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The Swiss Bundesrat (Council of Ministers) has decided to open for discussion proposals for a partial revision of the Fernmeldegesetz (Telecommunications Act - FMG) and the Fernmeldediensteverordnung (Teleservices DecreeFDV). The discussion phase forms part of the legislative process in Switzerland. Unbundling of the local loop is to be made compulsory by decree. The Bundesrat considers the legal basis set out in the FMG to be sufficient to regulate leased lines and all three types of unbundling by means of official decrees. The proposal for a revised FMG sets out a number of firmer regulatory...

The Standing Committee on Transfrontier Television of the Council of Europe has issued a Statement which focuses on the need for television programmes to uphold human dignity and the fundamental rights of others. The Statement was drafted in response to the emergence - in an increasingly competitive market - of certain television formats and ideas which "can infringe upon human integrity and dignity and expose the participants in these programmes to a complete loss of their private life, as well as to gratuitous physical or psychological suffering". The concerns and objectives of the Statement...

At a public session held on 13 August 2002, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) adopted a resolution concerning the protection of human dignity and personal image rights. The document is based on the concept that everyone has the right to freedom of expression, as long as such expression does not infringe another person's dignity or public image. As the resolution states, a democratic society can take measures to protect national security, territorial integrity and public order, to protect public health and morals and to safeguard the good reputation...

On 18 July 2002 Sejm, the lower chamber of Polish Parliament, adopted the Act on the electronic providing of services. The Senate did not present any amendments to the Bill, so on 14 August 2002 it was passed to the President for signing. The Act defines `electronic providing of service': it embraces services rendered via data processing systems without the simultaneous physical presence of the parties and at the individual request of the client. Such services may be offered solely via public data processing networks, like Internet. Furthermore, the Act regulates the duties of service providers...

On 15 May 2002, the Parliament adopted Act no. 4756 amending the fundamental Act no. 3984 of 20 April 1994 on the organisation and broadcasting of radio stations and television channels. The amendments provide, inter alia, that the supervisory body Radyo Ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu (Supreme Radio and Television Council - RTÜK) should include representatives of the National Security Council, the State Supreme Education Council (YÖK), the Prime Minister and MPs. According to the new Act, Internet services will also be monitored by the RTÜK. Internet Service Providers can therefore be obliged to have...