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On 20 August 2003, a law was published amending the Privatfernsehgesetz (Private Television Act) and authorising the use of terrestrial digital transmission capacities. logue broadcasting licences to transmit their programmes digitally on a trial basis "in order to test out digital broadcasting techniques". The regulatory body is required to allow the public service broadcaster ORF and private TV companies as defined in the Privatfernsehgesetz to test digital broadcasting techniques and programme-related developments in accordance with available transmission capacities. According to Section 54.3...

In February this year, Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV (the Swedish Broadcasting Commission) had to decide whether the national commercial television channel TV4, could be blamed because of its refusal to broadcast a commercial concerning scientific testing on animals. The commercial was a parody of the well-known commercial for L'oréal with the slogan: "because I'm worth it". The testing was illustrated by a brief cartoon, in which a small animal had, for example, corrosive acid sprayed in his eyes. A beautiful real-life woman said ironically that she wanted to protect what were the most precious...

At its meeting on 19 and 20 May 2003, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Congress of Land Media Authority Directors - DLM) decided that the Landesmedienanstalten (Land Media Authorities) and the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for Youth Protection in the Media - KJM), which was set up in April this year, should act to combat the increasing number and form of telephone sex advertisements and sex clips on television. The decision was taken on the basis of the survey of "telephone sex advertisements and sex clips" carried out by the Gemeinsame Stelle Jugendschutz, Programm,...

At its meeting on 23 May 2003, the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) gave its opinion on the planned revision of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive (Council Directive 97/36/EC amending Directive 89/552/EEC). The Bundesrat welcomed the efforts already made by the European Commission to initiate a debate on the potential need for the regulatory framework to be adapted and, as part of the further development of the Directive, to take into account all specific instruments of European audio-visual policy and their interaction with other policy areas. This strategy should help to pursue...

On 17 April the long-awaited new decree on broadcasting came into force in the French-speaking Community of Belgium, replacing the old decree on the audio-visual sector dating back to 17 July 1987 and the decree of 24 July 1997 on the audio-visual regulatory body (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel ­ CSA) and private radio broadcasting services in the French-speaking Community (see IRIS 1997-8: 14). The new decree encompasses all the legislation on the audio-visual sector in the French-speaking Community with the exception of the public-sector service (RTBF), which remains governed by the decree...