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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...

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....