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The Swiss Government has concluded another agreement on cinematographic cooperation with Germany and Austria. The aim is to facilitate international co-productions and promote the circulation and exploitation of films from any of the contracting States, and it came into force on 23 June 2011. It is the first trilateral agreement Switzerland has concluded in the field of cinematographic cooperation, and it replaces the bilateral agreements concluded with Germany in 1984 and with Austria in 1990. The new agreement on cinematographic cooperation applies to films intended mainly to be shown in cinema...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

In a recently published report, the Wissenschaftliche Dienst (research office) of the German Bundestag (lower house of parliament) concluded that the EU’s Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC was incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (see IRIS 2010-4/12). The report stated that there was “definitely no way of interpreting this Directive […] in a way that is compatible with the Charter.” The Wissenschaftliche Dienst began by recognising the legitimacy of the purpose, suitability and necessity of the Directive. The objectives of protecting public order, preventing...

At the end of April 2011, the Hessische Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr und Landesentwicklung (Hessian ministry for the economy, traffic and regional development) presented a new cinema digitisation support programme. The programme is one of the measures being financed by the Hessen region from funds granted by the European Regional Development Fund for the 2007-2013 period. The aim is to help Hessian cinemas switch from analogue to digital projection technology with reference to the European Commission Communication of 24 September 2010 on the digitisation of European cinemas (see IRIS 2010-10/8). Funding...

The Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz der Landesmedienanstalten (Land Media Authorities’ Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media - KJM) published criteria for the recognition of youth protection programs on the World Wide Web on 11 May 2011. The KJM’s discussions were based on the notion that providers of content that is potentially dangerous to young people or their development can fulfil their protection obligations under the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Young People in the Media - JMStV) by setting up recognised youth protection programs for their content....