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On 8 May 2007, the Council of Ministers adopted a regulation on the terms and conditions for the participation of the bodies responsible for the protection of the economic interests of the consumers in the administrative co-operation with the member states of the EU and the European Commission. Pursuant to the regulation, the administrative co-operation between the Bulgarian authorities responsible for the protection of economic interests of the consumers and the member states of the European Union and the European Commission shall be carried out between: 1. The Commission on Protection of Consumers...

At the conciliation meeting of 15 May 2007, the Council and European Parliament have agreed on the “Rome II” Regulation, which sets out rules for determining the applicable law in international civil cases in the area of torts, delicts and other non-contractual obligations. As was reported earlier, there was substantial disagreement between the European Commission, Council and Parliament on how to deal with cross-border defamation and other infringements of personality rights by the media (see IRIS Plus 2006-10). After the European Parliament had again asked for substantive amendments to the “Rome...

In the course of its 25th session, the Croatian Parliament discussed the proposed Draft Law Amending the Electronic Media Law. On 20 April 2007, the Parliament reached the decision to adopt the proposal, while any comments, proposals and opinions on the draft should be addressed to the Government, who had prepared the proposal for a final version. The draft regulates the following fundamental issues: - It stipulates that a natural person may also be an electronic media broadcaster; - It deletes the provision explicitly binding electronic publications to the activities of producing and transmitting...

On 19 December 2006, a new Joint Declaration was adopted by the four special mandates for protecting freedom of expression - the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the ACHPR Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. This year’s Joint Declaration focuses on four key issues: publishing confidential information; openness of national and international public bodies; freedom of expression and cultural/religious tensions; and impunity in cases of attacks on journalists....

In a judgment of 9 January 2007, the Bayerische Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Bavarian Administrative Court - VGH) decided that the Bayerische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst (Bavarian Ministry for Science, Research and Art) could not, as part of its official monitoring activities, instruct the Land media authority, the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian State Central Office for New Media - BLM) to prohibit the broadcasting of unlawful advertising on the channels for which it was responsible. The case concerned the dispute over the admissibility of advertising...