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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...

Under the terms of Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (amended), the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory authority in France - CSA) is responsible for ensuring that children and young people are not shown television programmes that could be damaging for their development. At its plenary assembly on 20 December 2005, the CSA adopted a recommendation on television broadcasting of certain types of extremely violent fighting contests. In addition to the principles of dignity of the human person and maintenance of public order mentioned in the 1986 Act, the CSA text also...

On 1 September 2005 the National Broadcasting Council (NBC) adopted a position on the Issues Papers presented by the European Commission, in the framework of the public consultation on the revision of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The adopted documents have been sent to the Commission. The NBC supported the basic premise that the new Directive should include regulations that will be technologically neutral and will take into account media convergence, and that a complex and integrated approach to the Information Society and to audiovisual media services was necessary. It also supported...

On 26 October 2005 the Saeima (Parliament of the Republic of Latvia) adopted amendments to the Act on Press and Other Mass Media. This Act is one of the first Laws adopted in Latvia after the regain of independence. It was adopted on 20 December 1990 and is still in force as the general Law applicable to all kinds of mass media. This Act is also the only Law regulating the printed media, as the electronic media are governed by the special Radio and Television Law as well. Initially the amendments were planned to be of a formal nature: to bring the out-of-date wording and terminology of the law...

On 5 December 2005, the Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (Regional Media and Communications Office - LMK) of Rheinland-Pfalz imposed a fine of EUR 12,000 against an Internet Service Provider. In the LMK's opinion, the ISP had offered users paedophile content, thus breaching the provisions of the Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Youth Protection in the Media - JMStV). Under Art. 4.9 JMStV, content is unlawful if it portrays children and young people in an unnatural sexual way. The ISP had linked its sub-domains via a portal. In these domains, it had set up preview...