(f) audiovisual commercial communications must not cause moral or physical detriment to minors or seek to exploit their susceptibility or that of the vulnerable or disabled.

– (FR) Mrs Pack’s excellent report finally addresses a cultural issue that is all too often seen as a minor art form, whereas in fact it is art in its purest form, as it mixes dream, travel, childhood, body patterns, music, tragedy and poetry in a blend of courage and sensitivity.

As a mother of two small children, I naturally look for children's programmes and cartoons – with a view to finding programmes which do not injure their sensibilities and which are not prejudicial to minors – and I often find that these programmes or cartoons intended for small children are much more violent than anything even I would like to see.

1.33. Ruggedness means the susceptibility of an analytical method to changes in experimental conditions which can be expressed as a list of the sample materials, analytes, storage conditions, environmental and/or sample preparation conditions under which the method can be applied as presented or with specified minor modifications.

The scope of the directive needs to be broadened to embrace not only the subjects mentioned above but also others that are already included but are insufficiently developed, such as the problems of intellectual property, respect for children as often unsupervised users, the cultural levels of programmes – taking into account not only the interests and requirements of those who make them but especially the feelings of those at whom these products are targeted – and lastly the confrontation with American productions, a subject on which there was quite a harsh confrontation in 1997 but which remained to a great extent unresolved.

With regard to the protection of minors, where many sensibilities have to be taken into account, co-regulation can often better achieve the given aims.