Frattini, a new hot topic has started to be heavily discussed by European Union bodies and Member States. Although the self-regulation measures are already in place for some years, a new approach is pushed by the Italian Commissioner.
As previously reported by EDRI-gram, the violent video game debate started in Italy where the Minister of Justice, Mr.
Clemente Mastella, sale of videogames, after the game Rule of Rose appeared on the market. The debate was extended to the EU level by the Italian Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini that sent a letter to all the Internal Affairs Ministries on this topic, violence and the obscene..
.brutal and perverse games distributed to Commissioner, Mrs. Reading, that criticized his colleague in harsh before your letter to the Ministers of Interior was sent out.
rdquo; She also already been in place since 2003, strongly backed up by Mrs. Reading. on Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Another answer came from the UK Minister of Interior, John Reid that also presented the PEGI system as a viable solution, if properly enforced. He added that a retailer could face imprisonment in UK if it sold violent games to minors.
topic.
A recent event was reported in the western part of Germany where Emsdetten before killing himself. Politicians in Bavaria and Lower cruel violence on humans or human-looking characters.
multidisciplinary approach to the problem.
He considered that three components needed to be encouraged: rating of movies and games, media literacy and technical solutions. Frattini also announced that in the It is clear, at this point, that the present European system is put under scrutiny, compliance with the voluntary rating system being considered as a possible significant problem. This is why EU is planning a 2007 conference on violent video games, where all the to follow.
The topic will still be present on the agenda of the EU Justice Ministers meeting in January 2007, when a legislative action could be initiated.
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