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On 17 July 2002, the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin asked Michel Boyon, a former chairman of Radio France, to report on certain aspects of digital terrestrial television (DTT) in order to enlighten the Government in its decision-making on three points - financing methods and an evaluation of the cost of the operations for reorganising frequencies necessary for setting up terrestrial digital television, the parameters of the public-service television channels on DTT, and the conditions for developing local television stations. This followed on from questions from the Chairman of the Conseil...

At its plenary meeting on 1 October 2002, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) adopted the text of its response to the evolution of French law on electronic communications as part of the public consultation launched by the Government with a view to incorporating the "Telecoms Package" into national legislation. For the audiovisual sector, the public consultation broaches many questions that, without necessarily being directly linked to the incorporation of Community texts in national legislation, touch on the very organisation of regulation and the legal...

On 15 October, the Chairman of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) renewed his call for the public authorities (see IRIS 2002-8: 7) to incorporate Article 22 of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive word-for-word in the Audiovisual Communications Act, thereby formally prohibiting the broadcasting of pornographic programmes on French television. According to Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the CSA is required to ensure that no programme likely to be seriously damaging to the normal physical, mental or moral development of minors is made...

For the first time to our knowledge, the Conseil d'État has been called on to determine whether a sanction imposed by the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuelthe audiovisual regulatory body) complies with Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The CSA had formally ordered a radio station to abide by its undertakings to broadcast a programme of local interest in accordance with its agreement, which stated that the licence-holder undertook to broadcast a daily programme of local interest lasting 23 hours 30 minutes, excluding advertising....

With the adoption of friendly settlements in the cases of Altan v. Turkey on 14 May 2002 (see IRIS 2002-7: 2-3), Ali Erol v. Turkey on 20 June 2002, Özler v. Turkey on 11 July 2002, Sürek (no. 5) v. Turkey on 16 July 2002 (see IRIS 2002-9: 4) and Mehmet Bayrak v. Turkey on 3 September 2002 (see IRIS 2002-10: 3), several violations of the right to freedom of expression were recognised by the Turkish authorities. In two recent cases, the European Court of Human Rights again came to the conclusion that Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights had not been respected by the Turkish...