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According to Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) guarantees the protection of children and young people and ensures that programmes likely to be damaging to the physical, mental or moral development of minors are not made available to the public by a sound broadcasting service unless it is assured, because of the broadcasting time chosen, that minors would not normally be likely to hear them. Under this Article, the CSA adopted a deliberation on 10 February prohibiting any sound broadcasting service...

Under Article 1 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) is authorised to make recommendations to the editors and distributors of audiovisual communications services regarding compliance with the principles set out in the Act. On the basis of this, having observed that a number of television channels were increasingly promoting the calling of surcharged telephone services or telematic services that could not be classified as advertising, particularly in order to take part in games, to vote or to contribute to a programme,...

On 12 February the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) decided to serve formal notice on the national public-service television channel France 2 ordering it to abide by its obligation to inform viewers properly and broadcast honest news, in accordance with Article 43-11 of the amended Act of 30 September 1986 and Article 2 of its terms of reference, appended to Decree no. 94813 of 16 September 1994. On 3 February, as Alain Juppé, leader of the Union de la Majorité Présidentielle political party, was preparing to reveal live on the 8 o'clock news on the national...

The National Assembly adopted the bill on electronic communications and audiovisual services, transposing the "telecoms package" (see IRIS 2003-5: 15 and IRIS 2003-6: 9) at its first reading on the evening of Thursday, 12 February 2004. Apart from slight changes concerning networks and telecoms services, the text more importantly contains new legislative provisions concerning the audiovisual sector in line with recent economic and technological developments, thereby effecting a thorough reform. The bill contains a series of amendments authorising the financing of local television stations by local...

On 4 February, the Conseil d'Etat banned the showing of the film Ken Park to anyone under the age of 18. The film, made by the American Larry Clark, came out in France in October last year. On 6 October the French Minister for Culture had issued an exploitation licence that prohibited the film being shown to anyone under the age of 16; this licence has therefore been "partly" cancelled. Under Article 19 of the Cinematographic Industry Code, the screening of films in French cinemas is subject to the grant of an exploitation licence issued by the Minister, after counsutation with the Film Classification...