4 document No. 20271 of the Senate. reforms related to prior censorship. These documents contain the legislative 18. The Order of the Court of November 28, 2002, in which, among other matters, it decided: That the State ha[d] the obligation to take all necessary measures to give effect to and comply promptly with the judgment of February 5, 2001, delivered by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights in “The Last Temptation of Christ” case, pursuant to the provisions of Article 68(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights. […] 19. The fifth report of the State of March 19, 2003, in which it declared that “on July 10, 2001, the National Congress adopted the draft constitutional reform designed to establish the right to freedom of artistic creation and the elimination of cinematographic censorship, substituting this by a classification system which w[ould] be regulated by law”; this draft was promulgated and incorporated into the Constitution [Carta Fundamental] on August 25, 2001, by publication of Act No. 19,742 in the Official Gazette of Chile. Chile also advised that Act No. 19,846 (the Classification of Cinematographic Production Act) was published and entered into force on January 4, 2003; its first article established a system to classify cinematographic productions by age groups, designed to guide the adult population with regard to the contents of cinematographic productions and to protect children and adolescents, pursuant to the contents of various international treaties concluded by the State. 20. The additional report of the State of April 7, 2003, in which it indicated that on January 9, 2003, the film “The Last Temptation of Christ” had been reclassified by the new Classification Council and was included in the category “over 18 years of age.” The company responsible for distributing the film “The Last Temptation of Christ” in Chile, United International Pictures, had organized the avant premier on March 11, 2003, in the Cine Arte Alameda in Santiago, where it has been exhibited “since then for all those over 18 years of age.” 21. The brief of Juan Pablo Olmedo Bustos of May 12, 2003, and its attachments, in which he indicated that even though the State had amended the Constitution and published Act No. 19,846 on Classification of Cinematographic Production, which was decisive for exhibition of the film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “it ha[d] still not fully complied [...] [with] amending the law so as to eliminate prior censorship in Chile.” He stated that, according to transitory article 3 of Act No. 19,846, the Act’s provisions would be complemented by regulations that “[would be] issued within 90 days of its publication in the Official Gazette,” and, although this period had elapsed, the State had not issued the regulations. He added that the regulations were particularly important, because they regulated and determined the content of the legislation and had to be in harmony with the principles regulating the American Convention on Human Rights. 22. The brief of May 22, 2003, and its attachments, in which the Commission submitted its comments on the State’s additional report of April 7, 2003. In this respect, it indicated that “[i]n view of the report presented by Chile, the press communiqués announcing exhibition of the film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and the report presented by the victims in this case, “the State had complied substantially with the fourth operative paragraph of the judgment.”

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