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On 24 March 2006, the Swiss Parliament adopted a new Radio and Television Act, which will ensure that the Schweizerische Rundspruchgesellschaft (SRG) continues to provide a strong public broadcasting service in the future. The Act also relaxed certain restrictions on private broadcasters and strengthened support for local and regional private broadcasters from licence fee revenue (fee sharing). The dual model originally proposed in the draft Radio and Television Act (with SRG on the one hand as a public service broadcaster funded through the licence fee, and private broadcasters in free competition...

On 22 February 2006 the State Duma (parliament) of the Russian Federation adopted the Federal Statute “On Advertising”. It replaces the statute of the same name of 1995 (see IRIS 1995-9: 9). The new statute has six chapters and 40 articles. Under advertising the statute understands the distribution of information in any form with the help of any media, which is intended for an indeterminate group of persons and is directed at forming or supporting interest in the objects of advertising and facilitating market advancement of such objects. As before the statute does not regulate political advertising....

At the beginning of March 2005, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (the Romanian regulatory body for electronic media - CNA ) adopted a new, partly amended code ( Codul de reglementare al Consiliului Naţional al Audiovizualului ) summarising all the important legal provisions on audiovisual content. The code was drawn up following consultations with broadcasters' representatives and the public. With a view to Romania's accession to the EU, it is designed to bring the country's legislation into line with existing EU regulations. The 160 articles of the code are divided into chapters regulating...

A new Law on Broadcasting Activity entered into force in the Republic of Macedonia on 29 November 2005. One of its purposes is to bring domestic law into line with the EU Television Without Frontiers Directive. The Law is divided into 17 chapters and comprehensively regulates many different aspects of broadcasting. It begins by defining certain terms and dividing broadcasters into public, commercial and non-profit broadcasting companies. The highly detailed Chapter III is devoted to the protection of pluralism, diversity and transparency of the work of broadcasters. In order to control illegal...

On 31 January 2006, the audiovisual Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory body - CSA) fined Skyrock radio EUR 50,000 for broadcasting comments likely to cause offence to listeners under the age of 16. Under Article 15 of the Act, as amended, of 30 September 1986, the CSA has a duty to “ensure the protection of children and young people”, and it was on this basis that the CSA sent a recommendation to radio stations on 10 February 2004 prohibiting them from broadcasting programmes likely to cause offence to listeners under the age of 16 between 6 am and 10.30 pm. Skyrock broadcasts a phone-in...