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On 26 April 2007, the Bundestag Sub-Committee on New Media held an expert hearing on “The protection of minors in the media and violent computer games”. In his introduction, the Director of the Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen e.V. (Lower Saxony Criminal Research Institute - KFN) showed a number of violent scenes from computer games and described the aims of these games, all of which were to move up to a higher level in the game hierarchy. He then presented the results of studies that allegedly prove that extremely violent computer games make young people more aggressive. According...

At the end of March, the Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (Commission on Concentration in the Media - KEK) published its third report on concentration under the title “Crossmediale Verflechtungen als Herausforderung für die Konzentrationskontrolle” (“Cross-media links: a challenge to the monitoring of media concentration”). In addition to the development of horizontal concentration in the field of television, the report describes the vertical and diagonal links between operators and other media markets and points to possible changes to be expected in the field of broadcasting,...

On 23 April 2007, the Assembly of the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (the State Media and Communications Agency - LMK) in Rhineland-Palatinate rejected the appeal of the broadcaster Sat.1 against the objection raised in respect of a violation of the ban on surreptitious advertising. In September 2006, the LMK ruled that Sat.1 had violated the ban on surreptitious advertising with its Easter programme “Jetzt geht’s um die Eier! Die große Promi-Oster-Show”, which was broadcast on 8 April 2006. During the programme, at the centre of which was a cookery competition, advertising banners...

At the end of April 2007, the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency - BNetzA), the authority responsible for regulating Germany’s communications networks, issued five regulatory orders for broadcasting transmission services. They lay down the regulatory obligations to be imposed on four cable network operators - Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH & Co. KG, Kabel Baden-Württemberg GmbH & Co. KG, ish NRW GmbH and iesy Hessen GmbH & Co. KG (the latter two now operate under the Unity Media brand) - and T-Systems Business Services GmbH, as an operator of analogue terrestrial transmitters,...

With its decision of 24 April 2007, the European Commission provisionally discontinued the proceedings to examine the compatibility of the description of the remit and funding of public broadcasting in Germany with the terms of Articles 87 ff. and 86 of the EC Treaty (see IRIS 2007-2: 5, IRIS 2006-6: 10, IRIS 2005-4: 4 and IRIS 1997-9: 13). It informed the German authorities, in a letter of the same date, setting out the procedure, the essential arguments concerning the matter examined and its assessment in terms of the law relating to subsidies, as well as the measures considered expedient, and...