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On 19 October 2012 the Government submitted a proposal to implement the AVMS Directive into Norwegian law by amending kringkastingsloven (the Norwegian Broadcasting Act). The amendment was enacted by Parliament on 10 December 2012 with effect from 1 January 2013. This means that the scope of the Broadcasting Act has been extended to include audiovisual on-demand services, but is limited to on-demand services that are competing with traditional television broadcasts. One of the other main changes to the Act is that it inserts certain exceptions to the previous prohibition against product placement...

On 19 February 2013, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) published its latest reports on Ireland and Liechtenstein, adopted in the fourth monitoring cycle of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the member states of the Council of Europe (commentary on previous reports see IRIS 2003-5/3, IRIS 2005-7/2 and IRIS 2007-8/102). Only the report on Ireland contains a section focusing specifically on the media/Internet. In its fourth report, ECRI welcomes the positive developments in Ireland, including the establishment of the Office of the Press Ombudsman and...

The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has fined two video-on-demand services, Demand Adult and Playboy TV (both owned by Playboy) for failing to verify effectively the age of users accessing pornographic websites. On-demand services, unlike other websites, are regulated under the Communications Act 2003 by means of a co-regulatory regime. The Association for Television on Demand (ATVOD) has been designated as the appropriate regulator of editorial content in such services, whilst Ofcom itself has retained the power to impose sanctions (see IRIS 2012-9/26). The ATVOD rules, which implement the...

On 1 January 2013 the Amendment of Article 47 of the Act on Provision of Information to the Public came into force. It was adopted by the Seimas (Parliament) on 14 June 2012 and provides for the reformation of the Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija (Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania - LRTK). The new provisions change the principles of the formation of the LRTK, define the requirements for the members, the rules for their designation, and the conditions for expiry of the member’s powers before the designated term. They also determine the LRTK’s financing. The number of members has...

Following the public consultation launched with Deliberation no. 130/12/CONS (see IRIS 2012-6/23) which led in October 2012 to the approval of a draft sent for comments to the Ministry of Economic Development, on 29th November 2012 AGCOM (the Italian Communications Authority) approved Deliberation no. 587/12/CONS. With this deliberation, adopted pursuant to Article 45, para 4, of the Italian AVMS Code, AGCOM approved the guidelines for the contract of public service broadcasting, subscribed every three years by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana spa (Italian public service broadcaster) and the Ministry...