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Last summer, when he was being questioned the day after the murder of a teenager that was supposedly inspired by an American horror film, the Minister for Culture and Communication, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, entrusted the philosopher Blandine Kriegel with a mission on "the impact of television violence on the public and on young people". Her report was submitted formally to the Minister on 14 November. The report proposes in particular a reinforcement of the absolute nature of the ban on broadcasting violent images between 6.30 am and 10 pm and the separation of subscription to pornographic shows...

On 11 November 2002, the Council of the European Union approved a draft Resolution on Interactive Media Content in Europe. The draft Resolution will be formally adopted, without further discussion, at the next Council meeting. The promotion of interactive media content forms part of the Council's more general objectives, such as the establishment of the European Union as a dynamic knowledge-based economy and the development of cultural and creative industries within the European Union. The Council emphasises the importance of ensuring quality in interactive media content by combining artistic...

On 18 October 2002 the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (Hungarian National Radio and Television Commission- ORTT) published a communication to the broadcasters on guidelines concerning protection of minors. The publication of the communication was a consequence of the adoption of Act No. XX of 2002 amending Act No I of 1996 on Radio and Television Services (Broadcasting Act, see IRIS 2002-8: 8). By this amendment the system protecting minors had been fundamentally changed, and a new set of much more detailed provisions replaced the former corresponding rules. According to the provisions recently...

Decision no.112 of the Consiliul Na tional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) of 8 October 2002 on the advertising of distilled alcoholic drinks will replace the current regulations on this subject in Romania from 1 January 2003. The CNA explained that the new rules were necessary because of the increasing levels of alcohol consumption among young people, which was having a negative impact on society in general and on minors in particular. For that reason, and based on the provisions of the new Audiovisual Act (Legea audiovizualului No. 504/2002), the CNA has decided to prohibit...

As a result of Decision no.78, adopted by the Consiliul Na tional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) on 8 August 2002, new warning symbols will be introduced for films and TV programmes in Romania from this autumn onwards. The new CNA regulations state that, in order to protect minors, TV operators should separate these productions into the following five categories and label them with the appropriate warning symbol: 1) Productions whose content is generally acceptable and which therefore need no particular warning symbol; 2) Productions which may only be watched by children...