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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...

The Romanian regulatory body for electronic media, the Consiliul Na,tional al Audiovizualului (CNA), has amended the regulations on advertising, sponsorship and teleshopping (CNA decision no. 123/2003, published in the Romanian Official Gazette no. 479 of 4 July 2003) by decision no. 254 of 5 July 2004 (Decizia CNA privind publicitatea, sponsorizarea ,si teleshoppingul). The aim of the changes is to uphold the principles of free competition, the protection of life, health, consumer interests and the environment, and to bring Romanian legislation into line with EC law. Advertising for food, for...

On 3 September 2004, the Office of the Irish Film Censor (see IRIS 2004-3: 10) published the results of a survey of the views of parents regarding film classification. The main concerns of parents in regard to the content of the films, videos and DVDs that their children watched were ­ in descending order of concern: drug taking, violence, racial references, underage drinking of alcohol, sexual activity/dialogue, anti-social behaviour, swearing and strong language, horror and scary scenes, nudity, drinking of alcohol, and cigarette smoking. The survey also found that while parents were generally...

For the first time since the co-regulatory system for the protection of youth in the media was established in Germany (see IRIS 2002-9: 15), the state regulator, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for Protection of Youth in the Media - KJM), has overturned a decision of the co-regulatory body, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (FSF). The FSF had examined various episodes of the MTV cosmetic surgery show " I want a famous face " before they were broadcast and approved them for daytime transmission. Under the provisions of the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement...