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In mid-January the Consiliul National al Audiovizualu, lui (National Audiovisual Council ­ CNA) imposed fines on two television broadcasters for breaches of regulations designed to protect minors. The two private broadcasters, Antena 1 and Pro TV, had both broadcast video footage in their TV magazine programmes of a young person committing suicide. In addition, Antena 1 had broadcast a documentary on child pornography on the Internet including only slightly concealed scenes from one of the allegedly pornographic films involving minors. The CNA held that in view of their potentially harmful effect,...

On 19 November 2003, the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Innovation and Technology and the main associations of Internet service providers signed a new self-regulatory Code of Conduct aimed at protecting children from potentially damaging use of, and from unsuitable content on, the Internet. On the basis of the self-prescribed set of rules, Internet providers will not only implement and promote measures in order to provide differentiated navigation services (which restrict or exclude access to certain content), but they will also provide content classification and will abstain from...

On 27 January 2004 the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities (DLM) dealt with questions concerning the acceptability of a so-called survival show (" Ich bin ein Star ­ Holt mich hier raus! " "I'm a Celebrity ­ Get Me Out of Here!"), in which "celebrities" were put in a camp in the jungle and required to perform certain unpleasant tasks. Viewers voted to decide who was to leave the camp and be eliminated from the competition. Immediately broadcasting of the show started, the Regional Media Authorities had asked the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection...

On 12 December 2003 the European Commission adopted its second evaluation report on the application of the Council Recommendation on the protection of minors and human dignity of 24 September 1998 (see IRIS 1998-10: 5). The Recommendation calls for the establishment, through co-operation between all the parties concerned (industry, public authorities, consumers) of national self-regulatory frameworks aimed at enhancing the protection of minors and human dignity in the broadcasting and Internet sectors, as a supplement to the relevant regulatory frameworks. The first evaluation report, adopted...

On 13 October, the Court of Appeal in Versailles delivered a decision on application of Article 22724 of the Criminal Code. Under this article, the fact of either making, carrying or broadcasting by any means and on any support a message of a violent or pornographic nature or such as to seriously infringe human dignity, or commercialising such a message, is punishable by a three year prison sentence and a fine of 75 000 euros if the message is likely to be seen or noticed by a minor. In this instance, a case was brought against a teacher of French for having shown to a class in the fourth year...