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On 19 January 2016, new amendments to the Latvian Electronic Mass Media Law (EMML) came into force. The amendments have been adopted by Saeima (the Latvian Parliament) on 17 December 2015. The amendments are substantial, as they introduce new concepts in the EMML, supplement the list of must-carry provisions, and supplement the conditions on which the Latvian regulatory authorities may suspend broadcasts and on-demand services from other countries, including European Union countries. Among the newly introduced concepts the most important is the “service of the distribution of television programmes”,...

The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has published its new report Parental Attitudes (Post Primary) 2015. The report examines film classification and the views of parents of adolescent children, and forms part of earlier studies which examined similar issues relating to parents of primary school children, and adolescents themselves (see IRIS 2005-4/22 and IRIS 2004-9/27). The 16-page report is divided into two main sections, detailing, first, parental awareness of IFCO’s functions, and second, parental attitudes to the current classification system. The key findings include that the “vast...

The 19. Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag (19th Amendment to the Inter-State Broadcasting Agreement - RÄStV) was signed on 3 December 2015. The Länder heads of government decided to adopt the amendment, which focuses on youth programmes and youth media, at their annual conference on 8/9 October 2015. Desspite the fears of a licence fee-funded distortion of competition expressed by the Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telemedien (Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Telemedia - VPRT), the signing of the agreement paves the way for the online-based range of youth programmes planned by ARD and ZDF....

On 17 December 2015, the Council of the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) adopted a new set of by-laws on audiovisual and radio media services amending and replacing the previous set from 2011, when the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive were first introduced into the regulatory framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina (see IRIS 2012-1/9). This set includes rules on Audiovisual Media Services (Pravilo o audiovizuelnim medijskim uslugama), rules on Radio Media Services (Pravilo o medijskim uslugama radija), a Code on Audiovisual and Radio Media Services (Kodeks o audiovizuelnim...

The audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) has published its response to the European Commission’s consultation on the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AMSD) - ‘A media framework for the 21st century’. This contribution to the current consideration of the evolution of Europe’s audiovisual framework highlights the need to extend the perimeter of the Directive to include digital intermediaries to which a set of suitable rules would be applied. The CSA uses a number of examples to exemplify the difficulty in qualifying certain on-demand services not included...