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On 21 January 2003, the Ministry of Culture and Communication sent the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audio-visual regulatory body - CSA) a draft implementing decree in respect of Article 20-2 of the amended Act of 30 September 1986, directed at organising the television broadcasting of events of "major importance". The TWF Directive was incorporated into the Audiovisual Communication Act on 1 August 2000, but the corresponding implementing decree has still not been adopted. Before coming to a decision, the CSA wished to consult the editors of television services likely to apply to acquire...

Implementing terrestrially-broadcast digital television requires a partial reorganisation of Hertzian frequencies. The CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audio-visual regulatory body) therefore decided, on 30 April 2002, to implement a first stage of seventeen rearrangements involving several television services authorised for terrestrially-broadcast analog television. This stage was to be carried out as an experiment in order to assess more particularly the cost of the operation that should in the end cover 1500 frequencies, so that 80% of the population will be able to receive terrestrially-broadcast...

On 18 March the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - audio-visual regulatory body) adopted a six-point recommendation on audio-visual media coverage of the war in Iraq. Calling on all the television and radio services to be particularly vigilant in exercising their editorial responsibility, the CSA reminded them of the need to check that the information they broadcast was correct and, in the event of uncertainty, to use the conditional tense in its presentation, quoting the source and the date. If they did broadcast information that proved to be incorrect, it was important to broadcast a correction...

The national film institutes of the 15 Member States of the European Union have made a common declaration on the importance of State aid for European films. This is the first time the film institutes have made a common statement. The national film institutes are publicly funded and were founded to support national and European film culture. In this common declaration the institutes express their concerns regarding the necessity for State aid for European films. The institutes are worried that the audio-visual sector in Europe will be left solely to the chances of free market forces. In the declaration,...

On 3 February Jean-Pierre Leclerc, member of the Conseil d'État and administrator of France Télévision, submitted to the Minister for Culture and Communication his report on the necessary development in the system of support for cinematographic production. His analysis of the current situation indicates that the problem of financing is still that of its distribution among the various categories of film rather than the overall amount, although this is threatened in coming years by uncertainties in the advertising market and the unfavourable development of Canal+. The report proposes defining more...