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The meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe of 30 October 1997 saw the adoption of three media-related recommendations. The first resolution is against gratuitous violence, in other words "the dissemination of messages, words and images, the violent content or presentation of which is given a prominence which is not justified in the context". The field of application is very wide-ranging as it concerns the whole of the electronic media field, including radio and television programmes, video upon request, Internet, interactive television and other products such as video games...

In a decision on 18 September 1997 the board of the Hamburg regional media authority (Hamburgische Landesmedienanstalt - HAM) prohibited the pay-TV broadcaster Premiere from broadcasting five allegedly pornographic films on the grounds of infringement of Section 3, paragraph 1, point 4 of the Agreement between the federal States on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RFStV). In doing so, the HAM feels it has achieved its aim to stop Premiere broadcasting any more films which contradict the ban on pornography. The company broadcast a number of films of this type in January and February 1997....

On 15 July 1997, the European Commission published on Internet a report on the results of the consultations on the Green Paper on `The protection of minors and human dignity in audio-visual and information services' of 16 October 1996 (see IRIS 1996-10: 4). Having analysed the findings, the Commission suggests that the problems raised in the Green Paper can best be solved by co-ordinating the efforts made by individual states to protect minors and human dignity. It also suggests various ways of stepping up co-operation and the exchange of information and ideas at European and international level....

These three joined cases are all concerned with television advertising broadcasts by TV3 (which is based in England) via satellite to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, but can also be received (in the first case) in Sweden on home channel TV 4. The image is always the same, the acoustic signals are in the language of the country concerned. The first case concerns a commercial for a children's magazine about dinosaurs, which is printed in Italy and distributed in Sweden, by a Swedish subsidiary (De Agostini) of an Italian business group. The commercial has been broadcast without raising any problems...

On 9 July the "Association for Voluntary Self-Regulation of Multimedia service providers" (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter e.V. - FSM) was set up in Bonn. The FSM is to represent organisations and companies in the multimedia sector in their purpose to protect the valid interests of users and the public, particularly as regards racial discrimination and oppression, and to reinforce the protection of young people on a self-responsible basis. Both the new federal "Multimedia Act" and the "Multimedia Agreement" between the Länder (Information and Communications Services Act...