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In IRIS 1996-10: 9 we reported on the Decision by the European Parliament on the EU Council's common position concerning the amendment of the 'Television without Frontiers' Directive. We announced that, following the amendments adopted by the European Parliament, there would be a conciliation procedure. Such a procedure is an attempt to bring Parliament and the Council on one line, which is essential since the revision of tis directive is subjet to a co-decision procedure of the Council and the European Parliament. In the Second Reading phase which took place in November 1996, Parliament could...

In a Resolution adopted on 28 November 1996, the Council of the European Union invites the Member States to introduce a number of measures in regard to illegal and harmful content on the internet. The measures called for concern encouragement and facilitating of systems of self-regulation between representative organisations of service providers and internet users, the drafting of efficient codes of conduct, and possibly, on-line mechanisms which can directly be accessed by the public, signalling illegal and harmful content. In addition, the Council invites the Member States to encourage that...

A computer specialist at the University of Birmingham used the computer to which he had access in the course of his employment to store data which permitted him to display indecent pictures of children on the screen and make prints thereof. The question before the court was whether the images so stored constituted `photographs' under Section 1 of the Children Act 1978 and whether the distribution of the images was an offence under the 1959 and 1964 Obscene Publications Act. Generally, the question was: if these Acts were passed at a time that Parliament could not have envisaged the technical capabilities...

On 12 November 1996, on the basis of a Recommendation by the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media, Parliament discussed the common position established by the Council of the European Union ( see IRIS 1996-9: 8  and IRIS 1996-6: 7) with a view to the adoption of a Directive amending the present `Television without Frontiers' Directive. The Culture Committee had proposed some radical amendments to the Council's common position. Notably it proposed that the obligation for EU Member States to ensure `where practicable', that broadcasters reserve for European works a majority proportion...

On 16 October 1996, the European Commission issue two new texts on further development of the information society: a Communication on illegal and harmful content on the Internet and a Green Paper on the protection of minors and human dignity in audio-visual and information services. The two texts are complementary, both in time-scale and content. While the Communication covers short-term measures which concern the specific problems of the Internet, and also go beyond the protection of minors and human dignity, the Green Paper focuses specifically on those two issues. Unlike the Communication,...