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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...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Republic of Austria signed an agreement on bilateral relations in the audiovisual sector in Vienna on 23 January 2006. Under the agreement, films that are co-produced by Luxembourgian and Austrian film makers will in future be treated in the same way as domestic films as long as one of the partners is responsible for at least 20% of the overall film costs. Film producers in both countries are therefore granted full access to the respective national state privileges, such as tax advantages and preferential treatment in relation to film aid. Luxembourg has been...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of, inter alia, the European Convention on cinematographic co-production and the European Convention relating to questions on copyright law and neighbouring rights in the framework of transfrontier broadcasting by satellite. We can hereby report that Luxembourg ratfied the European Convention on cinematographic co-production on 21 June 1996 and that therefore, this Convention entered into force for Luxembourg on 1 October 1996. Furthermore, the United Kingdom signed the European Convention relating to questions...