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On 24 May 2013 Ofcom ordered a review of the amount of alcohol advertising on television, after it emerged that children are increasingly watching reality programmes, such as: Britain’s Got Talent, X-Factor, and I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, which can show such advertisements under current rules. The existing guidelines ban adverts from being aired during shows that have a particular appeal to the under 18s. But research carried out for the broadcasting regulator reveals that children saw an average 3.2 alcohol adverts per week in 2011 - an increase of 18% on 2007 when they saw 2.7 per week. The...

On 11 April 2013, the Administrative Court in Sofia City annulled a decision of the Sofia District Court and thereby confirmed a fine imposed by the Bulgarian regulatory authority Council for Electronic Media (CEM). The CEM had imposed a sanction of BGN 15,000 (approximately EUR 7,500) on the media service provider "BTV Media Group". On 20 February 2012, the TV programme "The Slavi's Show" was broadcast as a repeat at lunch time between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. As regards this repeat, CEM found that there had been a violation of Article 17(2) of the Radio and Television Act (RTA) and No. 27 of CEM’s...

On 19 February 2013, the Supreme Court (“Court”) confirmed a fine imposed on a provider of audiovisual on-demand services (VoD) by the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission of the Slovak republic (“Council”). The fine of EUR 100 refers to the failure to label programmes and videos in the VoD catalogue with proper visual symbols indicating the appropriate age group of minors. The service in question is the online catch-up TV service for the Slovak major TV channel “joj”. The videos contained extracts from the reality show “Hotel Paradise”. These videos were however promoted by the VoD service...

On 22 May 2013, the European Parliament adopted the Resolution on the Implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The Resolution, which was written by Polish MEP Piotr Borys, stresses that the AVMSD is the backbone of EU media regulation: it guarantees a free flow of audiovisual media services and respects the right to freedom of expression and access to information, while protecting public interest objectives such as author’s rights and media freedom. At the same time, the report makes it clear that some Member States have not transposed the AVMSD in a timely manner or...

On 24 April 2013, the European Commission announced the adoption of a Green Paper on “Preparing for a Fully Converged Audiovisual World: Growth, Creation and Values”. The aim of the Green Paper is to foster public discussion on the implications of the on-going transformation of the audiovisual media landscape, which is characterised by a steady increase in the convergence of media services and the way in which these services are consumed and delivered. The Commission decided to initiate this discussion due to the fact that convergence will become gradually more tangible over the next decade and...