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The recommendation refers to coverage of news both relating to and not relating to the forthcoming local elections. One of the items reminds candidates who work in the audiovisual communication services of the need to be particularly attentive that any radio or television appearances they might make should not in any way affect the rights of candidates to equal air time and consequently the authenticity of the election. On 10 May, the opinion poll commission drew attention to the fact that the regulations of the 1977 law relating to the publication and broadcasting of opinion polls were applicable...

The aim of the Convention is to facilitate transfrontier transmission and retransmission of television programme services. The Convention includes : - general provisions relating to its field of application, freedom of reception and retransmission, undertakings made by the transmitting Parties, transparency ; - provisions relating to programming, concerning the responsibilities of the broadcaster, the right of reply, public access to major events, cultural objectives ; - advertising and sponsoring - mutual assistance, the Permanent Committee, amendments and alleged breaches of this convention...

The Decree of 9 May 1995 sets out to lay down the statutory requirements (especially the minimum percentage of European-made works and those in the French language) for those television channels that rely for their financing on payment by their audiences and which devote at least 50% of their daily broadcasting time to programmes that are governed by special conditions. General provisions concern unencrypted programmes, advertising and sponsoring, the broadcasting of cinematographic and audiovisual works, as well as the contribution to the development of cinematographic and audiovisual production...

On 24 April 1995, following a Decision of the Minister of the Interior and Regional Planning, the work by Youssef Quaradhawi, entitled "What's lawful and unlawful in Islam", published in French and Arabic, is considered as a foreign written work of a nature likely to provoke public disorder. The sale, distribution and circulation of the work have been banned for the whole of the country. The reasons given were the distinctly anti-western tone of the book (published by éditions Al Qalam in Paris) as well as the arguments put forward that ran counter to fundamental Republican laws and values. Meanwhile,...

According to the general provisions of Art.1, candidates have the right to equal air-time in the programmes of national broadcasting companies, with the same production, programming and broadcasting conditions. Should the candidates not use up all the time allocated to them for any single broadcast, then they cannot add the remaining time to another of their broadcasts. Any difficulties that may arise from the application and interpretation of this decision come under the CSA ( Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - Audiovisual Supervisory Board). When the list of candidates is published in the Official...