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On 20 December 2014, the President of the Turkmenistan signed into law the statute “On the legal regulation of the development of the Internet and Internet services in Turkmenistan”. It consists of 8 chapters and 34 articles. The main objectives of the statute are to provide unrestricted Internet access to users throughout the territory of Turkmenistan, to define the legal regime of the information posted or disseminated online, to prevent socially dangerous acts committed on the Internet, as well as to create the conditions necessary to maximise the detection and subsequent punishment of those...

On 20 June 2014 the Government submitted a proposal to establish a new Act on the protection of minors (Lov om beskyttelse av mindreårige mot skadelige bildeprogram). The new law was enacted by Parliament on 15 December 2014 during a second reading, following the first reading on 10 December. The new law introduces a platform-independent approach, which means that provisions regarding the protection of minors against harmful content in audiovisual programmes are combined in one Act regardless of platform. The Act will come into force no earlier than 1 July 2015. The scope of the Act includes linear...

On 25 July 2014, the Government of Luxembourg proposed a grand-ducal regulation on the protection of minors in audiovisual media services based on the Loi sur les médias électroniques (Law on Electronic Media - LEM). This proposal is closely linked to an infringement procedure brought by the European Commission pursuant to Art. 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Commission reprimanded Luxembourg for having failed to implement Art. 12 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which aims at protecting minors in on-demand audiovisual media services. In its reasoned...

On 15 December 2014, the United Kingdom media regulator Ofcom published two reports. One, entitled Public Sector Broadcast Annual Report 2014 (the First Report), reviewed the UK Public Sector Broadcasters (PSBs) performance since 2008. The remits of PSB channels, such as ITV and Channel 4, are defined under section 265 of the Communications Act 2003; part 2 of Schedule 12 of the 2003 Act is the relevant part for the Welsh Channel S4C and the public purpose of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is described in the BBC Charter, due for renewal in 2016. The second Report, entitled Public Service...

The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 came into effect on 1 December 2014. The Regulations amend the provisions setting out the regulatory framework for on-demand programme services contained in Part 4A of the Communications Act 2003. This Part was inserted by the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2009 and 2010 to implement the relevant provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (see IRIS 2010-1/24). The new regulations first prohibit an on-demand programme service from containing a video work, which has been refused a classification certificate by the British Board of...