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Updated: July 17, 2012 (Initial publication: July 10, 2012)

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The Secretary of State for Culture and the Media in the UK written on June 18, 2012 to the Ofcom (British Office of Communication), in response to its report on pluralism.

The regulator of telecommunications and media in United Kingdom (Ofcom) published on, June 6, 2012 a report to measure media pluralism. In response, the State Secretary Jeremy Hunt writes on June 18 letter to the chairman of Ofcom, Colette Bow, for him make comments, astonishments, suggestions and remind him of the prerogatives of the Secretary of State in the matter. The set is made with the friendliness that fits between friends that are written and signed by their first names, formulas are in conditional tense in being enveloped in a respectful classicism, which is the form taken by the confrontation between the executive and the regulator. Tension is always high, whatever form it takes, when it comes to media.

Updated: July 16, 2012 (Initial publication: July 4, 2012)

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June 27, 2012, the European Commission extends its investigation for State aid, doubting that infrastructure subsidies paid by the Italy at an airport are justified

Airports are critical infrastructure. They often receive support from the State and the European Commission has adopted specific guidelines to soften the principle of prohibition of State aid in this area. Yet it is not necessary that the regulation be the mask of a violation of competitive equality. This is why the Commission has extended and prolonged on June 27, 2012, the investigation initiated in 2007 proposed to the airport of Alghero, Italy. Indeed, the investigation revealed including infrastructure subsidies, which the Commission doubt that they are comply with EU law.

Updated: July 12, 2012 (Initial publication: July 12, 2012)

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Regulation in practice. The de facto independence of regulatory agencies

Regulation in practice. The de facto independence of regulatory agencies

Updated: July 9, 2012 (Initial publication: June 30, 2012)

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Venezuelan regulator of audiovisual (Conatel) had sanctioned the Globovision channel to a very heavy fine. "Tribunal Suprêma del Justice - (TSJ)" decided the freeze of all assets of the company in case of misfeasance, this one paid the fine on June 29, 2012.

The regulator of telecommunications of the Venezuala also controls the television channels. In October 2011, it heavily punished by a fine Globovision channel for how it had reported mutiny. The company has not paid the fine. Seized by the regulator, the Supreme Court of justice ordered the freeze of assets of the company for $ 5.6 million as long as execution would not be made. The following day, June 29, 2012, the fine was paid. It is not sure that democracy has its account.

Updated: July 5, 2012 (Initial publication: June 26, 2012)

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The "Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes" - ARCEP (French telecommunications and postal regulator) required Internet operators to regularly provide information. AT & T and Verizon announced the June 21, 2012 that they challenged the decision of the regulator before the "Conseil d’Etat" (French Council of State).

The "Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes - ARCEP" (French telecommunications and postal regulator) required that all Internet operators, French or foreigners, from the moment that they operate on the French territory, to provide it, by return of questionnaire, a series of information, every 6 months, on their wholesale trafficking on the Internet, theirs tariff policies, their locations of interconnections, etc. AT & T and Verizon have said on June 21, 2012 that they challenged the decision before the "Conseil d’Etat" (French Council of State).

Updated: July 2, 2012 (Initial publication: June 22, 2012)

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By judgment of 21 June 2012, the US Supreme Court has validated the cancellation by the judge of sanctions pronounced by the Federal Communications Commission against chains of television for obscenities.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission had sanctioned for "indecency" two non-cabled television channels ABC and Fox, to have shown a woman entering back in the shower and let a singer say a rude word in a live broadcast. On appeal, the sanction was set aside by the federal judge. The regulator applies to the Supreme Court of the United States, which declared the case admissible and proceeds with the case, in a judgment of June 21, 2012. It dismisses the appeal of the regulator.It considers indeed that the regulator cannot punish channels in application of too-vague criteria of "indecency", as chains should know to what they expose themselves to the point where they act; otherwise punishment is contrary to the Constitution. This is a transposition of the legality of offences and penalties. The Court prefers to put the analysis on this field, repressive, and not the addressed by it, of the freedom of expression.

Updated: June 25, 2012 (Initial publication: June 16, 2012)

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The International Organization of Securities Commissions - IOSCO published a report on 12 June to regulate oil markets.

The real economy is entirely financiarized, it is the same for the oil economy. This is why the G20 has asked to the "Organisation internationale des commissions de valeurs" - OICV (International Organization of Securities Commissions) to reflect back on how oil markets could be regulated, what they are currently not, because the market remains an over-the-counter market. Financial regulators, in a report published on June 12, 2012, suggest that at least the information be controlled, fluctuations in the price of a barrel are reviewed and the functions of "the information agencies," should be inspected, but also the role of traders that communicate them information. Regulation, so shy it is, starts with information. On the matter of oil, transparency is not expected and geopolitics often excludes it.

Updated: June 18, 2012 (Initial publication: June 10, 2012)

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The European Commission launched the 1st June 2012 a consultation on the implementation of the European rules on State aid on public financing of broadband networks.

Guidelines are already emerging to what extents the financial supports provide by Member States to broadband networks are compatible with the principle of prohibition of State aid. The open public consultation launched the 1st June until September 3, is part of the more general approach of the Commission to change its guidelines for State aid and in the "digital strategy" of the European Union. It asked to those who respond to the consultation to have the concern to conceive aids to remedy market failures, to encourage investment and to introduce new players. By these signs, we measure it is a regulatory approach.

Updated: June 11, 2012 (Initial publication: May 23, 2012)

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The Department of Justice of the United States takes position for legislation intra-State concerning online gambling, other than sports betting. State laws are currently restrictive.

In the Unites States, the Federal Act, the Interstate Wire Act, is now performed by the Department of Justice as that only prohibiting sports betting and not poker online. In addition, States have to make arrangements if they want to liberalize the game of poker online. In February 2012, there is that many States have explicitly maintained the ban, only having liberalized and permits issued for Nevada.

Updated: June 10, 2012 (Initial publication: June 10, 2012)

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How Well Do Federal Regulations Actually Work? The Role of Retrospective Review

How Well Do Federal Regulations Actually Work? The Role of Retrospective Review
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