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The Landtag (State parliament) in Vienna has unanimously adopted an amendment to the Wiener Jugendschutzgesetz (Vienna Youth Protection Act) concerning computer and video games, which entered into force on 1 December 2008 and includes an obligation for computer games to be properly labelled. Packaging must now display the standard PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) symbols which have been developed at European level by the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE). As well as an age rating, the symbols provide information about problematic content such as violence, sex and racism. Until...

The Legea nr. 303 din 03/12/2008 privind cinematografia (Film Law No. 303) published in December 2008 brought about a number of key changes to Law No. 328/2006 especially with regard to the funding of independent film productions (see IRIS 2005-8: 18). For example, the new version of section 13(1) provides that the film fund shall be financed from the following sources among others: - 3% of the sales and rentals of recorded video cassettes, DVDs and other media carriers that can be copied in video format or by digital means; dealers and distributors of such carriers must provide the Centrul Naţional...

The public service Radio and Television Slovenia (RTV) has established a Viewer and Listener Ombudsman in June 2007 and the person in charge was appointed to this position on 1 May 2008. At the end of November 2008 the Ombudswoman made the first public complaint related to the radio and television programming. She opposed the change of the broadcasting time of the children’s cartoons, which was stable for decades. On 17 November 2008 Television Slovenia started a new format -a telenovela titled ”Passions” which has been produced in-house. Like Mexican and Columbian telenovelas on the Slovenian...

The Council for Electronic Media adopted a Rulebook on TV broadcasters for the purpose of the protection of minors in April 2008 (see IRIS 2008-7: 14). Implementaion of the Rulebook by TV broadcasters was to commence subsequent to the receipt of standard graphic marks by the Council. After receiving the graphic marks, broadcasters on the national level (commercial) notified the Council that they could not start with the implementation of the Rulebook because of technical deficiencies and aesthetically unacceptable suggested graphic marks. To overcome the implementation problems, the Council for...

On 4 November the Conseil d’Etat rejected the application made by a cinematographic distribution company for the cancellation of the classification certificate issued one year earlier by the Minister for Culture for the film Quand l’Embryon Part Braconner that required that the film was not to be shown to anyone under the age of 18 years. The applicant felt that the decision, based on the violent and pornographic nature of the film, was disproportionate and flawed by a manifest error of appreciation. Backed by the national federation of film distributors, the applicant claimed that “the use of...