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The Turkish Radio-Television Authority, RTÜK, initiated an "Intelligent Signs" (Akıllı İşaretler) system to protect children against the harmful effects of TV broadcasting in Turkey. A pursuant directive shall be designed after a certain test stage. The aim of RTÜK is to develop a sign system "to protect children and youth against harmful media content which may contain bad language; stimulate smoking, alcohol and gambling; suicide; or negative behaviour". The system is based on seven symbols: Four of them show the suitability of programmes according to different age groups (7+, 13+, 18+, or general...

At the end of a six-month EU twinning project, funded to the tune of EUR 90,000 by the European Commission with the purpose of improving the supervision of broadcasting in Latvia, representatives of the Nacionālā Radio un Televīzijas Padome (National Broadcasting Council - NRTP ) and its German partner, the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg Communications Authority - LFK ), discussed their interpretation of the legal framework with representatives of Latvian broadcasting in Riga on 22 August 2006. The interpretation guidelines concern the protection of minors,...

On 11 July 2006 the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ) adopted a new version of the Act on Provision of Information to the Public, which came into force on 1 September 2006. The Act was first adopted in 1996. The new version of the Act provides for the following new elements: announcements, information society media means, information society service, information regarding pornographic content, information regarding erotic content, information regarding violent content, news broadcasts. The confidentiality of information sources was finally regulated by this Act. In Lithuania there were a lot of...

At the beginning of September 2006, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) launched the third and final phase of the consultation process in the development of a new code of programme standards, as provided for by section 19 of the Broadcasting Act 2001 (see IRIS 2001-4: 9). The draft code includes provision for audience information and guidance by issuing prior warnings for programme material which has the potential to offend, by using the watershed or by implementing an evaluative or descriptive classification system (s.2.2). There are special provisions for the protection of children,...

A viewer has complained to the UK regulator, Ofcom, about certain scenes in cartoons featuring Tom and Jerry (“Texas Tom” and “Tennis Chumps”). In both, the issue is smoking, either to impress or to glamorise it. Rule 1.10 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code states: The use of illegal drugs, the abuse of drugs, smoking, solvent abuse and the misuse of alcohol: - must not be featured in programmes made primarily for children unless there is strong editorial justification; - must generally be avoided and in any case must not be condoned, encouraged or glamorised in other programmes broadcast before the...