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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...

The terms of reference governing the activity of the national programming company France Télévisions was amended by decree on 26 December 2014. The text begins by amending the appendix for animation works on the scope of the rights so as to take into account the most recent professional agreement between France Télévisions and representatives of animated film producers, which was reached on 27 May 2014. This agreement provides that animation series are to be available free of charge on Pluzz, France Télévisions’ catch-up TV portal, for seven days. During the broadcasting rights period, three episodes...

On 18 November 2014, the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority - CvdM) imposed a EUR 160,000 penalty on TV10 B.V (Disney) for exceeding the maximum advertising time on the commercial broadcasting channel Disney XD. The maximum time for broadcasting commercials or teleshopping programmes on television is 12 minutes per hour, according to Article 3.8 of the Dutch Media Law (Mediawet 2008). Disney repeatedly exceeded this time by up to 15 minutes and 59 seconds of advertising during the months of November and December 2013. Disney admitted exceeding the time, but claimed that the violations...

The Broadcasting Authority has published a Consultation Document to amend the Broadcasting Code for the Protection of Minors. The Code, in its current format, has the defect of concentrating mainly on the protection of minors from the viewpoint of advertising, while barely dealing with other aspects of protection of minors in the broadcasting sector (see IRIS 2010-7/29). The current Code also doesn’t address the participation of minors in various programmes. As the remit of the Code is being extended, the Broadcasting Authority in its Consultation Document is proposing to alter the title of the...

On 5 November 2014, the Independent Audiovisual Authority of Luxembourg (Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l’audiovisuel - ALIA) issued its second decision which falls in the category of “decisions to be published” since it has been established by the law of August 2013 (see IRIS 2013-10/32). In its first published decision of February 2014, ALIA rejected an application for a new radio station (see IRIS 2014-7/27). This new decision concerns a programme transmitted on television in Belgium. The complaint, which was originally brought before the Belgian regulatory authority of the French...