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The intensity of the sound of commercials has been a recurrent source of complaints from viewers to the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) for more than ten years (an average of three complaints each week), and the legislator and the regulatory authority have now taken the matter in hand. Article 177 of Act No. 2010-788 of 12 July 2010, Article 14 of Decree No. 92-280 of 27 March 1992 (as amended), and Article 27 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended) require channels to observe an even volume of sound for both television programmes and commercial breaks,...

In response to the concern expressed frequently by a large number of viewers, the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) called on its Committee for considering programme evolution to carry out a considered analysis of reality TV programmes. This was done between February and July 2011, and has resulted in a list of the CSA’s actions in respect of these broadcasts, concluding with the compilation of a number of recommendations, which were made public on 4 October 2011. The CSA stresses the need to reinforce protection for the two categories of people most at risk,...

In accordance with Article 13 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) notified the President of the Senate and the National Assembly and the leaders of the political groups represented in Parliament at the end of September 2011 of the speaking times for politicians timed during television news, news programmes and other programmes on the major national television channels, news channels and the main news radio stations during the second quarter of 2011. Since July 2009, a new “principle of pluralism”, decreed by the CSA, governs...

In a notable response to the reasoned opinion issued on 29 September by the European Commission holding that the arrangements provided for by the 1986 Act granting additional “compensatory” channels to the three historic groups TF1, M6 and Canal+ were contrary to European Union law (see IRIS 2011-9/7), Prime Minister François Fillon announced a number of measures on 11 October. Firstly, a bill is to be tabled within a period of two months with a view to repealing the arrangement for “compensatory” channels. Secondly, in order to enable viewers to benefit from a wider audiovisual offer without having...

On 19 October 2011 the Conseil d’Etat rejected the applications brought by the Apple companies and the Internet access provider FDN against the decrees on the organisation and functioning of the high authority for broadcasting works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet - HADOPI). In doing so, the Conseil d’Etat validated the “graduated response” procedure, which it deems to be in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights. This procedure, set up by the Acts of 12 June 2009 and 28 October...