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A year ago, as required by Article 26 of the Directive itself, the Commission began preparing for a review of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive 89/552/EEC as amended by Directive 97/36/EC, by publishing a call for tender for various studies relating to different parts of the text. Reports on the quota system (Art. 4-6, see infra) and on the impact of TV advertising and teleshopping on minors were also commissioned. According to the Education and Culture Commissioner, the review of the Directive will focus particularly on a liberalisation of the provisions on advertising, sponsorship...

In the cases of B. and P. v. the United Kingdom, the applicants complained that they had been barred from divulging information about the proceedings on custody rights over their children. The judge dealing with the case had ordered that no documents used in the proceedings should be disclosed outside the court. B. had also been warned by the judge that any publication of information obtained in the context of the proceedings would amount to contempt of court. As the case was not heard in public and the judgments were not publicly pronounced, B. and P. complained in Strasbourg that these restricting...

The proposal for an Act designed to guarantee public access to information has been approved by the new Cabinet and media representatives. A corresponding bill, drafted in collaboration with opposition party representatives by the new Ministry for Public Information, which was created in early 2001, was submitted to Parliament. The Bill was examined and approved by Parliament in mid-April and will now be debated by the Senate over the next few weeks. The Act on free access to information of public interest is designed to regulate how every citizen should enjoy equal access to such information....

During the spring and summer of 2000 the Swedish national terrestrial channel TV4 broadcast more than ten programmes from the very popular children's series "Pokémon". When an episode was finished - and the message "to be continued" had been shown - the viewers were requested to keep their seats: "Don't leave yet. Now follows the Pokémon-rap". In this rap a selection of characters from the series are presented and the message "Gotta catch' em all" is repeated several times. When the rap is finished the programme ends with a billboard and the "Pokémon song". The Swedish Broadcasting Commission...

In order to promote discussion on legal aspects relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works, on 11 April 2001 the European Commission published a working paper following on from its Communication on the principles and guidelines for the Community's audiovisual policy in the digital age (COM (1999) 657 final, 14 December 1999, see IRIS 2001-1: 5 and IRIS 2000-8: 4). In the working paper, the Commission mainly focuses on the growth of the audiovisual sector, in particular cinema, and the development of a competitive European film industry. It presents various thoughts and questions on...