Search results : 67

The amended self-regulation document of advertisers passed the Slovenska oglasevalska zbornica (Slovenian Advertising Chamber - SOZ) on 19 March 2009. The Article titled “Children and Minors” has been transposed to the section “Special Rules” and some substantial changes have been made; the provision has been expanded in accordance with the new media and information and communication technology related risks, and the age limit was lowered. In the first two paragraphs of Article 18 of the Code it is claimed that it is foremost the responsibility of parents or guardians to protect children against...

At the beginning of March 2009 Tržni inšpektorat (the Slovenian Market Inspectorate) published a report on its activities in the year 2008. The report does not mention the problematic issue of advertisements for “porno chic” content on the internet, accessed via mobile phones and targeted at children, which could on their own or indirectly, by the promoted internet content, impair the physical and mental condition of children. But, in the report there is reference to a provision on misleading and indecent advertising of the Zakon o varstvu potrošnikov (Consumer Protection Act); concerning which...

The Parliament of the Republic of Slovenia passed into law the new Penal Code (Kazenski zakonik KZ-1) on 20 May 2008, which came into force on 1 November 2008. The new provision on pornography, child pornography, and sexual exploitation of children in commercial sex performances (Article no. 176) changes substantially the previous legislative concepts in this field. The most outstanding amendment of the provision refers to the juridical treatment of the possession of child pornography. Possession is now punishable without being conditional on the intention of the possessor to produce and/or disseminate...

The public service Radio and Television Slovenia (RTV) has established a Viewer and Listener Ombudsman in June 2007 and the person in charge was appointed to this position on 1 May 2008. At the end of November 2008 the Ombudswoman made the first public complaint related to the radio and television programming. She opposed the change of the broadcasting time of the children’s cartoons, which was stable for decades. On 17 November 2008 Television Slovenia started a new format -a telenovela titled ”Passions” which has been produced in-house. Like Mexican and Columbian telenovelas on the Slovenian...

The amended Slovenian Media Act and the non-binding Guidelines for the content of the internal ethical and esthetical rules (codex) of the broadcasters (see IRIS 2007-1: 18) distinguish between pornography and other explicit constructions of sexuality in TV programming. This conceptual distinction was applied in the codex of the Slovenian public broadcaster RTV Slovenija in 2007. The article no. 84 on the protection of minors of the Slovenia Media Act segments programming which includes sexuality into four categories: - pornography which might seriously impair the development, - pornography...