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The UK co-regulatory bodies, the Committee of Advertising Practice and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice have introduced changes to their codes to regulate the marketing of e-cigarettes. The former covers general advertising, including non-broadcast electronic media, such as company websites and posts on social media directly connected with the supply of goods and services; the latter covers television services licensed by Ofcom. There were previously no specific restrictions on non-broadcast advertising of e-cigarettes. However, e-cigarettes could in practice not be advertised in...

On 31 October 2014, the Bulgarian regulator, the Council for Electronic Media, published the report on its activities for the first half of 2014. During the period in question, the Council for Electronic Media reported 69 infringements, ten more than in the second half of 2013. In 68 of these cases, the Bulgarian Broadcasting Act had been infringed. Fines were imposed against 24 audiovisual media service providers, 42 companies that only distribute audiovisual content and three radio stations. The cases essentially involved four types of infringement. Some of the cases concerned breaches of provisions...

On 18 July 2014, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg formally ratified and implemented the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, as well as its Additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. As the Grand Duchy was one of the last members of the Council of Europe that had signed (in 2003), but not ratified the Convention and its Protocol, the Chambre des députés (parliamentary assembly) had become subject to pressure from a number of international organisations. Luxembourg had already introduced, before the increasing...

At its meeting of July 2014, the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) upheld, in part, a complaint made against the broadcast of a dance routine, which included clear sexual overtones. The complaint concerned the broadcast of the dance routine at 6:30pm on a Sunday evening on RTÉ television’s The Voice of Ireland, without any prior audience warnings or notifications as to the nature of the content. Under section 48 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, viewers can complain about broadcasting content, which they believe is not in keeping with broadcasting codes and rules....

In mid-September 2014, the Federal Government submitted a “report on the measures taken in 2013 to remove telemedia services containing child pornography” in accordance with Article 184b of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal Code - StGB) to the German lower House of Parliament (Bundestag)”. In the digital world, images of sexual abuse of children are distributed to a high but unknown number of users worldwide. There is therefore an urgent need to effectively protect the victims of this abuse. With this aim in mind, the Federal Criminal Police Authority (Bundeskriminalamt - BKA), the national body jugendschutz.net,...