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In its Opinion No. 226 of 24 April 2001, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed its support for the latest version of a draft Convention on Cyber-crime. The Draft Convention was prepared by a Committee of Experts, which formally concluded its work with the completion of Draft No. 25 of the Convention in December 2000. The Draft Convention requires States Parties to adopt certain substantive criminal offences, i.e. crimes against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data, systems and communications (Articles 2-5); crimes involving the use of a computer...

On 14 March 2001, the largest internet content providers of Hungary have founded their professional organisation, the Magyarországi Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete (Hungarian Content Providers' Association - MTE). The main objective of the MTE is to fulfil the self-regulatory role concerning internet content. At the time of its foundation, the MTE has also approved an Tartalomszolgáltatási Kódex (Internet content code). The code is based on the distinction between edited content, published by the content provider; paid content, that means content of commercial nature such as advertising; and user-generated...

In a judgment of 17 November 2000, the Hasselt Criminal Court convicted a person who was found in possession of pictures and software containing images of sexual behaviour of a pornographic character featuring minors aged under 16. He was convicted under Article 383bis of the Criminal Code. Two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) whose infrastructure and services had been used to distribute and receive the illegal content on the Internet were not convicted. The Court referred to the basic rules of the Belgian Collaboration Protocol to Help Stamp Out Illegal Acts on the Internet (see IRIS 1999-7:...

In a judgment of 4 October 2000, the Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg (Hamburg Administrative Court) dismissed a complaint by Premiere Medien GmbH & Co. KG (appellant). The appellant had challenged a decision by the defendant, the Hamburgische Anstalt für neue Medien (Hamburg New Media Authority - HAM), in which it had found the appellant to have breached the ban on pornography by broadcasting five films. The appellant claimed in the proceedings that the HAM's decision had been unlawful, in particular on the grounds that it had based its assessment of the films concerned on a false definition of pornography....

Following the adoption of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2000, several pieces of subsidiary legislation have been published and since then have come into force. The 2000 legislative package comes in the light of Malta's efforts to implement the Council of Europe's Transfrontier Television Convention (signed 1991 and ratified in 1993) and EC Directives 89/552/EEC and 97/36/EC. In 2000 Malta tacitly ratified the Protocol amending the convention on Transfrontier Television. A few points have been selected to highlight the legislative background of these recent legislative changes: The Broadcasting...