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In its report on Turkey's progress towards EU accession, the European Commission describes inter alia the legal situation in the audiovisual sphere. The yardstick for assessing the situation in Turkey is the EC's "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. As an example of progress made in this field, the report highlights a regulation adopted in January 2004 concerning radio and television broadcasts in languages and dialects traditionally used by Turkish citizens, as a result of which it is now possible to broadcast nationwide radio and TV programmes in languages other than Turkish. However, the...

In the context of its ongoing review of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (ECTT), the Standing Committee on Transfrontier Television recently oversaw a public consultation process concerning the ECTT's provisions on advertising, sponsorship and tele-shopping (Articles 11-18). The consultation was initiated in October and concluded on 31 December. The basis for the consultation was a discussion document prepared by the Delegate of Austria; submissions were to focus on questions on which consensus had not yet been reached within the Standing Committee. Those issues were indicated...

The Internet Advisory Board ["the Board"] has published the results of research on children and the use of new media, presented by the Board at its annual conference on 18 October 2004. The Board was set up on the recommendation of a government report in 1998 on "Illegal and Harmful Use of the Internet" (see IRIS 2000-3: 28). Its task is to facilitate the self-regulation of the Internet in Ireland and to monitor developments. The latest research carried out among parents and children to ascertain patterns regarding access and use of new technological media by children shows that although children...

Under Article 32 of Act No. 231/2001 on radio and television broadcasting, the Czech Republic's Council for Radio and Television ensures the protection of minors in respect of broadcast programmes. Specifically, the Council must ensure that no programme likely to be detrimental to the physical, mental or moral development of minors is broadcast on radio or television except where it is deliberately broadcast at a time when minors would not normally hear or see it. Thus no sound radio programme may be broadcast between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm if it might be offensive to minors. The Council...

At its 37th meeting, on 11 and 12 October 2004, the Standing Committee on Transfrontier Television issued a Recommendation on the protection of minors from pornographic programmes. In its Recommendation the Standing Committee noted that, as a result of growing competition, an increase in pornographic programme services could be observed in some countries. The Standing Committee found this phenomenon particularly worrying with respect to free-to-air programme services which could be easily accessed by minors and could seriously impair their development. Referring to the ban on pornographic content...