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At its meeting on 23 November 2004, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for Youth Media Protection - KJM) approved the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e.V. (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers - FSM) as a voluntary self-monitoring body in the telemedia field, in the sense of the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrages (Inter-State Agreement on Youth Media Protection - JMStV). According to Article 19.3 JMStV, voluntary self-monitoring bodies may be approved by the KJM, subject to certain conditions. Members of the FSM now have the opportunity...

On 8 November 2004, the Moniteur belge (Belgian official gazette) published the new order of the Government of the French-speaking Community of 1 July 2004 on protecting minors from television programmes likely to be damaging to their physical, mental or moral development. From 1 January 2005, this order will replace the previous order of 12 October 2000, which defines the identification markings currently used for television programmes (see IRIS 2001-2: 5). A new system of markings will therefore be used by television broadcasters in the French-speaking Community. As it had done through previous...

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...