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At its meeting on 19 and 20 May 2003, the Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (Congress of Land Media Authority Directors - DLM) decided that the Landesmedienanstalten (Land Media Authorities) and the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for Youth Protection in the Media - KJM), which was set up in April this year, should act to combat the increasing number and form of telephone sex advertisements and sex clips on television. The decision was taken on the basis of the survey of "telephone sex advertisements and sex clips" carried out by the Gemeinsame Stelle Jugendschutz, Programm,...

At its meeting on 23 May 2003, the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) gave its opinion on the planned revision of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive (Council Directive 97/36/EC amending Directive 89/552/EEC). The Bundesrat welcomed the efforts already made by the European Commission to initiate a debate on the potential need for the regulatory framework to be adapted and, as part of the further development of the Directive, to take into account all specific instruments of European audio-visual policy and their interaction with other policy areas. This strategy should help to pursue...

On 17 April the long-awaited new decree on broadcasting came into force in the French-speaking Community of Belgium, replacing the old decree on the audio-visual sector dating back to 17 July 1987 and the decree of 24 July 1997 on the audio-visual regulatory body (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel ­ CSA) and private radio broadcasting services in the French-speaking Community (see IRIS 1997-8: 14). The new decree encompasses all the legislation on the audio-visual sector in the French-speaking Community with the exception of the public-sector service (RTBF), which remains governed by the decree...

The Safer Internet Action Plan will continue for another two years. Both the European Parliament and the Council have recently approved the extension of the original plan, which covered the period 1999-2002. The European Commission proposed the two-year extension, for 2003-2004, in March 2002 (see IRIS 2002-4: 4). On 26 May 2003, the Council of the European Union adopted the extended Action Plan with a few amendments made by the Parliament in the first reading on 11 March 2003. The Safer Internet Action Plan plays a key role in the European Union's efforts to deal with illegal and harmful content...

On 28 May 2003, the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers adopted a Declaration on freedom of communication on the Internet. The aim of the Declaration is to reaffirm the importance of freedom of expression and free circulation of information on the Internet. As stated in the preamble, the Committee of Ministers is concerned about attempts to limit public access to communication on the Internet for political reasons or other motives contrary to democratic principles. The Declaration states that content on the Internet should not be subjected to restrictions that go further than those applied...