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In parallel with the increased use of co-regulation systems in the context of the protection of minors, a legal requirement has been introduced to evaluate the effectiveness of these systems. In preparation for the evaluation by the legislature, the Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) examined, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Länder, whether and to what extent youth media protection works effectively. According to the results of the study, the new approach to youth media protection established in 2003 (see IRIS 2002-9: 15) has improved...

In a recommendation dated 22 August 2007, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA), the Romanian regulator for the electronic media, expressed its concern that sports news in Romanian television programmes, including the programmes of the public broadcasters, often contained reports on violence in football stadiums and aggressive statements and examples of vulgar behaviour by fans. “The excessive media coverage of these rare but regrettable occurrences is leading to their dominating the total time available for sports news.” The CNA accordingly issued a reminder...

The leading German mobile telephone companies intend to work with the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e.V. (Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Multimedia Service Providers - FSM), which was set up by media associations and online marketing companies in 1997, to take action against violent and pornographic videos sent to the mobile telephones of children and young people. On the initiative of the Rhineland-Palatinate Youth Ministry, the companies have signed a voluntary undertaking according to which the network operators Debitel, E-Plus, Mobilcom, Talkline, T-Mobile,...

On 18 October 2007, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice - BGH ) ruled that making pornographic offerings accessible on the Internet by simply entering an identification card or passport number did not meet the demands of legislation on the protection of minors (Case no. I ZR 102/05). Nor was it sufficient to impose an additional requirement to effect an account transaction or state a postcode. The parties to the dispute were both suppliers of age verification systems (AVSs) for operators of websites with pornographic content. The purpose of these systems is to prevent minors from accessing...

The European Commission adopted its Sixth Report on the application of the “Television without Frontiers” (TWF) Directive on 24 October 2007. The Commission is required to adopt such bi-annual reports under Article 26, TWF Directive. The period covered by the Sixth Report is 2005 and 2006. The main objective of this report is to describe and analyse the salient facts relating to the application of the Directive during this period. The Report commences with an outline of recent developments in the television market in Europe. This explanation of developments is followed by a discussion of the Foreign...