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On 7 May 1996, the European Commission amended the proposal for a revision of the 1989 "Television without Frontiers" Directive which it presented to the European Parliament and the Council on 31 May 1995. The amendments were made on the basis of the first reading in the European Parliament which resulted in a Resolution on 14 February 1996 ( see: IRIS 1996-3: 6). Parliament approved the Commission's proposals subject to a number of amendments it had made. The amended proposal also takes into account the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee of 13 September 1995 (CES 972/95) and the discussions...

On 02.05.1996 the Minister of Training, Science, Research and Technology, Jürgen Rüttgers, presented the foundations for the legislation on information and communication services. According to these, the Act is to include broader forms of interactive individual communication, various forms of switching between individual and mass communication, and electronic press services. It is intended to lay down outline conditions for the new information and communications technologies, thereby creating optimum conditions for standardised development. Regulations to liberalise the various media markets,...

Views expressed at BBC Governors' Seminar on taste and decency will be incorporated into a revised version of the Corporation's guidelines for programme makers. The Guidelines' section on taste and decency will see a strong emphasis placed on the importance of the watershed; that is the 9 o'clock boundary between programmes suitable for children to watch and those which are not. It will also reflect concerns about the use of bad language, and the portrayal of sex and violence. The concept of 'respect' as a key issue in determining where the boundaries should lie in issues of taste, sex and language...

On 8 May 1996 the European Commission adopted its long awaited Green Paper on Commercial Communications in the Internal Market. It was already announced in November 1992. The Green Paper is based on a comprehensive review of the relevant legislation in each Member State of the European Union, a full market analysis and surveys undertaken by the Commission. The detailed results of these reviews are included in an associated Working Document. The Green Paper, although targeting all possible forms of commercial communication, is especially relevant to the communication of commercial information by...

On 29 February 1996, top U.S. television network executives met with President Bill Clinton at the White House for two hours and afterwards announced that they had agreed to implement a voluntary ratings system that would give parents greater control of programming watched by their children. The clear impetus to the agreement was the passage three weeks earlier of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("1996 Act"see: IRIS 1996-3: 7-10). One provision of the 1996 Act requires all new television sets manufactured or sold in the U.S. after 1998 to be equipped with a new technology referred to as the...