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It is sometimes forgotten than Belgium’s complex institutional organisational structure in respect of audiovisual matters is not made up only of the country’s three linguistic communities (the French-, Flemish- and German-speaking sections of the population). A few areas of responsibility have been retained by the federal (that is to say, national) authorities; these include audiovisual matters in the bilingual region of Brussels-Capital - an area that is home to nearly 1.2 million people; Brussel’s French- and Flemish-speaking communities do have some responsibilities, but only with regard to...

On 25 November 2016 the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly enacted a new version of the 2011 Model Statute on the Basics of Internet Regulation (Модельный закон «Об основах регулирования Интернета» - see IRIS 2011-8/10). It consists of three chapters containing a total of fifteen articles. The Act sets out the principles governing (and determines the main direction of) the regulation of relations concerning the use of the Internet, sets out the procedures for State support of its development, and outlines the rules for determining the place and time of legally...

On 15 June 2017, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on online platforms and the Digital Single Market. This follows the European Commission’s Communication on a Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe in 2015, which included creating a fit for purpose regulatory environment for platforms and intermediaries (see IRIS 2015-6/3). The Resolution begins by welcoming the Commission’s Communication on Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market (see IRIS 2015-10/4 and IRIS 2017-7/7), and by acknowledging that online platforms benefit today’s digital economy and society by increasing the...

On 18 May 2017, the European Parliament gave a mandate to the Committee on Culture and Education to begin talks with the European Council on a new directive on audiovisual media services in view of changing market realities. The mandate has a special focus on the protection of children, new rules on advertising, and a 30% quota of European works on video-on-demand (VOD) platforms. The mandate, consistent with the amendments that the Culture Committee voted on 25 April 2017, was approved by 314 votes to 266, with 41 abstentions. When referring to the protection of children, the mandate given by...

Since June 2015, the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM), an organ of the federal states media authorities in Germany, has approved several solutions for the age verification (AVS submodule) of German companies for closed user groups in telemedia. These include the modules "IDnow Video Ident" of IDnow GmbH from Munich and "Postident by Videochat" of Deutsche Post AG, but also the "DE-Mail" system of 1 & 1 De-Mail GmbH. Due to the Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors (JMStV), pornographic content, certain listed (indexed) content and content which obviously seriously...