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On 23 December 2015, the Law on Radio and Television Organisations of 1998 was amended. The goal of these amendments is the regulation of the participation of minors in advertising and teleshopping messages, as well as in television programmes, in order to ensure their interests and protect their rights. Amending Law N. 201(I)/2015 established general rules with regard to the participation of minors in commercial and other television productions, while the regulator, the Cyprus Radio Television Authority, is required to produce a code of conduct on the matter. More specifically, the following amending...

The Code of Journalistic Ethics, drafted by the Flemish Council of Journalism, contains 27 articles. Particular articles are accompanied by a guideline which provides more information on the way a certain principle must be interpreted and implemented by the press. In December 2015, a new guideline was adopted to clarify Article 15, which states that journalists must use certain methods to gather or process information, photos, images and documents, and that journalists must not abuse their capacity, especially vis-à-vis vulnerable individuals such as minors, and victims of crime, disasters or accidents...

For 25 years the Commissariaat voor de Media (the Dutch Media Authority) has been the monitor of the Dutch media sector, seeking to safeguard its pluralistic and independent character. An annual report, called Mediamonitor, gives insights into the sector’s latest trends, media corporations and markets (for previous reports see IRIS 2015-1/34, IRIS 2011-5/35 and IRIS 2006-1/33). The latest report, published on 23 November 2015, mainly focuses on two themes: the independence of the media and the transparency of media institutions. Subsequently, it highlights some specific trends shown by contemporary...

"Let's choose what we watch" is a national campaign by the Agency for Electronic Media (AEM) and UNICEF, which aims to raise awareness of the importance of media literacy of parents, caregivers, and children, and on the importance of careful selection of media content for children. The campaign urges parents to use the TV ratings system that is designed to draw attention to the suitability of programmes for different age groups. According to research conducted by AEM and UNICEF in October 2014, children watch television for approximately three hours each day and almost half of that time spent in...

After the films “Love”, “Saw 3D” and “Nymphomaniac”, it is the turn of “La Vie d’Adèle” (English title: “Blue is the Warmest Colour”), which was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014, to have its classification licence issued by the Minister for Culture withdrawn. In the present case, an association and a number of parents of under-18-year-olds had applied to the Administrative Court for the decision by the Minister for Culture granting a classification licence to the film to be changed to include a ban on the film being shown to anyone under 12 years’ old and for it to carry...