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The Prime Ministers of the German Länder agreed at their conference in Berlin on 25 March 2010 on a draft amendment to the Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media - JMStV). The draft of the new treaty is based on the principle of regulated self-regulation or co-regulation. For example, it enables providers, inter alia, to rate their offerings according to the age groups (0, 6, 12, 16 and 18) mentioned in the Jugendschutzgesetz (Youth Protection Act - JuSchG) on the basis of their own assessment and/or confirmation or an assessment by the Anerkannte...

In two recent decisions, both chambers of the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Regulator for the Media - monitoring and enforcement of media regulation) condemned the public broadcasting corporation VRT for breach of the Flemish media regulation. On 19 January 2010, the Kamer voor Onpartijdigheid en Bescherming van Minderjarigen (Chamber for Impartiality and the Protection of Minors) rendered a decision regarding the transmission of a trailer around 8 p.m., just before the beginning of the family series ‘Dieren in Nesten’ (freely translated, ‘Animals in Trouble’). This series follows the...

Representatives of the Inspectoratul General al Poliţiei Române (General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police), the Ministerul Public (Public Prosecutor's Office) and the Centrul Român pentru Copii Dispăruţi şi Exploataţi Sexual (Romanian Centre for Missing and Sexually Abused Children - FOCUS) held a public meeting on 25 February 2010 in order to discuss how to implement the European project for national warning systems for abducted and missing children in Romania. Romanian broadcasters and the Direcţia pentru Apel Unic de Urgenţă „112“ (Office for the Single Emergency Number "112") are also involved...

On 1 March 2010, the Italian Council of Ministers passed an amended draft legislative decree for the implementation of Directive 2007/65/EC on Audiovisual Media Services (AVMSD), to address the recommendations by the relevant Parliamentary Committees on the Government’s earlier version of the bill, presented on 17 December 2009 (see IRIS 2010-2: 1/25). In the context of the consultations on the original bill, several stakeholders had voiced concerns about the purported extension of the rules on audiovisual media services to private blogs and websites publishing user-generated audiovisual content,...

In 1984 the UK Parliament passed the Video Recordings Act. This statute covered not only videos, but also DVDs and some video games. It provided for them to be classified and age-rated by the British Board of Film Classification and also created a number of criminal offences related to the act of supplying this material without classification or in breach of the classification. Since 1984 this system has been a well-established feature of the UK media landscape. During the preparatory work for the Digital Economy Bill currently before Parliament it was discovered that the classification and labelling...