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As the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French regulatory body - CSA) agreed at the end of last year to the possibility of renewing the authorisation issued to the channel CANAL+ (an encrypted pay-television service broadcast terrestrially) for a further five years, the channel and the CSA had to negotiate a new agreement setting out the rules applicable to the channel. This was finalised on 29 May. The agreement currently in force has been amended on several points, particularly as regards news ethics and the protection of children and young people. In view of the growing proportion of the...

On 4 April 2000, the Parliament of the Czech Republic passed zákon o ochrane osobních údaju (the new Data Protection Act). The Act sets out rights and duties linked to the processing of personal data and the conditions for their transmission abroad, thus transposing Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. According to the law, personal data means information on a particular or determinable natural person. Information that does not meet this criterion is not protected and may, just...

On 31 March, the Landgericht Hamburg (Hamburg District Court) confirmed that a (print) news magazine must pay damages to a bank following the broadcast of a television advertisement (see IRIS 1997-9: 6). In an advertisement for the latest edition of the magazine, the editor said, "Many people might lose their money". The report itself did not deal with the bank's financial situation, however, but questioned the reliability of its then chairman. Even the cover page of the magazine contained the headline, "Hamburg private bank in trouble: customers fear for their money". A few days after the magazine...

On 22 March 2000, the European Commission welcomed the Third Annual Report of the Information Society Forum (ISF). The ISF was founded in 1995 to give independent advice to the Commission of the European Communities on the development of the Information Society. The Report covers major issues relating to the development of the Information Society and contains a list of recommendations addressed to the European Commission and the European Union to consider actions in different areas. The Report proposes a specific European approach for the Information Society that keeps the balance between different...

The Spanish Parliament has approved a new Act dealing with data protection. This new Act abrogates and supersedes the Ley Orgánica 5/1992, de Tratamiento Automatizado de datos de carácter personal (Organic Act 5/1992, on the regulation of the automatic processing of personal data). The new Act has been passed in order to incorporate into Spanish Law the EC Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. According to Art. 32 of this Directive,...