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At the beginning of June the Broadcasting Standards Commission published a revised Code of Guidance on Taste and Decency. Production of a code on standards of taste and decency is a statutory requirement placed upon the Commission by Parliament under sections 107 and 108 of the Broadcasting Act 1996. The first code on standards was published by the former Broadcasting Standards Council in 1989. The Commission has now re-written its code on taste and decency because it believes some current warnings are not straightforward enough. The code points out that programmes can cause particular offence...

Under the Advertising Act, which came into force on 1 September last year, the advertising of alcohol and tobacco products, previously prohibited, is now legal for the first time - although the media had widely ignored the ban, even before the new act took effect. In its introductory section, the act defines "advertising" (Section 2 g); and goes on to prohibit advertising which offends against personal honour, incites violence or conduct harmful to the environment, endangers public safety or exploits fear (Section 4). Advertising aimed at minors must not interfere with their physical, moral or...

The work on the Bill "State protection of moral health and on stronger control over the use of products of sexual character" started in 1995, when the initial text in the Legislative assembly of Omsk region was developed. On 16 January 1998, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted the Bill in the second reading (on the first reading, see IRIS 1997-4: 10). 226 Deputes supported the Bill, 104 Deputes voted against it and 113 abstained. Now the Bill is being prepared for the third reading. If the Bill is adopted in the third reading by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council...

A decree dated 6 May 1998 amends the descriptions of duties and terms of reference of the public-service television channels France 2 and France 3, in an attempt to close the gap between the legal systems governing private channels and public-service channels, thereby making supervision by the regulatory body, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) easier. The decree of 6 May covers firstly the relations between France 2 and France 3 and audiovisual producers. In 1997 these producers - through their main professional union, the audiovisual production union ( USPA - Union Syndicale de la...

On 28 May 1998 the Council of the European Union adopted a Recommendation "on the development of the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and information services industry by promoting national frameworks aimed at achieving a comparable and effective level of protection of minors and human dignity". The Recommendation was adopted after a relatively long institutional procedure (see IRIS 1996-10: 4 and IRIS 1997-8: 9). On 13 May the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution containing the Parliament's opinion on the proposal, while on 29 April the European Economic and Social Committee...