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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...

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...