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On 15 November 2001, the Independent Television Commission published a revision to its Programme Code ("the ITC Programme Code"). The Section in question is 2.11 and it deals with the reporting of offences (including sexual offences) involving children (i.e., anyone under the age of 18). The Section now reads: "Reporting of sexual and other offences involving children Where children are or have been involved in police enquiries or court proceedings concerning sexual offences, special care needs to be taken to avoid the so called 'jigsaw effect'. This happens when several reports in different media...

The responsibilities of the Council for broadcasting and retransmission are determined by the zákon o vysielaní a retransmisii a o zmene zákona o telekomunikáciách (Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission of 2000). The administrative actions accompanying either the granting of licences for radio or television broadcasting or applied in cases where the violation of legal provisions covering content issues are considered must comply with the procedural rules set out by another provision - the zákon o správnom konaní (Act on Administrative Procedure No.71/1967 of Coll.). After nearly one year of applying...

The Chairman of the National Broadcasting Council has fined Polish licensee Polskie Media S.A. PLN 200.000 (EUR 54 880.22) for breaches of Art. 18 para. 5 of the Broadcasting Act as well as para. 1.2 and para. 2.2 of the Regulation of the National broadcasting Council (NBC) "concerning the special rules for transmitting broadcasts that may threaten the psychological, emotional or physical development of children and teenagers by radio and television programme services". In his Decision of 4 October 2001 the Chairman stated that TV4, a channel that broadcasts a reality show "Gladiators", an adaptation...

The company Télévision française 1 (TF1) signed a new agreement with the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) on 8 October. The agreement - which will come into force on 1 January 2002 and be valid for five years - has been reached at the end of much work and rounds of negotiations and follows on from the renewal of TF1's authorisation last April without calling for applications from any other parties. The new agreement is much more detailed, and has taken into account the wishes expressed by the CSA, particularly regarding ethical practice, and those...

After several meetings held in September and October, the Governments of the Bundesländer (Heads of the State and Senate Chancelleries and Minister-Presidents) agreed on the principles of a new regulatory framework for the media, mainly broadcasting, at their conference in Saarbrücken at the end of October. Whereas a new common standard for the protection of minors is to be laid down for all types of media and enforced by each individual Land (see IRIS 2001-9: 14), the reform of media supervision in general is also under discussion. To this end, the Land Minister-Presidents approved the idea of...