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Drawing conclusions from the first year of the application of the Act of 12 May 2010 organising an opening up of competition for online gambling, and taking documented practice into consideration, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) has issued a new recommendation on the conditions for radio and television stations broadcast of advertising for operators of gambling and games of chance. Article 7 of the Act of 12 May 2010 leaves the CSA the job of determining the conditions for broadcasting advertising, sponsoring, and product placement in favour of operators...

The Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) sent a “serious warning” to the channel Canal+ Sport further to the repeat showing on 8 November 2010, between 12 noon and 6 p.m., of the broadcast of a tennis match during which the name of a brand of beer appeared 195 times for an aggregate time of 24 minutes, 34 seconds, contrary to the ban on all advertising or promotion of alcoholic beverages provided for in Article L. 3323-2 of the Public Health Code and Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992. The CSA also found fault with the channel that the bank partnering the...

On 27 April 2011 the court of appeal in Paris rejected the appeal brought by the M6 group against the company operating the TV-replay.fr site, an online guide to catch-up TV sites that offers summaries and links to the programmes of most of the major French channels that are available as catch-up TV. In doing so, the court upheld the judgment delivered in the initial proceedings (see IRIS 2010-8/29). The television group, which operates the channels M6 and W9 together with their catch-up TV services M6replay and W9replay, complained more particularly that TV-replay.fr was providing direct access...

As part of its duty to protect children and young people, conferred on it by Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) ensures not only the protection of young viewers but also the protection of minors taking part in television programmes. On 17 April 2007 it therefore adopted a deliberation on the participation of persons under the age of 18 in television programmes other than works of fiction (see IRIS 2007-6/17). This text reaffirms the need for young people to be able to express their opinions, and requires editors...

France Télévisions has asked the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to look into the regulations on product placement in audiovisual fiction programmes, and more particularly the inclusion of advertising posters (virtual or real) on the sets for series and TV films. Since the decision adopted by the CSA on 16 February 2010 in application of Article 14-1 of the Act of 5 March 2009 transposing the AVMS Directive (see IRIS 2010-4/23) into national legislation, product placement has been authorised in France “in cinematographic works, audiovisual fiction works and...