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On 1 August 2012, an amendment to the Audiovisual Act 7/2010 was adopted by the Spanish parliament, introducing a new legal framework for regional public service broadcasters, which aims at allowing regional public service broadcasters greater flexibility in the provision of their audiovisual media services. It also modifies the regulation of protection of minors. According to this amendment, the Autonomous Communities may opt for direct or indirect management of their public service broadcasters through various models including public-private partnership. If an Autonomous Community chooses not...

On 21 June 2012, the European Commission released a press statement announcing its intent to refer Poland to the EU Court of Justice. The Commission explained that Poland had failed to fully implement the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS Directive).(see IRIS 2010-8/4 and IRIS 2011-5/5). According to the Commission, Poland has not fully implemented the provisions regarding on-demand services. The Commission mentions in particular that the requirements that aim to protect viewers, especially children, from commercial communications in the form of hidden advertising or from content containing...

On 9 March 2012, following the publication of a consultation document on film and stage classification (see IRIS 2012-3/29), the Minister responsible for Culture published a Bill to amend various laws relating to the classification of films and of dramatic and other stage productions. In actual fact, the Bill aims to ‘facilitate the establishment of a system of cinema and dramatic and other stage productions, and to transfer the laws regulating the classification of cinema and dramatic and other stage productions from the competence of the Ministry responsible for the Police to the competence of...

In June 2011, the Finnish Parliament adopted Kuvaohjelmalaki 710/2011 (Act on audiovisual programmes) and Laki Mediakasvatus- ja kuvaohjelmakeskuksesta 711/2011 (Act on the Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media). The Acts entered into force on 1 January 2012. The Act on audiovisual programmes restricts the provision of audiovisual programmes in order to protect children. The Act applies to audiovisual programme provision and its supervision in Finland, if the programmes are provided by television operations or by on-demand services subject to the Act on Television and Radio Operations...

In the first months of 2012 the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRT) has monitored some of the programmes on the two national commercial TV stations, TV Klan and Top Channel TV. The NCRT reported that the monitoring was carried out after complaints by citizens about these programmes. According to the outcome of the monitoring process, the satirical weekly programme broadcast by Top Channel TV, “Portokalli”, used vulgar language, with an undue amount of allegations. The statement said that in spite of the humorous nature of the programme, the choices were not always justified. In addition,...