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Decision N° 403 of 30 June 2005 of the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national supervisory body for electronic audiovisual media - CNA ) defines the procedure and conditions applicable in Romania for the granting of national, regional and local licences. After a number of definitions set out in Art. 2 (eg. “audiovisual licence“, “national”, “regional”, “local” licence, “telecommunications network“), Art. 3 explains that audiovisual licences for terrestrial broadcasting are granted on the basis of tenders, and that in the case of network broadcasting ( reţea de telecomunicaţii), licensing...

On 7 June 2005 the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (national audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) adopted a recommendation directed at the editors of television services broadcasting on all the networks (terrestrial, cable, satellite, Internet, ADSL, etc) on minimum age marking and programme classification with regard to the protection of minors. The text recalls established principles, states that its main intention is to extend these obligations, until now contained in the agreements, to all channels, particularly those merely requiring declaration because they do not constitute a service providing...

In its bid to modernise the rules governing Europe's media industry, the Commission deployed plans a few years ago to revise the Television without Frontiers Directive. In order to do so effectively, the Commission initiated consultations in 2003 (see IRIS 2004-1: 6 and IRIS 2003-2: 5) which drew remarks and analyses from experts and stakeholders on future EU rules for audiovisual content. The findings that emerged from these consultations are that the European audiovisual sector is drastically changing as a result of technological innovations which make media convergence more of a reality. This...

On 6 May 2005, the Turkish broadcasting regulator (RTÜK) announced that it planned to remove four channels showing erotic content from the list of channels transmitted by the satellite company Digitürk. The channels concerned - Adult Channel, Exotica TV, Playboy TV and Rouge TV - are all broadcast from abroad and have about 12,000 subscribers in Turkey. They will no longer be available in Turkey because the regulator claims they infringe "the moral values of the nation". Digitürk has already said it will appeal against the ban. The RTÜK also issued warnings to eight private broadcasters for showing...

Saeima, the Parliament of Latvia, is planning to make a short, but important amendment to the Radio and Television law, stipulating that the prohibition of harmful content is in force in the period between 07.00 - 24.00, instead of the current period of 07.00 - 22.00. The existing regulation is as follows: Article 18 section 4 of Radio and Television Act envisages that ”[B]roadcasting organisations may not distribute programmes and broadcasts with such content as may be harmful to the normal physical, mental and moral development of children and adolescents, except in cases when a specific broadcasting...