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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...

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...