-244/10 and C-245/10 following references for a preliminary ruling from the German Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) concerning the interpretation of the ban on the broadcast of programmes that incite hatred, enshrined in Article 22a of the Television Without Frontiers Directive 89/552/EEC (now: Article 6 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU). The related national procedure concerned an order issued by the Bundesministerium des Innern...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly which is currently comprised of delegations from the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine enacted on 16 May 2011 a Model Statute on the Basics of Internet Regulation (Модельный закон «Об основах регулирования Интернета»). It consists of 3 chapters with a total of 13 articles. The Act sets out principles and determines major directions of regulation of relations that have to do with the use of Internet, sets procedures for state support of its...

On 5 May 2011, Advocate General (AG) Bot gave his opinion to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in the joined cases C-244/10 and C-245/10. It concerned a reference for a preliminary ruling submitted by the German Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) on the interpretation of the ban on the broadcast of programmes that incite to hatred, enshrined in Article 22a of the “Television Without Frontiers” Directive 89/552/EEC (TWF, now: Article 6 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU, AVMSD). The related national procedure concerned an order issued...

On 7 March 2011 the Hungarian Parliament adopted some amendments of great significance to the new media acts (Act CIV of 2010 on the Freedom of the Press and the Fundamental Rules on media content as well as Act CLXXXV of 2010 on Media Services and Mass Media). The amendments were put forward by the government following an agreement between the European Commission and the Hungarian Government reached on 16 February 2011 (see IRIS 2011-3/24). According to the amendments the obligation to provide balanced coverage applies henceforth only to linear media services (i.e., television and radio broadcasting)...

The Turkish Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and their Broadcasts (Law No. 3984 of 20 April 1994; see IRIS 2008-8/34) has been repealed by a new law that was adopted by the Turkish Parliament on 15 February 2011 and entered into force on 3 March 2011. The new law was prepared with the intention of solving current problems the Turkish media sector has been facing. It contains completely new provisions alongside articles that repeat related provisions of the repealed law. The most important changes may be summarised under the following four titles: 1. The Turkish Media...