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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...

On 17 of December 2010 a package of legislation specific to the media was enacted in Luxembourg. In addition to the modifications made to the Law on Electronic Media (see IRIS 2011-2/31) which transposes the EU Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, several regulations have been amended in parallel (see IRIS 2011-4/29). The amendments principally aim at bringing the executing regulations into line with the new version of the Electronic Media Law of 2010 (see IRIS 2011-2/31). The two regulations on the promotion of European works and on commercial communication have, however, been changed...

With the Loi du 17 décembre 2010 portant modification de la loi modifiée du 27 juillet 1991 sur les médias électroniques (the Law of 17 December 2010 Amending the Modified Law of 27 July 1991 on the Electronic Media, Electronic Media Law 2010) and eight accompanying Regulations of the same day, Luxembourg has finalised the transposition of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive and updated one of its main media-related acts. After a first step amending the advertising rules in a Regulation of 2008, the new law and regulations align the Luxembourgish rules for audiovisual media services with...