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On 2 November 2016, with decision n. 424/16/CONS, the Italian Regulatory Authority for Telecommunication (Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni - AGCOM) approved a decision concerning “guidelines about the respect of human dignity and the principle of non-discrimination within news programmes, news outlets and entertainment programmes”. With this decision, AGCOM wants to issue interpretative criteria for the activity of broadcasting services monitoring, for which it has responsibility, and to interpret the application of articles 3, 32 paragraph 5 and 34 of the Italian Audiovisual and Radio...

The Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has held that the broadcaster FM 104 violated a number of broadcasting rules during a live phone-in programme which featured a discussion on the issue of “special needs children and their exclusion from summer camps.” A complaint had been made over a July 2016 broadcast on “The FM 104 Phone Show” that is broadcast each weekday night and covers a wide range of topics. The complainant claimed inter alia that the broadcasting comments by one caller who referred to an autistic child as “having no mind of their own; not being ‘all...

The UK Government has introduced amendments to the Digital Economy Bill which will enable the blocking of pornographic websites which do not put into place age verification measures to ensure that they are not accessed by persons under 18. The Digital Economy Bill contains measures to require that pornographic sites include age verification measures. If these are not in place, pornographic content made available on a commercial basis will constitute “offending material”. The system will be supervised by the British Board of Film Classification, which is responsible for the age classification of...

On 7 December, the Senate finally adopted, by 213 votes to 0, the bill tabled by a Green Party MP banning commercial advertising in children’s programmes on public television. Article 1 of the bill supplements Article 14 of the Act of 30 September 1986 and states that advertising in these programmes will be regulated under a Council of State decree. It also gives the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) a monitoring and advisory role. Each year, the CSA will have to submit to parliament “a report evaluating the actions taken by audiovisual communication...

After concluding consultations with stakeholders and the interested public, the Council for Electronic Media on 8 September 2016 adopted Recommendations for the protection of children and the safe use of electronic media. The document stems from the obligation of developed societies to provide children and adolescents with conditions that enable them to achieve their full potential. The role of institutions is to help systematically parents and others who take care of children in their daily efforts to provide a secure, supportive and healthy environment for the development of children and young...