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According to Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) guarantees the protection of children and young people and ensures that programmes likely to be damaging to the physical, mental or moral development of minors are not made available to the public by a sound broadcasting service unless it is assured, because of the broadcasting time chosen, that minors would not normally be likely to hear them. Under this Article, the CSA adopted a deliberation on 10 February prohibiting any sound broadcasting service...

As Ireland currently holds the presidency of the EU, the Minister for Communications has indicated that the protection of minors in the area of broadcasting will be one of his main priorities. The EU Commission is due to publish an update to the Recommendation on the Protection of Minors and Human Dignity in March with a view to a policy discussion on it at the meeting of the Council of Ministers in May. An informal Ministerial Council to be held in Ireland in early March will also discuss the future role of broadcasting in promoting and maintaining cultural diversity in an enlarged Europe.

In mid-January the Consiliul National al Audiovizualu, lui (National Audiovisual Council ­ CNA) imposed fines on two television broadcasters for breaches of regulations designed to protect minors. The two private broadcasters, Antena 1 and Pro TV, had both broadcast video footage in their TV magazine programmes of a young person committing suicide. In addition, Antena 1 had broadcast a documentary on child pornography on the Internet including only slightly concealed scenes from one of the allegedly pornographic films involving minors. The CNA held that in view of their potentially harmful effect,...

On 19 November 2003, the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Innovation and Technology and the main associations of Internet service providers signed a new self-regulatory Code of Conduct aimed at protecting children from potentially damaging use of, and from unsuitable content on, the Internet. On the basis of the self-prescribed set of rules, Internet providers will not only implement and promote measures in order to provide differentiated navigation services (which restrict or exclude access to certain content), but they will also provide content classification and will abstain from...

On 27 January 2004 the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities (DLM) dealt with questions concerning the acceptability of a so-called survival show (" Ich bin ein Star ­ Holt mich hier raus! " "I'm a Celebrity ­ Get Me Out of Here!"), in which "celebrities" were put in a camp in the jungle and required to perform certain unpleasant tasks. Viewers voted to decide who was to leave the camp and be eliminated from the competition. Immediately broadcasting of the show started, the Regional Media Authorities had asked the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection...