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The Broadcasting Council, which monitors broadcasting in the Czech Republic, has imposed fines on several Czech TV broadcasters. In one case, broadcasters repeatedly showed an advertisement for a brand of sweet, in which a girl threw her doll at a car at a street crossing so that the activated airbags trapped the car's occupants against the back of their seats. The girl then took a sweet from the hand of an astonished woman sitting in the car. A voice then said: "(name of brand) - when you must, you must". In the Broadcasting Council's view, this advertisement was aimed at minors and encouraged...

The Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Federal Communications Office - BAKOM) has declared that plans by French TV channel M6 to broadcast a Swiss advertising window are "unwelcome" as far as Swiss media policy is concerned. The BAKOM estimates that the Swiss media sector loses around CHF 107 million in advertising revenue each year because of advertising windows already operating on German TV channels. In the Frenchspeaking areas, it is reckoned that a Swiss advertising window broadcast by M6 could deprive the public broadcaster Télévision Suisse romande of advertising revenue worth approximately CHF...

On 21 December 2000 the President of Lithuania signed into law amendments to the law "On provision of information to the public (1996)". The amendments provide for further changes in broadcasting law pursuant to Lithuania's obligations under the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. First, the law clarifies the requirements to protect minors from programmes detrimental to their physical, intellectual and moral development, particularly that which is linked with pornography and (or) gratuitous portrayal of violence (Art.18). It eliminates the requirement to mark with a special visual...

The UK regulator, the Independent Television Commission (ITC), has fined a major private broadcaster, London Weekend Television, GBP 100,000 for breaches of its Code of Programme Sponsorship. The breaches occurred in a series "Club@vision" which was aimed at young people and included features on nightclubs. The series was produced by an independent production company and commissioned by ITV, the major private network, as a co-production with London Weekend Television. A complaint was made to the regulator that clubs were being asked to pay a fee and to contribute to production expenses to ensure...

On 24 July, the CSA (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel - the audiovisual regulatory authority) signed a new agreement with the company Métropole Télévision (M6). Appended to the decision to prolong the channel's authorisation to broadcast, this will govern the channel's obligations for the next five years. A considerable proportion of the content of the agreement results from the high-profile debate aroused by the broadcasting of Loft Story on M6. A number of points have been added to the agreement with the channel, whose ethical obligations have been reinforced, particularly as regards the rights...