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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...

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...