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In the course of its 25th session, the Croatian Parliament discussed the proposed Draft Law Amending the Electronic Media Law. On 20 April 2007, the Parliament reached the decision to adopt the proposal, while any comments, proposals and opinions on the draft should be addressed to the Government, who had prepared the proposal for a final version. The draft regulates the following fundamental issues: - It stipulates that a natural person may also be an electronic media broadcaster; - It deletes the provision explicitly binding electronic publications to the activities of producing and transmitting...

As the guarantor, under Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, of the protection of children and young people on television, the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) adopted, on 17 April, a deliberation concerning the participation of minors in television broadcasts. Expanding upon the undertakings contained in the agreements between the CSA and the channels, the purpose of this deliberation is to set out in detail the arrangements required of all French television services in order to “preserve the physical, mental and moral development of young participants”,...

On 26 April 2007, the Bundestag Sub-Committee on New Media held an expert hearing on “The protection of minors in the media and violent computer games”. In his introduction, the Director of the Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen e.V. (Lower Saxony Criminal Research Institute - KFN) showed a number of violent scenes from computer games and described the aims of these games, all of which were to move up to a higher level in the game hierarchy. He then presented the results of studies that allegedly prove that extremely violent computer games make young people more aggressive. According...

In a decision of 3 April 2007, the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Regulator for the Media) expresses the opinion that an episode of "Sex & the City", broadcast by Vijf TV SBS Belgium between 19:15h and 19:45h has violated Article 96 § 1 of the Broadcasting Act (Decreten betreffende de radio-omroep en de televisie, Mediadecreet). This article transposes Article 22 of the TVWF Directive into the Flemish Broadcasting Act, prohibiting the broadcasting of programmes that could harm the physical, mental or moral development of minors, unless the choice of the time of transmission, or technical...

On the basis of Article 37 para.1, point 5 of the Act on Broadcasting Activity, the Broadcasting Council of the Republic of Macedonia adopts decisions, rules, conclusions, recommendations, instructions and other acts, and also adopts views and proposals for the implementation of the law. Among the recently adopted Rulebooks, one that had certainly caught the public attention in the Republic of Macedonia was the Rulebook on the protection of minors from programmes that might harm their physical, mental or moral development. The media, NGO’s and individuals contributed to the productive public debate...