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The Communications Act 2003 has now finished its passage through Parliament and became law on 17 July 2003 (see IRIS 2002-6: 9, IRIS 2002-7: 12 and IRIS 2002-8: 7). The Act is long and complex and makes major changes both to regulatory institutions and to the law relating to broadcasting; the main themes of the legislation are as follows. First, the Act gives regulatory powers to a new institution, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), to replace five earlier ones, including the Independent Television Commission and the Radio Authority (the Office had already been established in preliminary form...

Following the decision by the channel TF1 to broadcast the film Titanic in two parts on 19 and 20 November 2002, the ARP (association of authors, producers and directors) submitted an urgent application to suspend the execution of the decision of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to allow the broadcast (see IRIS 2002-­1: 7). The application was rejected by the President of the Litigation Division of the Conseil d'Etat. The ARP, the association of film directors (SRF) and the association of authors and film-makers (SACD) had also submitted to the Conseil...

On 22 July 2003, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) published its opinion on the two draft decrees amending Article 8 of the Decree of 27 March 1992. The latter decree in particular prohibits television advertising for the following products and economic sectors: literary publishing, cinema, press and large-scale distribution. Both draft decrees were written in response to the European Commission's order, issued on 7 May 2002, that France should repeal these provisions (see IRIS 2002-­9: 10). In its opinion, the CSA analyses the government's proposals for...

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...