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By letter of 26 June 1995, the Dutch government sent proposals to the Parliament on the liberalisation of the Media Act. The proposals include the creation of local and regional private commercial television and a statutory regulation of advertising on local and regional private commercial radio and television. These amendments are planned to take effect starting 1 January 1996. Changes that are to take effect in the longer term (starting 1 January 1997) include the liberalisation of distribution infrastructures. A further liberalisation of the regime for national broadcasters (private and public)...

New sponsorship rules for the Dutch public broadcasters came into force on 1 July 1995. The amendment of the Media Act follows the obligation to implement the EEC Directive "Television without frontiers". The original proposal of the Government to change the sponsorship regime was rather strict: sponsoring of programmes of the public broadcasters would not be allowed except for programmes in the categories of sports, culture, information and education. Parliament turned the proposal around by allowing sponsoring, with the exception of news programmes, children's programmes and consumer information....

In a letter dated 20 April 1995, the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) informed the public broadcasters that it will allow them to make use of the possibilities offered by new electronic media. The Commissariaat voor de Media will inter alia allow the interactive use of television, the publication of electronic programme guides and the distribution of programmes on Internet. While the Dutch Media Act is not clear on the question how the public broadcasting organisations may exploit the new electronic media, the permission of the Media Authority opens a wide range of new possibilities...

In IRIS 1995-3: 12-15, a list was published, updating Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions that are relevant to the audo-visual sector. However, on the date of publication of IRIS 1995-3, on 24 March 1995, Germany and the Netherlands deposited their instruments of ratification. The Convention will now enter into force in Germany as well as in the Netherlands on 1 July 1995. Both countries made a Declaration on the time of depositing the instrument of ratification; the Declaration of the Netherlands includes a Territorial Declaration: Germany Declaration contained in a letter from...

On 22 March 1995 the Dutch administrative court College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven ('board of appeal for trade and industry') set aside the Ministry of Transport and Public Works's decision to assign other broadcasters than Sky Radio an FM frequency. The court found that the Ministry in determining and assessing the criteria for the assignment of AM and FM frequencies to private commercial radio stations, has overstepped its competence. The consideration whether the programme of a private commercial radio station was an addition to the programming of the existing public and private broadcasters...