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The national film institutes of the 15 Member States of the European Union have made a common declaration on the importance of State aid for European films. This is the first time the film institutes have made a common statement. The national film institutes are publicly funded and were founded to support national and European film culture. In this common declaration the institutes express their concerns regarding the necessity for State aid for European films. The institutes are worried that the audio-visual sector in Europe will be left solely to the chances of free market forces. In the declaration,...

The Act of 2 August 2002 on the protection of the individual in the processing of personal data came into force on 1 December 2002. This legislation transposes Directive 95/46/EEC into national legislation and repeals the Act of 31 March 1979 regulating the use of personal data in computer processing, which has been largely ignored. In accordance with the guidelines set out in the Directive, the new Act makes every effort to ensure the quality of the data collected (Article 4), the legitimacy of the purpose of the processing (Article 5) and the protection of the processed data (Article 22). It...

Following a major policy change of the Luxembourgish Government, decided on 25 January 2002, cable television stations in Luxembourg will be allowed to derive income from advertising in the near future. Until now, it had been the Government's policy to allow only the country's main broadcaster RTL Tele Lëtzebuerg to broadcast television advertisements. The terms and conditions of the local television stations' broadcasting permits prohibited advertising, even though the sponsoring of shows was allowed. In the past, this had led to discussions on how to differentiate between advertising and sponsorship....

The Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg has published a policy paper outlining its intentions for the upcoming reform of the 1991 Electronic Media Act. The paper, Orientations pour une nouvelle législation sur la radio et la television, published on 14 March 2002, is the Executive's contribution to a parliamentary debate on the topic that is currently scheduled for June 2002. Since the drafting of new legislation will only commence after the parliamentary hearing, any reform is unlikely to be enacted before 2003 (the current Parliament ends its term in office in June 2004). The paper announces...

On 21 December 1998 Luxembourg adopted new legislation amending and reworking the amended Act of 13 December 1988 setting up a special interim tax scheme for audio-visual investment certificates, and the Act of 11 April 1990 creating a national fund for the support of audio-visual production. A special interim tax scheme has been set up on the basis of audio-visual investment certificates aimed at promoting risk capital investments in the production of audio-visual works to be produced in Luxembourg (Art.1). Article 2 of the new Act stipulates that the Luxembourg Government may issue audio-visual...