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On 17 June 2008, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (national audiovisual regulatory authority – CSA) published a deliberation on the exposure of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs on the airwaves. Faced with the increased presence of tobacco, drugs and alcohol on television and radio, the CSA, as part of its mission to preserve public health and with the support of the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte contre la Drogue et la Toxicomanie (inter-ministerial mission to combat drugs and drug addiction – MILDT), has laid down the conditions for representing these substances...

The Broadcasting Council of the Czech Republic has frequently had to deal with the principles of youth protection on television, particularly in relation to "Big Brother"-type formats and has imposed fines on many occasions. The programmes concerned are accused of infringing the provisions of the Youth Protection Act. The Broadcasting Council’s main criticisms of the new formats concern the systematic flouting of social standards and the deliberate attempts to encourage participants to break taboos. As far as common social values are concerned, these programmes are considered particularly problematic...

On 16 July 2008, the European Commission adopted an anti-trust decision intended to prohibit copyright-handling practices that create artificial barriers to the provision of music across European borders. These involve clauses in reciprocal representation agreements between collecting societies (all of which operate under the umbrella of CISAC – the International Association of Collecting Societies of Authors and Composers) that have been deemed to infringe the European rules on restrictive business practices (Article 81, EC Treaty and Article 53, EEA Agreement; see also the European Court of Justice’s...

On the 30 May 2008, the 12º Vara Cível de Lisboa , a Portuguese Court, prohibited the exhibition of the programme “44.ª Corrida TV” (44^th TV bullfighting), scheduled by the Public Service Broadcaster, Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP), for Sunday afternoon (8 June) at 17h00. The Court decided that bullfighting could not be broadcast before 22h30 and without an identifying symbol advising viewers of the violent nature of the programme's content. In a country with a long tradition of bullfighting, this landmark decision was taken following a complaint of the animal rights association Animal,...

On 26 April 2008 new amendments to the Law on Alcohol Control came into force. The amended Law abolishes the unconditional prohibition to advertise alcoholic beverages in TV programmes. According to the former amendments of the Law on Alcohol Control (see IRIS 2007-8:15), which came into force on 1 January 2008, alcohol advertising was prohibited from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. in broadcast programmes of broadcasters under Lithuania’s jurisdiction. When the prohibition to broadcast alcohol advertising came into force, the broadcasters of Lithuania suspended the live broadcast of all sports and began to...