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The Amendments To The Advertising Law

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Reklāmas likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on the amendments to the advertising done Advertising in the law of the Republic of Latvia (Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2000, no. 3; 2004, nr. 10; 2007; 2008 21 no, 3, nr. 24; Latvian journal, 2011, 50 no) the following amendments: 1. To make article 14, the first paragraph by the following: "(1) the supervision authority shall exercise supervision of advertising according to the requirements of the supervisory authority's priorities, as well as assessing the potential impact of the infringement: 1) on its own initiative, including on the basis of the person's application; 2) on the basis of such information, the authorities charged with the monitoring and control; 3) on the basis of an application submitted by a Member State of the European Union body which is included in the official journal of the European Union published a list of the authorities of the Member States, which are entitled to give a ruling in connection with the application to the competent authority of the EU consumer rights violation. " 2. Make the informative reference to European Union directives as follows: "Informative reference to European Union directives, the law includes provisions resulting from: 1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 of Directive 2005/29/EC concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC and European Parliament and Council Directive 97/7/EC , 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (' unfair commercial practices directive "); 2) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006, Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising; 3) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009. directive 2009/22/EC on injunctions for the protection of consumers ' interests. " The law shall enter into force on the day following its promulgation. The Parliament adopted the law in 2012 on October 18. The President of the Parliament instead of the President s. Āboltiņ in Riga 2012 October 25