Source: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/505122013005/consolide
Timestamp: 2019-10-19 15:06:14
Document Index: 207874868

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 17', '§ 30', '§ 31', '§ 32', '§ 17', '§ 30', '§ 14', '§ 22', '§ 29', '§ 14', '§ 31', '§ 32', '§ 33']

§ 17 Advertising of tobacco products
§ 30 Persons exercising supervision
§ 31 Rights and obligations of officials exercising supervision
§ 32 Precepts of supervisory officials
(1) It is prohibited in commercial communications transmitted by providers of audiovisual media services to:
1) use subliminal techniques;
2) use the voice or image of a person who appears as an anchor or commentator in programmes on political events or issues or as an announcer in a news programme.
(2) In addition to the provisions of this Act, the requirements provided for in the Media Services Act apply to advertising, teleshopping and other commercial communications.
§ 17. Advertising of tobacco products
(3) A trade mark used to designate a tobacco product which expresses a tobacco product or the consumption thereof in words or depicts it in picture shall not be used in the cases specified in clauses 2 (2) 2) – 4) and 6) of this Act.
1) information on the name, working hours, place of business and speciality of a health care provider, the name, speciality, academic degrees and contact details of a health care professional and the list of health services provided;
(1) Advertising of plant protection products shall comply with the requirements provided for in Article 66 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1–50).
(1) For the purposes of this Act, financial services mean the services provided to customers by the subjects of financial supervision specified in the Financial Supervision Authority Act and the financial services within the meaning of the Credit Institutions Act.
(31) A credit broker shall, in addition to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, disclose also the extent of its powers in accordance with clause 4171 (1) 1) of the Law of Obligations Act.
§ 30. Persons exercising supervision
(1) The Consumer Protection Board shall exercise supervision over compliance with this Act and the requirements established on the basis thereof, except the requirements provided for in §§ 14 and 15 of this Act.
(2) In addition to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, supervision shall be exercised by the officials of the following administrative authorities according to their competence:
2) the Health Board over compliance with the requirements provided for in Chapter 2 of this Act with regard to advertising of medical devices and over violation of the requirements provided for in Chapter 2 and § 22 of this Act with regard to advertising of health services;
4) the Financial Supervision Authority over compliance with the requirements provided for in Chapter 2 and § 29 of this Act with regard to advertising of financial services provided to customers by the subjects of financial supervision specified in the Financial Supervision Authority Act;
5) the rural municipality or city government within its administrative territory with regard to outdoor advertising.
(3) The persons provided for in the Bar Association Act and the Sworn Translators Act shall exercise supervision over compliance with the requirements specified in § 14 of this Act pursuant to the procedure provided by law.
§ 31. Rights and obligations of officials exercising supervision
(1) An official exercising supervision (hereinafter supervisory official) has the right, for performance of their duties, to:
1) inspect, without hindrance, compliance of advertising with the requirements provided by law;
2) have free access, for the purposes of inspecting, to the territory or building used in the business or professional activities of the person placing, producing or publicising advertising in the presence of the person subject to supervision, the representative or employee thereof;
3) receive information necessary for the exercise of supervision from state agencies, rural municipality or city governments and the persons placing, producing or publicising advertising;
4) demand that the person placing, producing or publicising advertising submit documents, materials, including copies of advertising, explanations and other relevant information and to obtain copies of documents;
5) issue oral warnings to the person placing, producing or publicising advertising and to draw the attention thereof to any failure to comply with the requirements provided for in this Act;
6) issue precepts within the limits of their competence.
(2) In the cases provided for in the Substitutive Enforcement and Penalty Payment Act, a supervisory official may impose substitutive enforcement pursuant to the procedure provided for in the Substitutive Enforcement and Penalty Payment Act.
(3) In the performance of their duties, supervisory officials are required to present identification.
(4) Supervisory officials are required to ensure the confidentiality of business and technical information which becomes known to them upon exercise of supervision, unless the disclosure of such information is prescribed by law.
§ 32. Precepts of supervisory officials
(1) In the case of violation of the Advertising Act, the agency exercising supervision over advertising or an official authorised thereby may issue a precept to the person placing, producing or publicising advertising in which they:
1) draw attention to the offence and demand that it be terminated;
2) require the performance of acts which are necessary for lawful continuation of advertising activities.
1) the name and position of the official who prepared the precept and the name and address of the agency on whose behalf the precept is prepared;
4) the factual and legal bases for the precept;
5) a clearly expressed requirement together with references to the provisions of relevant legislation;
7) the amount of penalty payment to be imposed upon failure to comply with the precept;
8) the procedure for appeal against the precept.
(3) A precept may contain a warning to apply substitutive enforcement and the estimated amount of the costs thereof upon failure to comply with the precept.
(4) A precept shall be delivered to the person immediately against signature or sent to the person by registered mail with advice of delivery.
(5) Compliance with precepts is mandatory. Appeal against a precept does not release from the obligation to comply with the precept unless a court decides otherwise.
(6) Upon failure to comply with a precept specified in subsection (1) of this section on time, a penalty payment may be imposed pursuant to the procedure provided for in the Substitutive Enforcement and Penalty Payment Act. The upper limit for a penalty payment is 3200 euros.
(1) The provisions of the General Part of the Penal Code and the Code of Misdemeanour Procedure apply in the case of misdemeanours provided for in §§ 33–35 of this Act.