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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...

On 10 April 1995, Mr. Jacques Toubon, the Minister of Culture and French Language ( ministre de la culture et de la francophonie), took seven Decisions for the application of the Decree of 2 February 1995 relating to State financial backing for the audio-visual programme industry ( see IRIS 1995-3:6). These decisions relate to: - the organisation and operation of the commissions provided for in paragraph 1 or article 5 of the Decree of 2 February 1995 : a commission set up to give an opinion on requests for funds for the production and preparation of works of fiction, excluding sketches, cartoons,...

By Decision of 23 February 1995, the French media authority, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has inflicted a sanction upon the broadcaster Télé Toulouse (T.L.T.) for not respecting the advertising rules. In France, terrestrial broadcasters that broadcast their programmes unencrypted are not allowed to broadcast advertising messages stemming from advertisers that are active in the economic sector of distribution. This prohibition is laid down in Article 8 of Decree n° 92-280 of 27 March 1992. Article 9 of this Decree prohibits illegal advertising. According to the CSA, T.L.T. had...

On 13 January 1995, TF1 was fined FRF 4,980,000 by the Conseil d'Etat for not keeping to standards laid down for television sponsoring. The channel was accused of failing to include in the credit titles the name of the programme's sponsor, Tiercé Magazine : likewise, as the magazine was quoted by name during the main part of the programme, this in turn means the offence comes under Article 7 of the decree of 26 January 1987, which bans press advertising messages. Moreover, with regard to the sponsorship, TF1 was also accused of having quoted the name of the magazine too often during the programme,...