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The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Law on Broadcasting at a session held on 18 July 2002. The Law was promulgated and published on 19 July and came into force on 27 of the same month after a lengthy procedure (IRIS 2001-3: 13 und IRIS 2001-6: 10). Serbian Law on Broadcasting (SLB) has nine chapters: Basic Provisions, Broadcasting Agency of the Republic, Broadcasting License, General Programming Standards, Public Service Broadcasting, Prevention of Illicit Media Concentration, Advertising and Sponsorship, Penal Provisions and Transitory and Final Provisions. The most detailed...

Following a preparatory process lasting nearly four years, the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary has approved the Bill on the Amendment of Act No. I of 1996 on Radio and Television Services ("Broadcasting Act"). The amendment concerns issues aimed at achieving full harmonisation of the Hungarian Broadcasting Act with the relevant EU legislation and with the European Convention on Transfrontier Television as recently amended by a protocol. The amendment has been enacted following the fourth submission of the Bill, which according to the provisions of the Constitution of Hungary required a two-thirds...

By virtue of Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, as amended, "the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) shall ensure the protection of children and young people and respect for human dignity in the programmes made available to the public by audiovisual communication services". In doing so, "it shall ensure that programmes likely to be harmful to the physical, mental or moral development of minors shall not be made available to the public by a sound or television broadcasting service, except where there is assurance, by the choice of the time the programme...

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...