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The Digital Economy Act received royal assent on 8 April 2010 and came into force (with the exception of certain sections which were granted immediate effect) on 8 June 2010. The Act is intended to regulate digital media and, to a large extent, implements the legislative proposals of last summer’s Digital Britain report (see IRIS 2009-8: 14/20). The Act includes provisions relating to the UK’s communications infrastructure, public service broadcasting, copyright licensing and online infringement of copyright, as well as security and safety online and in video games. Most of the provisions of the...

On 3 June 2010 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media, CNA) imposed a 10-minute prime-time interruption in broadcasting on the commercial TV station Antena 1, as a sanction for its repeated breach of regulations concerning the protection of minors (see IRIS 2008-5: 17/27). Antena 1 was ordered to broadcast between 19.00 and 19.10 an announcement of the sanction issued by CNA for repeated breaches of the Audiovisual Law and of the Audiovisual Code in the show „Acces Direct” („Direct Access”). The Show is broadcast live from Monday to Friday between 17.00...

On 1 June 2010, the European Union Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive was transposed in its entirety into Maltese law. This was done through eight different pieces of legislation. The Broadcasting (Amendment) Act, 2010 - Act No. IV of 2010 - was enacted by Parliament and published in the Malta Government Gazette of 4 June 2010. This law entered into force on 1 June 2010 in accordance with Legal Notice 320 of 2010, the Commencement Notice of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act. Whilst Act No. IV of 2010 transposed several of the AVMS Directive’s rules, certain other provisions of the Directive...

The Act designed to open up to competition and regulate the on-line gaming sector adopted on 6 April 2010 was gazetted on 13 May 2010, after validation by the Constitutional Council, thereby achieving the French Government’s aim of allowing the market to be liberalised before the start of the football World Cup. The Act is intended to open up the market for on-line gaming (betting on sporting events, betting on horse racing, and poker) in a regulated fashion by authorising, through the new authority regulating on-line gaming (Autorité de Régulation des Jeux en Ligne - ARJEL), operators who will...

In a deliberation adopted on 22 July 2008 “aimed at protecting children under the age of three years from the effects of television”, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) required the distributors of television services established in France to warn their subscribers regularly of the risks television poses for children under the age of three years, even in the case of channels directed specifically at them, and to pass on the same message in their communication documents and in their subscription contracts. Promotion of television services presented as being...