PROTECTION OF MINORS (5593/06)
Letter from the Chairman to Shaun Woodward
MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Culture,
Media and Sport
Thank you for your letter dated 28 August 2006[153]
which was considered by Sub-Committee G on 19 October.
We are grateful to you for setting out in more
detail the Government's concerns about the Recommendation. We
note your views on the inconsistency and impracticality of some
aspects of the Recommendation which is regrettable. We share your
concern about the intrusive nature of some aspects and over the
direction of policy development at European level which appears
to lie behind those aspects. As you note, Sub-Committee B will
be able to explore those issues further with you as part of their
examination of the TVWF/AVMS Directive.
On the other hand, we are glad to note the more
positive aspects of the Recommendation, especially in attempting
to make the Internet safer for children. We hope that the Commission
can be encouraged to achieve those worthwhile objectives effectively
in a way which accepts the reality of the rapid and diverse development
of on-line services and does not impinge unduly on the freedom
of the media or the principles of subsidiarity.
20 October 2006
153 Correspondence with Ministers, 40th Report of Session
2006-07, HL Paper 187, p 549-550. Back
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