Youth and protection of the minors

Summary

The protection of the children and the teenagers with respect to the programs of the departments of communication audio-visual likely to harm their physical, mental and moral blooming is one of the missions that the articles 1st and 15 of the relative law to the freedom of the communication entrusted to the Superior council of the audio-visual one.

Violence, the erotism, the pornography present in certain programs, as well as the advertising pressure, are part of the constant concerns of the CSA in this field. Far from any idea of censure, the Council wants to make protection of the young public the field of a shared responsibility between televisions and the radios, the parents and the regulator.

The competence of the Council relates to the services of radio and television, nationals or buildings, diffused in metropolis or overseas, whatever their mode of diffusion, which understands the diffusion in terrestrial hertzian mode (digital or analogical) and by the cable, the satellite, ADSL as well as televisions and radios on Internet and the 3G.