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In a ruling published at the end of June 2002, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court - VG Berlin) gave its opinion on, inter alia, the expertise and pluralist structure of the Gemeinsame Stelle Jugendschutz und Programm der Landesmedienanstalten (Joint Body for Youth Protection and Programmes of the Regional Media Authorities - GSJP), the Medienrat (Media Council) of the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority - MABB) and the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (Voluntary Self-Regulatory Authority for Television - FSF). The case concerned an application...

Following its consideration of the European Commission Communication on certain legal aspects relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works of September 2001 (see IRIS 2001-9: 6), the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (hereinafter "the Committee") of the European Parliament has proposed a Motion for a Resolution. The proposed Resolution is wide-ranging in scope. It opens with a statement of its support for the Commission's Communication and its insistence on strict adherence to the proposed time-line. Pursuant to the Communication and the European Parliament...

A study on the development of new advertising techniques and their regulatory implications was recently submitted to the European Commission. Prepared by Carat Crystal and Bird and Bird, the study was commissioned as part of the ongoing review of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. In the report, a panorama of existing advertising techniques and their regulation is followed by a similar analysis of emerging advertising techniques. In the case of the latter, particular emphasis is placed on interactive, split-screen and virtual advertising. Devising a new regulatory framework or modifying...

In March 2002 the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission of 2000) was amended by zákon c. 206/2002 (Act No. 206/2002), which came into force on 8 May 2002. The amendments mainly concern the legal status of the Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission as now being entitled to impose fines for breaches of provisions concerning programmes and commercials without a warning only in defined cases: "The Council can impose a fine without prior warning, if the obligation pursuant to Art. 16 letter c) (Breach of the rules covering elections), Art. 19 (Protection of human...

On 13 March 2002, the Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council imposed a fine of PLN 300,000 (over USD 73,000) on the private television station TVN for showing violent and erotic scenes during protected time (the blocks were transmitted between 11.30h - 13.15h and 20.00h - 20.45h) on its „Big Brother - Battle" program. Article 18 para. 5 of the Broadcasting Act of 29 December 1992 (as amended) states that programmes or other broadcasts which may threaten the physical, mental or moral development of minors, may not be transmitted between 6:00h and 23:00h. In order to implement this rule,...