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The CSA has had to call the television channels to order following a wave of successive rescheduling by M6, France 2 and TF1 in the past few days. The movement was started by M6 and France 2, both of which had decided to broadcast at 8.55 pm on 1 February their new programmes intended to test viewers' knowledge of the highway code - "Permis de conduire: le grand test" and "Code de la route: le grand examen". M6 decided on 15 January to bring forward the broadcasting of its programme to Friday, 31 January. Keen to be first in line, France 2 then immediately scheduled its programme for 28 January...

The Conseil de la concurrence (Fair Competition Board) issued a decision on 23 January 2003 that temporarily suspends the allocation to Canal+ of the rights to broadcast matches in the premier league football championship for the season 2004-2007 on television. The decision follows on from the complaint of abuse of a dominant position brought by its satellite competitor TPS against the French professional football league (Ligue de football professionnelle - LFP) and the company Canal+ after the league had granted exclusive rights to Canal+ on 14 December last year for the record sum of EUR 480...

UGC's initiative taken in March 2000 without any prior reference to the public authorities to launch an "unlimited" season ticket resulted - in addition to the company being fined FRF 1.5 million for breach of the cinematographic industry code (see IRIS 2000-8: 9) - in the adoption of measures to set limits on commercial schemes of this type. Since the acts of 15 May and 17 July 2001, setting up a scheme for cinema access giving entitlement to more than one entry ("unlimited cinema season tickets") is subject to the prior authorisation of the director of the Centre national de la cinématographie...

Last summer, when he was being questioned the day after the murder of a teenager that was supposedly inspired by an American horror film, the Minister for Culture and Communication, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, entrusted the philosopher Blandine Kriegel with a mission on "the impact of television violence on the public and on young people". Her report was submitted formally to the Minister on 14 November. The report proposes in particular a reinforcement of the absolute nature of the ban on broadcasting violent images between 6.30 am and 10 pm and the separation of subscription to pornographic shows...

On 12 December 2001, the Conseil d'État, required to deal with an urgent matter, decided to suspend the CSA's decision to refuse the qualification of the animated film Le journal d'Anne Franck as a European work originally made in the French language because of serious doubts concerning the legality of the measure (see IRIS 2002-2: 13). As the procedure for dealing with an urgent matter where suspension is involved requires that an application on the merits be entered, the Conseil d'État delivered a decision on 15 November in which it expressed its opinion that, on the contrary, the film's producer...