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In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the important changes in the framework of European legislation on electronic services and communications contained in Directive 2009/136/EC (“the Directive”) and Directive 2009/140/EC have been transposed into national legislation by an amount of legislation; some of it is new, and some amends previous legislation (see also IRIS 2012-1/32). Most of these changes were promulgated between June 2010 and February 2011. When the deadline for transposition (25 May 2011) was reached, the European Commission initiated proceedings against twenty member States, including...

Under Luxembourg law, the transposition of the European legislative framework for electronic networks and services was initially provided for by the 2005 “Telecom Package”, which comprised four separate acts. The amendments arising from Directives 2009/136/EC and 2009/140/EC have made it necessary to adopt a number of acts amending the initial “package” and to replace several of its component parts. The latest change was made recently by the Act of 28 July 2011 (see also: IRIS 2012-2/33). The other alterations to be made were in fact adopted before the deadline for incorporation into national legislation...

The purpose of the international tax credit instituted by the 2009 Budget and embodied in Art. 220 quaterdecies of the General Tax Code is to make it easier to shoot and manufacture in France cinematographic and audiovisual works originated by a non-French producer and containing elements that attach it to the culture, heritage or territory of France. Thus the tax credit is granted to a company that carries out the executive production of a work in France, subject to the company being approved by the national cinematographic centre (Centre National de la Cinématographie - CNC). The credit represents...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

As a consequence of the changes made to the Electronic Media Law on 17 December 2010 in Luxembourg (see IRIS 2011-2/31), several executing regulations were amended on the same day (see IRIS 2011-4/28). The modifications to the regulations are predominantly editorial as a result of the adaptation of the wording of the Luxembourg Electronic Media Law to the EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. The following two regulations refer to the licensing procedure for programmes disseminated by cable or satellite respectively and their wordings are modified by replacing the term “programme” with...