Search results : 1094

Early in February, the Assembly of Land Councils of Private Broadcasters (Landeszentrale für private Rundfunkveranstalter - LPR) in Rheinland-Pfalz brought a formal complaint against the private television channel SAT1. It claimed that an item dealing with a night club, included in a programme shown by SAT1 between 6pm and 6.30pm, had broken the rules on protection of minors. The report featured a woman on display, as a sex object, to large numbers of men at the same time. Under the regulations on protection of minors contained in Article 3 (2) of the Agreement between the Federal States on Broadcasting,...

The Agreement between the Federal States on Broadcasting which regulates public and private broadcasting concerns in Germany (originally adopted on 31 August 1991 and last amended by the third revised version of 26 August 1996/11 September 1996 - see IRIS 1996-8: 12) is to be up-dated. A draft version of a fourth Agreement between the Federal States to amend their existing Agreements on Broadcasting was submitted for discussion by the Länder on 16 January 1998. In addition to bringing in new regulations on certain forms of advertising, media services and data protection, the new version is primarily...

In France, the two main public-service channels are France 2 and France 3. Their terms of reference are set out in decrees dated 16 September 1994. The rapid evolution of the audio-visual scene has led the Government to consider amendments to these texts, which were submitted to the French media authority, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel - CSA); it gave its opinion on 16 December 1997. For the protection of children and young people, the CSA feels it necessary to require the public-sector channels - as well as the private channels - to include a symbol on the screen when broadcasting certain...

As the Internet is used as the medium for a certain number of potentially illegal and detrimental sites and can also be used to distribute activities of a criminal nature, the European Commission adopted, on 26 November 1997, a proposal for an action plan on promoting safe use of the Internet. The proposal came in the form of a communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. The plan covers both illegal and detrimental content, which it examines both with regard to their approach and to the ways and means of controlling...

Taking the Commission Green Paper as a basis, the European Parliament, in its October session, adopted a resolution on the protection of minors and human dignity. Following the example of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, it also stressed its attachment to the right to freely receive or transmit information on any kind of media but considers that its application should not as a result adversely affect dignity or private life or the development of minors. The Parliament notes that national solutions do not provide satisfactory answers to the legal problems posed by the globalisation...