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On 17 December 1999, the Council of the European Union made public its conclusions regarding the protection of minors in the framework of the developments in the digital audiovisual services. The Council recognises the need to adapt and complement current systems for protecting minors from harmful audiovisual content. The development of new technical means for parental control must not reduce the responsibilities of the various categories of operators, such as broadcasters and providers. Member States are called on to: - keep the effectiveness of current systems for protecting minors under review...

The European Commission recently adopted a Communication on the planned future strategy for the audiovisual sector. The document sets out the main issues and principles of an audiovisual policy to cover the next five years, taking into account the technical progress and rapid growth of the audiovisual sector. The Communication makes it clear that the Commission does not intend to create a totally new regulatory framework for audiovisual services in the digital age. Rather, it hopes to build on existing measures such as the "Television without Frontiers" Directive and the Council Recommendation...

Based on the provisions of the Treaty on European Union concerning police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, the Republic of Austria recently proposed an initiative to combat child pornography on the Internet. The text, presented to the Council of the European Union for adoption as a Decision, follows numerous existing documents on this subject and contains various measures which are to be implemented by the Member States on 31 December 2000 at the latest. Firstly, Internet users are to be encouraged to inform law enforcement authorities about any suspected distribution of child pornography...

The Versammlung der Landeszentrale für private Rundfunkveranstalter Rheinland-Pfalz (the Rhine-Palatinate Assembly of private broadcasting organisations - LPR) objected to two TV films shown by SAT 1 which, in view of their linkage of sex and violence, were such as to endanger children and young people. The SAT 1 production shown on 23 February 1999 at 8.15 p.m. entitled „The price of innocence" opened with a bondage and torture scene linking sex and violence. Viewers had the sadistic murder of a young girl presented acoustically though not visually. In the LPR`s view, the scene was very long drawn...

Further to the «Television without Frontiers» Directive a bill was introduced on 11 October 1999 to modify the Media Act and the Dutch Penal Code (PC), as well as to revoke the Act on Film Showings. The objective of this bill is to better protect young people against audio-visual images which are harmful for them. The starting-point of the proposal is self-regulation. Each audio-visual product will be classified on account of the possible harmfulness of exhibition to the young, under the responsibility of the area of business which puts the products in question on the market. The proposal adopts...