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On 3 August 1995 the Greek Parliament has adopted a law 'on the legal status of private TV and local radio, regulation of matters related to the electronic (i.e. radio and TV) market, as well as other arrangements'. The law is divided into four parts; Chapter A deals with private TV, Chapter B with local radio, Chapter C concerns matters related to the electronic market (radio and TV) and the press. The final Chapter, D, regulates matters related to the Ministry of Press and Mass Media, the legal entities under its supervision and to the National Broadcasting Council. The provisions concerning...

On 14 June 1995, the US Senate passed the Communications Decency Act of 1995 - also known as the Exon Bill for short, after its author - by 84 votes to 16. The Bill prohibits the use of computerised communication techniques, such as E-mail and online services, to disseminate "indecent" material, and introduces prison sentences and fines for persons who give under-age children access to such material. If the Bill passes the House of Representatives and is not vetoed by the President, communication via Internet in the USA will be appreciably restricted. It is true, in objective terms, that the Bill...

Over the last few months the regional media bodies have expressed their doubts over the efficiency of work carried out by the voluntary Television Review Body. This led to a preliminary meeting between the regional media bodies' Youth Protection And Programme Planning Working Party and representatives of the review body in Berlin on 7 June 1995. As was reported in IRIS 1995-3:7 and IRIS 1995-5:9, the review body carries out pre-broadcast examinations on television programmes offered by private channels. To save time, not all the programmes proposed by a television channel are assessed. Only those...

At their conference at the beginning of May 1995 the directors of the regional media bodies were called upon to make an inspection of the programmes broadcast by the Turkish state television channel TRT-International (TRT-INT). This Turkish station can be seen by cable or satellite in most of the Federal states. The inspection was instigated by a special 56-hour programme broadcast at the end of April 1995 under the title "Rise up Turkey! Give courage to our soldiers" in which TRT-INT had called the population to support military forces deployed in Northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers' Party...

LIENHARD - PETITOT, Attorneys at Law) convention with Canal Plus containing 34 articles and an appendix that will open the way to the renewal of the encrypted channel's licence. This licence, awarded by the Government in 1983, will be running out on 5 December 1995. The convention will come into effect as of 6 December and will run for 5 years. Canal Plus will therefore be brought under the same general rules as the other authorised Hertzian channels. Canal Plus can schedule 365 films per year to be broadcast between midday and midnight, each film being shown 6 times, including once in its original...