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On 29 November 2007, the European Parliament approved without amendments the Council’s Common Position on the proposed new Audiovisual Media Services without Frontiers Directive. The Common Position adopted on 15 October 2007 formalised a text which had throughout the legislative process been the object of inter-institutional negotiations: the informal contacts between the Parliament, the Commission and the Council culminated in a final text approved with no amendments by Parliament. The Commission had originally proposed a regulatory construction consisting of a core of rules applicable to all...

The Council of the Communications Regulatory Agency (RAK), at its September session, has decided to hold public consultations on draft changes and amendments to the Broadcasting Code of Practice. The original version of the Broadcasting Code of Practice was adopted in 1998 and has since been changed and amended in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004. The new draft brings substantial changes in line with the basic principles of the EU with regard to the broadcasting sector. Unlike the existing Code which comprises only five brief chapters and a dozen paragraphs and sections, the new Draft consists of 35 paragraphs....

In the proceedings relating to the issue referred by the regional court in Koblenz for an intermediary decision (case C-244/06; see IRIS 2006-9: 5), Advocate-General Mengozzi has presented his final proposal. He proposed that the ban, established in §12 para. 3 No. 2 of the German Protection of Young Persons Act, on mail-order sales of video material that has no reference to their having been given clearance for access by young persons under national arrangements, is compatible with community law. The ban, described as “terms of sale” is not a measure of equivalent effect to that under Art. 28...

On 6 June 2007, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national broadcasting authority - CNA) published a recommendation on the reporting of tragic events involving children and teenagers. In the recommendation, the CNA states that the fate and problems of many young people currently represent "a sensitive issue, which Romanian society is not dealing with in a satisfactory way". According to the CNA, a lack of parental supervision and guidance in families in which both parents work abroad, and the poor upbringing offered by schools (where education is concerned more with the quantitative transfer...

The Izmjene i dopune Zakona o elektroničkim medijima (Law Amending the Electronic Media Law) came into force on 7 August 2007. The Law has introduced a series of amendments to the media legislation of the Republic of Croatia for the purpose of its alignment with EU legislation. New provisions on the protection of minors have been introduced, stipulating that no programme content that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors shall be allowed, in particular content containing pornography or gratuitous violence. Programme content likely to impair the physical, mental...