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On 1 July 2006, German mobile telephone service providers O2 Germany, The Phone House Telecom, T-Mobile and Vodafone joined the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e. V. (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers - FSM). The FSM is responsible, for example, for the self-monitoring of online content, and is part of the German co-regulatory system for the protection of young people in the audiovisual media. For the mobile phone companies that have joined the FSM, implementation of the 2005 code of conduct for mobile phone providers in Germany concerning the...

On 5 May 2006, the Norwegian Government tabled a legal proposal allowing for substantial amendments to the Lov om Film- og Videogram (the Act on Film and Video - AFV). Abolishing censorship of cinema films aimed at adults is one of the crucial changes. Accordingly, only films with an audience including children (below 18 years) intended for public showing at cinemas need approval by the Media Authority. The Media Authority is authorized to determine age classifications, which remain at four levels in Norway: ”for all”, above 7 years, above 11 years and above 15 years (in the event that an adult...

On 6 April 2006, the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court - BGH) ruled on the admissibility under competition law of ring tone advertising in children's magazines. The Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände (Federation of German Consumer Organisations) had complained that an advertisement for mobile phone ring tones in a children's magazine had only mentioned download costs per minute. The Federation believed that young people were unable to estimate the length of the download and the resulting overall cost. Since this information did not appear in the advertisement,...

On 24 March 2006, the Swiss Parliament adopted a new Radio and Television Act, which will ensure that the Schweizerische Rundspruchgesellschaft (SRG) continues to provide a strong public broadcasting service in the future. The Act also relaxed certain restrictions on private broadcasters and strengthened support for local and regional private broadcasters from licence fee revenue (fee sharing). The dual model originally proposed in the draft Radio and Television Act (with SRG on the one hand as a public service broadcaster funded through the licence fee, and private broadcasters in free competition...

On 22 February 2006 the State Duma (parliament) of the Russian Federation adopted the Federal Statute “On Advertising”. It replaces the statute of the same name of 1995 (see IRIS 1995-9: 9). The new statute has six chapters and 40 articles. Under advertising the statute understands the distribution of information in any form with the help of any media, which is intended for an indeterminate group of persons and is directed at forming or supporting interest in the objects of advertising and facilitating market advancement of such objects. As before the statute does not regulate political advertising....