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On 15 March 2006, the Director of Public Prosecutions (“the Director”) in Denmark decided there was no basis for instituting criminal proceedings against the newspaper Jyllands Posten for publishing the article “The Face of Muhammad”, which included 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad. In doing so, the Director upheld the decision made by the Regional Public Prosecutor on 6 January 2006. The article in Jyllands-Posten was published on 30 September 2005 and was advertised on the front page of the newspaper with a short introduction and one of the twelve drawings. The article was entitled "The Face...

On 6 June 2006, the Government reached an agreement on media policy with the political parties: Socialdemokratiet (the Social Democratic Party), Dansk Folkeparti (The Danish Popular Party), Det Radikale Venstre (The Social Liberal Party) and Socialistisk Folkeparti (The Socialist Popular Party). Radio and TV legislation shall be amended correspondingly during the 2006/2007 parliamentary session. The agreement shall be in force for the period from 6 June 2006 to 31 December 2010. The main features of the agreement are the following: - The Danmarks Radio (DR) channel must offer public service programmes...

The European Commission recently approved under EC Treaty state aid rules four aid schemes meant to support film making in Poland and Ireland, music recordings by new talent in France and newspaper distribution in Denmark. All four schemes were found to entail no undue distortion of competition within the Single Market. The Danish plans sought to give publishers of certain newspaper-like publications direct grants totalling EUR 1.3 million. The aid will enable publishers to freely choose their distributors in their efforts to distribute these publications. In deciding to favour this scheme, the...

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently made public five new reports as part of the third cycle of its monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2005-7: 3). Four of the country reports (Cyprus, Italy, Luxembourg and the Russian Federation) contain specific recommendations concerning the media. A recurrent, two-fold recommendation entails the ECRI encouraging the State authorities to: - “impress on the media, without encroaching on their editorial...

In August 2002, by a judgment of the Højesteret (Danish Supreme Court), the applicant company, Nordisk Film, was compelled to hand over limited specified unedited footage and notes of a broadcast television programme investigating paedophilia in Denmark. In order to make the programme, a journalist went undercover. He participated in meetings of “The Paedophile Association” and, with a hidden camera, interviewed two members of the association who made incriminating statements regarding the realities of paedophilia in both Denmark and India, including advice on how to induce a child to chat over...