How to modernise European television rules

Should European advertising rules allow product placement in TV programmes? Should blogs, online video games or private videos be considered media services to by regulated by EU law? Will children be sufficiently protected? At a public hearing on 1-2 June 2006, co-organised by 6 parliamentary committees, MEPs in the European Parliament heard different views on the scope and content of a proposed update to the Television without Frontiers directive.

European Parliament: Hearings: Joint Public Hearing: Audiovisual media services directive (1-2 June 2006, European Parliament, Brussels) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/cult/hearings/20060601/default_en.htm

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