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The Forum on Broadcasting, established by the Government in March 2002 (see IRIS 2002-7: 13), reported in August. Many individuals and organisations, including Radio Telefís Éireann (the national public service broadcaster, RTÉ), the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (ODTR), made written submissions to the Forum. The ODTR set out the current position regarding broadcasting services in Ireland and the future under the new EC Framework Directives. The BCI set out all the relevant statutory provisions and assessed various aspects...

On 15 October, the Chairman of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) renewed his call for the public authorities (see IRIS 2002-8: 7) to incorporate Article 22 of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive word-for-word in the Audiovisual Communications Act, thereby formally prohibiting the broadcasting of pornographic programmes on French television. According to Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the CSA is required to ensure that no programme likely to be seriously damaging to the normal physical, mental or moral development of minors is made...

In a judgment of 19 September 2002, the Bayerisches Verwaltungsgericht München (Bavarian Administrative Court, Munich - VG München) ruled on the admissibility of pornographic television broadcasts. It referred to the rules of interpretation laid down in the judgment issued by the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court - BVerwG) on 20 February 2002 (see IRIS 2002-3: 7), which established an important principle. The case concerned the lawfulness of a ban imposed by the relevant supervisory authority, the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian Office for New Media - BLM),...

Last July, Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (Belgian public-sector radio and television station broadcasting to the French-speaking CommunityRTBF) was ordered by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to read out a statement, as the regulatory authority had found that the public-sector broadcasting channel had broadcast at 5.50 pm a programme called "Mortelle perversion", an episode in the German police series "Im Namen des Gesetzes" ("En quête de preuves" in French) with the "blue ring on a white circle" marker (parental agreement preferable)...

Youth protection reforms in Germany (see IRIS 2002-6: 13) are progressing. On 21 June 2002, the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) followed the Bundestag (lower house) in approving the new Jugendschutzgesetz (Youth Protection Act). The Act will enter into force together with the Staatsvertrag über den Schutz der Menschenwürde und den Jugendschutz in Rundfunk und Telemedien - Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (InterState Agreement on the protection of human dignity and minors in broadcasting and telemedia - JMStV), for which the Länder are responsible. One of the aims of these reforms is to create...