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After public consultation last autumn, during which all the parties concerned had an opportunity of airing their concerns (see IRIS 2002-10: 8), the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the ministry with responsibility for industry has now drawn up a preliminary bill on electronic communications. This is part of a very wide-ranging reform of the regulations that apply to telecommunications activities embarked on at European level in 1999 and which includes the adoption on 7 March 2002 of six directives and one decision, often referred to collectively as the "telecoms package" (see IRIS 2002-3:...

After stating and supplementing the existing arrangements for limiting the television broadcasting of "Category V" programmes, ie cinematographic works that may not be shown to people under the age of 18 years and pornographic or very violent programmes, (see IRIS 2003-4: 9), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) has now turned to those in Category III - works that are deemed not suitable for children under the age of 12 and works that may not be screened in cinemas to children under the age of 12. These programmes may not be broadcast in the 20:30h slot by...

After calling for a ban on broadcasting pornographic films on television (see IRIS 2002-8: 7 and IRIS 2002-10: 10) taking note of the recommendations contained in the Kriegel report on violence on television (see IRIS 2003-1: 9), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audio-visual regulatory body - CSA) has now adopted a deliberation that details and supplements the existing arrangements in order to restrict the broadcasting of programmes of this type on television (programmes that fall into the so-called "Category V", which covers "cinematographic works that may not be shown to young people under...

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...