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The Federal Government and the Länder, who agreed in 1996 to distinguish between tele- and media services, have decided to abolish the distinction in favour of a common regulatory system in order to take into account media convergence. It was announced at the telecommunications day organised by the industry association Bitkom in Berlin on 14 December 2004 that draft reforms of the law on tele- and media services should be put down for discussion in April 2005. They will include the total abolition of the current Mediendienstestaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Media Services) and its replacement...

In a ruling of 4 November 2004, the Bayerische Verwaltungsgericht München (Bavarian Administrative Court, Munich - BayVG) annulled most of the provisions of a decision of the Bayerische Landeszentrale für Neue Medien (Bavarian New Media Office - BLM) banning the repeat transmission of six episodes of MTV's "Freak Show". On 28 June 2002, the BLM had banned MTV from showing repeats of these programmes, which had already been broadcast, and declared the decision immediately enforceable. MTV's request to the BayVG to delay the enforceability of the decision was granted because the Court did not believe...

The Consiliul Na tional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council ­ CNA), the Romanian regulatory body for electronic media, carried out three studies in the audiovisual field during 2004. Published in three volumes, the three studies dealt with issues including the electronic media landscape in Romania in the European context and various specific topics such as the portrayal of drug, alcohol and tobacco use in broadcasting. The project was financed by the European Union as a means of monitoring the adoption and application of the acquis communautaire in the electronic media field. The study...

On 12 November 2004, the Council for Electronic Media, constituted in April 2004 according to the Law on Electronic Media, issued a decision concerning the protection of minors and human dignity. The public prosecutor for children had filed a complaint before the Council against the broadcasting company RTL d.o.o. (Ltd.) due to an alleged breach of the provisions of the Law on Electronic Media. It had been claimed that RTL broke the provisions of Art. 15 para. 2, para. 3 of the Law on Electronic Media by broadcasting the reality show "Big Brother". According to the complaint there had been scenes...

Following a consultation initiated in July 2004, The UK Office of Communications (OFCOM) has announced amendments to Section 11 (8) of the Broadcast Television Advertising Standards Code. This sub-section deals with advertising of alcoholic beverages. Section 11 in general deals with "rules for a range of categories which can have implications for individuals or for society as a whole."The changes are justified as strengthening protection for under-18 year olds, i.e.," ...reducing the appeal of alcohol advertising to children and young teenagers." The new rules restrict adverts which connect alcohol...