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On 31 May 1995, the European Commission put forward a proposal to amend Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of broadcasting activities. In its comments on the aforementioned amendment the European Radio and Television Union stressed the following points : - a regulatory framework is necessary for the field of application of the directive - the quota of independent productions should not be increased. Measures taken in favour of independent producers should not work...

The Norwegian Government has recently launched an action plan against violence shown in the media. The plan has a dual approach, focussing on the one hand on stricter regulations and on the other hand on information and education. Four Conferences on the issue took place in Oslo, Kristianstad, Tromsö and Trondheim in the beginning of May. Two others will take place at the end of September in Stavanger and Bergen. The action plan is a joint initiative of the Ministries of Culture and the Ministry of Justice, assisted by the Ministry of Children and Families and the Ministry of Education. The State...

The House of Lord's Select Committee on the European Communities has published its Report which considers two Community proposals: COM (94) 96 (on strategy options to strengthen the European programme industry in the context of the audio-visual policy of the EC) and COM (94) 353 final (the follow-up to the consultation process relating to the Green Paper on "Pluralism and media concentration in the Internal Market - an assessment of the need for Community action"; see IRIS 1995-1: 7 and IRIS 1995-2: 5). The Committee produced twenty-eight recommendations on the basis of oral and written evidence...

The imminent onset of video-on-demand, pay-per-view and near-video-on-demand services has caused the Independent Television Commission to reconsider its policy as regards the viewing of unsuitable material by children. The existing approach is spelt out in the Family Viewing Policy within the ITC Programme Code and largely relies on scheduling controls. The review recognises that the newer services are watched as a result of an individual decision to pay to watch. This implemented by technical means, which restrict access to someone properly authorised, and in possession of a billing PIN number....

Pursuant to its duty under the Broadcasting Act 1990 (section 153), the Broadcasting Standards Council published its third annual report on television content during 1994. The report, based on studies of violence, sexual activity and bad language, deals with both the proportion and frequency of incidents and the response of viewers. The research is based on sample periods of primetime television. The content analysis covered some 450 hours of satellite and terrestrial television programmes from BBC1, BBC2, ITV, C4, Sky One, the Movie Channel, Sky Movies and Sky Movies Gold over two one week periods....