The EU has created directives which are guidelines that concern the actual technology and its capabilities. They are mostly concerning satellites and coverage but include very broad suggestions for media safety (promotion of healthy food, and hours for adult programming) with a very broad definition of “advertising.” This will serve as a shared European standard for media, and especially new media creation. The directives will not be law until the end of 2009 and do not infringe upon any existing national regulations which are stricter. The directives state that media are ultimately “subject only to the rules applicable in their own country (country of origin principle).” http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/reg/avms/index_en.htm
82 million
President: Horst Kohler (former president of the IMF)
Chancellor: Angela Merkel
Landesmedienanstalten
Media:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Die Zeit
Das Erste
Deutsche Welle
Arte
France
65 million
President: Nicolas Sarkozy
Prime Minster: Francois Fillon
Conseuil Superior Audiovisuel
Media:
The International Tribune
Le Monde
Agence France Press
Euronews
Arte
UK
61 million
Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth II
Prime Minister: Gordon Brown
Independent Television Commission
Media:
BBC / BBC World
The Financial Times
The Economist (Scottish Origin)
Foreign Press Association Headquarters
Italy
60 million
President: Giorgio Naplitano
Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi
Autorita per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni
Media:
Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) (former monopoly)
Republica
Rete Quattro
Italia Uno
La Sette
Spain
47 million
King: Juan Carlos I (constitutional monarchy)
Prime Minister: Jose Zapetero
Telecommunications Market Commission
Tele 5
Canal Sur
ABC (national newspaper)
Netherlands
17 million
Queen Beatrix
Prime Minster, Jan Peter Balkenede
Commissariaat voor de Media
Media:
Algemeen Dagblad – dialy paper
Telegraff
NOS – public TV
RTL – commercial TV
Belgium
11 million
King Albert II
Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy
Le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA)
Media:
De Standaard (The Standard)
Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF)
Greece
11 million
President: Karolos Papoulias
Kostas Karamanlis
Ethniko Symvulio Radioteleorasis
Media
Eleftherotypia
Athens News (English readership)
ERT – Public
Mega TV - Private
Sweden
9 million
King Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt
Broadcasting Commission (Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV)
Aftonbladet – daily news
SVT – Public TV
TV 3 – commercial satellite
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