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Among the “Sundry Provisions” contained in Act No. 2012-158 of 1 February 2012 aimed at strengthening the sport ethic and the rights of sportsmen and -women, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA), has been entrusted with laying down the way in which the “brief extracts” of sports competitions mentioned in Article L. 331-5 of the Sport Code may be broadcast, following consulting France’s National Olympic and Sports Committee and the organisers of the sports events referred to in Article L. 331-5. Since 1984, in the name of the public’s right to information,...

On 13 January 2012 the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) announced that it had instructed the digital TV channel Direct Star to stop broadcasting a disputed advertisement, on the basis of Article 14 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) and the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 52-1 of the Electoral Code prohibiting political advertising. The CSA had noted that a message in favour of the Parti Contre le Cancer had been broadcast on the channel over a period of about ten days last October. The spot featured a famous professor of medicine...

On 26 January the regional court in Lille delivered its judgment in the high-profile case of the documentary entitled Le Mur, which denounces the treatment of autism by psychoanalysis. Three psychoanalysts had given their authorisation for their images and voices to be used after they were filmed and interviewed for the production of a three-part documentary film. They complained that their interviews had been edited and used in a distorted form in order to make a biased 52-minute film that was eventually called Le Mur and subtitled La psychanalyse à l’épreuve de l’autisme and made available on...

On 7 December 2011, the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) delivered a high-profile decision on the powers of the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) in the settlement of differences. Since 2004, the CSA has had a quasi-jurisdictional power as, under Article 17-1 of the Act of 30 September 1986, it may be referred to by an editor, a distributor of services, or an operator or supplier of access to digital radio or television services, with a view to settling any differences involving the distribution of a radio or television service. In the case at issue, in...

On 20 December 2011, the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) adopted a deliberation on the protection of young audiences, deontology, and the accessibility of programmes on on-demand audiovisual media services (AMSs), replacing the deliberation of 14 December 2010 (see IRIS 2011-2/27). Under Article 1 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the CSA is required to protect young audiences from programmes that might be damaging to their physical, mental or moral development. More particularly, Article 15 of the Act requires it to ensure the implementation of any means...