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At its meeting on 10 October 2003, the Television Council of the public service broadcaster ZDF revised ZDF's internal guidelines on the protection of minors. The guidelines firstly contain detailed provisions on the treatment of films that have been rated by a regional ratings authority or a voluntary self-regulatory body. They also ban the transmission of programmes with the same content as certain listed media; the ban also applies if the content has been significantly altered. The guidelines also include rules on exceptions made for specific reasons to the watershed provisions set out in Article...

On 8 October 2003, the EFTA Surveillance Authority delivered a decision pursuant to Article 2a(2) of the Television Without Frontiers Directive (Directive 89/552/EEC as amended by Directive 97/36/EC), confirming the compatibility with EEA law of measures taken by Norway that restrict retransmission of certain pornographic television programmes deemed to be detrimental to minors, in Norwegian digital cable TV networks. The prohibition concerns broadcasts of three different pay-TV channels based in Sweden. On 25 June 2003, Statens medievorvaltning (the Norwegian Mass Media Authority) decided to...

The Act on the classification of cinematographic films of 2002 provides for the rating of all cinematographic works prior to public screening in cinema halls or other public premises. It replaced the colonial law of 1935 (chapter 43) with the same title, providing for the constitution of a “board of censors”. The law establishes a rating body and classification system for (1) cinematographic works in analogue or digital format, and (2) for display/advertising material. Material publicly screened before classification is subject to seizure by the police. The board for the classification of cinematographic...

Under an agreement between pay-TV broadcaster Premiere and the Hamburgische Anstalt für neue Medien (Hamburg New Media Authority - HAM), the supervisory body, Premiere will introduce a new measure to protect minors from the pornographic films it shows after 1 August 2003. In view of the constant availability of films on demand (through the pay-per-view system), the regional media authorities had decided that additional precautions were necessary under the terms of Art. 9.2 of the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Protection of Minors in the Media - JMStV) (Art. 3.5 of the...

On 28 May the CSA delivered its opinion on the draft electronic communications bill (see IRIS 2003-5: 15 and IRIS 2003-6: 9), the purpose of which is to transpose the "telecoms package" into French law. The opinion is in eight sections which, on the whole, follow the order of the text, and cover the amendments made to the Post and Telecommunications Code, the scope of the CSA, authorisations for terrestrially broadcast television, the status of TDF (Télédiffusion de France), radio and television services other than those broadcast terrestrially, service distributors, measures to combat concentration,...