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Ireland's national public service broadcaster, RTÉ, has just introduced a system that will help television viewers to decide whether or not its programmes are suitable for children and teenagers. Pre-recorded programmes shown on RTÉ's two television stations now show a small icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen for twenty seconds at the beginning of the programmes. There are five classifications: General Audience (GA), Children (Ch), Young Adult (YA), Parental Supervision (PS), and Mature Audience (MA). Programmes classified as "Young Adult" are aimed at teenagers and may deal with...

On 20 December 2001, the heads of the German Bundesländer agreed to and signed the proposed amendments contained in the 6th Agreement Amending the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting - RStV). Once they have been adopted by the parliaments of the Länder, the revised versions of the RStV, the Rundfunkfinanzierungs-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Funding of Broadcasting - RFinStV) and the Mediendienste-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Media Services - MDStV) should enter into force on 1 July 2002. The provisions on media concentration contained in the RStV...

Danish legislation on the information and communication media has to be adapted to the development of new technology by which the separate media shall be able to converge into multifunctional entities. In preparation for the arrival of the future information society a Committee established by the former Minister for Culture, Elsebeth Gerner-Nielsen, issued a report on convergence in the networked society (Konvergens i netværkssamfundet) on 7 June 2001. The report - examining the motives, powers and scenarios of future development - evaluates in Chapter 6 the sectoral legislation in force and its...

In early December 2001, the Romanian supervisory authority for the electronic media, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (CNA), criticised a mobile telephone advertisement and, in a communiqué, condemned its makers for disparaging the image of Father Christmas. The TV commercial, which was produced in Romania by a mobile phone company publicising a special offer for the month of December, depicted three Father Christmases who, as "kung fu experts", fought with each other for the chance to hang their own mobile phone on the Christmas tree. After a few blows were traded, the "strongest" of...

In August 2001, the Malta Broadcasting Authority published Guidelines on the Broadcasting Coverage of Tragic Events. The guidelines were prepared by the Advisory Committee on Quality and Ethics in Broadcasting and are intended as guidelines for television and radio broadcasters in the reporting of tragedies. In the introductory section it is pointed out that the coverage given by the various television stations in Malta to tragedies that occurred during the summer of 2000 sparked the Broadcasting Authority's initiative to publish a set of guidelines. Similar documents in other countries were consulted,...