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More than four years after the adoption of legislation transposing the Television Without Frontiers Directive into the national Audiovisual Communication Act, and almost two years after the opinion issued by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory authority - CSA) on the draft text submitted to it by the Ministry for Culture and Communication (see IRIS 2003-4: 8), the decree laying down the conditions for assuring the exclusive television broadcasting of events of major importance so that a large section of the public is not deprived of the possibility of following them on a freely accessible...

In the light of the numerous international conflicts that television channels and radio stations cover every day, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (regulatory authority - CSA) adopted on 7 December 2004 a recommendation addressing the repercussions certain international trouble spots could have in France, and calling for particular vigilance in the exercise of editorial responsibility. In doing so, the CSA, as guarantor of the impartiality of information, recalled the need to check the accuracy of the information broadcast or, in the event of uncertainty, to present the information in the...

In a recommendation of 15 December 2004, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (official regulatory authority - CSA) strengthened the measures that apply to editors and distributors of television services broadcasting "Category V" programmes, in cinematographic works that may not be shown to anyone under the age of 18 years and pornographic or extremely violent programmes. This recommendation cancels and replaces previous recommendations on the subject (see IRIS 2003-4: 9 and IRIS 2003-10: 7). The CSA recalled the principles that are already established, according to which only "cinema" channels,...

Does the order in an urgent matter issued by the Conseil d'État on 13 December 2004 ordering Eutelsat to stop broadcasting the television channel Al Manar mark the end of the channel being broadcast in Europe? This is not the first time that the regulatory authority (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - CSA) has applied to the Conseil d'État, on the basis of the new Article 42-10 of the amended Act of 30 September 1986 introduced by the Act of 9 July 2004, on this subject, because of the Lebanese channel's broadcasting of programmes of an anti-Semitic nature (see IRIS 2004-9: 11). The television...

Whereas the European Commission is very keen to safeguard cultural diversity as part of the ongoing discussions at UNESCO, the Paris Administrative Court recently issued an important decision, cancelling the approval - and the related right to public aid - given by the Centre nationale de la cinématographie (national film centre - CNC) to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film " Un long dimanche de fiançailles ". Under the terms of the decree of 24 February 1999 on financial support of the film industry, feature-length films made by French companies or through international co-production are entitled to financial...