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On 10 February 2006, the new Flemish Regulator for the Media (FRM) was officially established. As an external autonomous agency, the FRM is responsible for licensing and supervising radio and television broadcasting organisations, cable networks and radio and television services in the Flemish Community. The FRM integrates the competences of the former Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority), the former Vlaamse Geschillenraad voor Radio en Televisie (Flemish Council for Radio and Television Disputes) and the former Vlaamse Kijk- en Luisterraad (Flemish Listening and Viewing...

This year, Safer Internet Day was celebrated on 7 February. In 37 countries across the world, including 24 EU countries, around 100 organisations participated in this annual event to promote internet safety for children. Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe, the EU network for internet safety awareness. The latter is in line with the European Union's ongoing efforts to make the internet safe for children (see IRIS 2005-9: 3). Insafe organised a global “blogathon” or “blog-marathon”. Organisations active in promoting internet safety and special guests made postings, and visitors, children,...

On 10 December 2005 President Kurban Bakiev of Kyrgyzstan issued a Decree regulating general aspects concerning the establishment of a national public broadcasting company. The Decree endorsed the bylaw of the company. According to the Decree, the public broadcasting company named “Public Television - ELTR” shall be organized on the basis of the state-run Television and Radio Company “OSH - 3000”, located in the town of Osh. Authorized authorities shall provide the new company with a metric wave frequency covering the whole territory of the country. The Government shall be obliged to carry out...

On 23 January 2006, the European Commission submitted to Parliament its amended proposal of the Recommendation on the protection of minors and human dignity in the European audiovisual and online information services industry (see IRIS 2004-6: 5 and IRIS 2005-9: 3). The recommendation had been scrutinized by the European Parliament in September of 2005 and emerged with a number of amendments designed to contribute to the effective protection of minors and human dignity in relation to audiovisual and information services made available to the public “whatever the means of conveyance”. Whereas the...

The European Commission adopted its Fifth Report on the application of the “Television without Frontiers” (TWF) Directive on 10 February 2006. The Commission is required to adopt such bi-annual reports under Article 26, TWF Directive. The period covered by the Fifth Report is 2003 and 2004, a period during which the European Union’s (EU) membership expanded from 15 to 25 Member States. After documenting relevant developments in the television market in Europe and noting that new Member States had to notify their legislation transposing the TWF Directive into national law, the Report embarks on...