Luxembourg
Public Bodies
Ministère d'Etat (State Minster)
Ministre ayant dans ses attributions les Médias (i.e., the Prime Minister, also competent for the Media), who is the watchdog over TV programmes and certain radios and who presents his proposals to the Government for its approval
Services des Médias et de l'Audiovisuel (Media and Audiovisual Service)
It is the administrative staff of the Minister for the Media, which also assists the Independent Radio-diffusion Commission and the National Council for Programmes.
Conseil National des Programmes (National Council for Programmes)
It is the independent advisory body of the Government for the surveillance of TV/radio programmes and the identification of breaches of the relevant legislation.
Commission Indépendante de la Radiodiffusion (Independent Radio-diffusion Commission)
It is the independent authority entrusted with the tasks of control over radios in the country.
Commission Consultative des Médias (Consulting Commission on Media)
It advises the Government on media policies and represents it with the media-related associations and trade unions.
Self-regulation bodies
Commission Luxembourgeoise pour l'Ethique en Publicité (CLEP) (Luxembourg Commission for Advertising Ethics)
The Commission has been set up and funded by the advertising
industry to apply code and rules regulating advertising content. The
Commission receives complaints for investigation, and in case the
complaint is upheld, the advertiser will be requested to withdraw or
amend the advertisement.
Following a restructuring of the industry associations, a new
self-regulatory project is being put in place in 2005. The project aims
to reinforce and relaunch the self-regulatory system in terms of its
effective functioning, the establishment of a permanent secretariat,
and the raising of self-regulation's profile with industry and
consumers.
The Commission is a member of EASA (European Advertising Standards Alliance).
Law
Loi du 27 Juillet 1991 sur le médias électroniques,
modifié par L. 2 avril 2001, Mém. 2001, 924; L. 19
décembre 2003, Mém. 2003, 3990
Law on media as repeatedly amended
- Art. 6, Art. 15, Art. 28
Full Text (English version not available)
Loi du 8 juin 2004 sur la liberté d'expression dans les
medias
Law on Freedom of Expression in the Media
- Art. 18 Children's data protection
Full Text (English version not available)
Loi du 30 juillet 2002 réglementant certaines pratiques
commerciales et sanctionnant la concurrence déloyale
Law on certain commercial practices and unfair competition
Art. 16-17
Full Text (English version not available)
Loi du 24 Mars 1989
Law 24 March 1989 (tobacco advertising)
- Art. 1
Full
Text (English version not available)
No specific legislation on Internet and advertising to children exists at present.
Self-regulation
Code de Déontologie de la Publicité
Code of Advertising Practice
- Art.5, Art.6, Art.7
Full Text (English version not available)
The Commission (the national SRO) on Internet applies the:
ICC Principles on Marketing/Advertising on the Internet
-Art. 6
Updated: July 2005