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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...

The most important legal provision in Spanish Broadcasting Law as far as content regulation is concerned is Law 25/1994, on the implementation of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The Law 25/1994 was amended in June 1999 by Law 22/1999, which incorporated into Spanish Law the new "Television Without Frontiers" Directive (EC Directive 97/36/EC). Now, Spanish Law 25/1994 (as amended by Law 22/1999; see IRIS 1999-7: 10) has been developed by a Regulation approved by the Government. This Regulation, which only applies to national broadcasters, deals with several matters: - The right of...

The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic submitted to the Government of the Czech Republic a proposal for a new Broadcasting Act (Zákon o provozování rozhlasového a telvizního vysílání a prevzatého vysílání). The proposal is intended to implement the revised «Television without Frontiers» Directive and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (as amended by the Protocol of 1998) into Czech Law. In its introductory provisions the Act contains some definitions, many of which correspond to the definitions of the Directive. In addition, the Act sets out criteria to determine in which...