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On 25 March 1997 the Monopolies Commission reached its decision on the complaint lodged by Canal Plus against TF1 . Canal Plus claimed that the specific discounts TF1 allowed to advertisers devoting more than half their budget to the channel, and the additional discount for advertisers paying TF1 between FF 1.5 and 45 million for advertising, where this represented between 80 and 100% of their television advertising budget, constituted abuse of a dominant position. The Commission refused the precautionary measures Canal Plus claimed, although it did not deny that such practices might constitute...

The Court of Cassation recently set aside two decisions by the Courts of Appeal in Paris and Rennes on advertising from products which, although not themselves tobacco, evoked tobacco. The products in question carried the brand-names Camel Boots and Camel Trophy. In the first case the decision was set aside on the grounds of violation of rights of the defence. In the second case the High Court addressed the difficult matter of advertising for products commercialised by companies independent of any company manufacturing tobacco products but linked to the latter by brand-name licence agreements....

As soon as the posters appeared throughout France, AGRIF (the French general association against racism and for respect of the French Christian identity) took urgent legal action to obtain a ban on the poster for the film Larry Flynt, on the grounds that it infringed the respect of religious beliefs. The background of the disputed poster showed a woman's body, from the knees to the stomach, clad in a bikini, and superposed on it was the almost stylised image of a man in a crucified position, with the American flag draped round his hips. The judges, taking the classical line of caselaw, while recognising...

On 7 February, the French Senator, Mr Pierre Laffitte, presented his report entitled La France et la société de l'information ("France and the Information Society") on behalf of the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choice.

The French Senate regularly publishes working documents. Among these publications, there is a series of documents which compares the legislation of different States in different subject areas. Recently, a document was published comparing the legislation of different States regarding regulatory authorities in the media sector and of programme standards. The States covered are Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands and the UK. A separate section refers briefly to those provisions in the `Television without Frontiers' Directive that relate to the protection of minors.