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On 27 January 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland published its new “Rules on Television Subtitling, Sign Language and Audio Description”. The previous rules had been in effect since 2012 (see IRIS 2012-7/28) and in 2014 a public consultation was launched on revising the rules (see IRIS 2014-7/25). The rules set out the level of subtitling, sign language and audio-description that television broadcasters must offer to the public. Under the new rules, a range of percentage targets are set for each broadcast service (television station) that they must provide for the period 2014-2018 and...

On 27 January 2015, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland published its revised code of programme standards. The previous code had been in effect since 2007 (see IRIS 2008-5/23) and in 2014 a public consultation was launched in order to update the code. The Authority noted that the review indicated that the content of the previous code remained relevant, but “the structure and wording of the code required substantial revision”. This was to ensure the code was more “user-friendly and understandable”. Thus, while the previous code had over 14 sections under both “Content Rules” and “Content Principles”,...

At its meeting on 10 December 2014, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media - KJM) gave a positive assessment of three new age verification measures (AVS partial modules) for closed user groups in telemedia. They are Aristotle Inc.'s "Aristotle Integrity/Instant Global ID and Age Verification (Integrity)" system, edentiX GmbH's "Online Ausweischeck" and Web Shield Limited's "KYC Shield". According to the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Protection of Young People in the Media - JMStV), certain content that is...

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...