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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...

The European Platform of Regulatory Authorities (EPRA) held its 14th meeting on 27-28 September in Malta, at the invitation of the Broadcasting Authority of Malta. Over 90 representatives from 41 regulatory authorities responsible for broadcasting throughout Europe met to exchange information and experience on European and national regulatory issues in the field of radio and television. Among the various topics that were discussed during the meeting, two are particularly worth highlighting. The main topic on the agenda was the regulation of television advertising in light of the future review...

In talks held at the end of August between representatives of the Federation and the Länder, basic principles for a restructuring of German media regulations were discussed. As the digitisation of content and transmission networks in the various forms of media continues, the need to re-assign responsibilities at national and regional levels is being discussed. The main areas of concern are the protection of minors, the legal framework for and monitoring of new media services, competition and media concentration regulations, and data protection. According to the model which has been proposed and...