Search results : 1094

Two different legislative initiatives with regard to blocking websites with harmful or inappropriate content are under debate in Romania. Firstly, though rejected by the Romanian Senate on 26 April 2011, a draft law on preventing and fighting pornography, aimed at a review of the legislation on pornography (Law no. 196/2003 modified by Law no. 496/2004), proposed by the Government, will be sent to the Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber of Romania’s Parliament), which will have the final decision. Secondly, the Government adopted Decision no. 150/2011 (Official Journal of Romania no. 179 of 1 March...

Drawing conclusions from the first year of the application of the Act of 12 May 2010 organising an opening up of competition for online gambling, and taking documented practice into consideration, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) has issued a new recommendation on the conditions for radio and television stations broadcast of advertising for operators of gambling and games of chance. Article 7 of the Act of 12 May 2010 leaves the CSA the job of determining the conditions for broadcasting advertising, sponsoring, and product placement in favour of operators...

As part of its duty to protect children and young people, conferred on it by Article 15 of the Act of 30 September 1986, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) ensures not only the protection of young viewers but also the protection of minors taking part in television programmes. On 17 April 2007 it therefore adopted a deliberation on the participation of persons under the age of 18 in television programmes other than works of fiction (see IRIS 2007-6/17). This text reaffirms the need for young people to be able to express their opinions, and requires editors...

On 23 March 2011, the Bayerische Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Bavarian Administrative Court - BayVGH) endorsed the decision to restrict the broadcast times of two episodes of the programme "MTV I want a famous face" to between 11pm and 6am, thereby upholding the appeal of the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian Centre for New Media - BLM) on youth protection grounds (see IRIS 2009-10/8). The decision followed a complaint by the provider of the MTV music channel against the broadcast time restriction imposed by the BLM for several episodes of the “MTV I want a famous face” series, which...

On 11 April 2011, the Regulatorna agencija za komunikacije (Communications Regulatory Agency) launched a public consultation on several revised regulatory documents, most prominent of which are the Draft Code on Audiovisual Commercial Communications and Commercial Communications in Radio Media Services and the Draft Code on Audiovisual and Radio Media Content. The revision principally aims at bringing the existing regulation into line with the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). A two-tiered approach to the regulation of audiovisual media content has been established. In addition,...