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On 15 May 2013, the District Court in Amsterdam denied Ryanair access to the raw source material of television interviews with its employees. In two television broadcasts - one at the end of 2012 and one at the beginning of 2013 - the Dutch public broadcaster KRO addressed the business practices of the airline, which, according to anonymous pilots, could lead to dangerous situations. Based on the interviews, KRO reported that sick and overtired pilots regularly had to fly and that Ryanair’s policy to fly with a minimal amount of fuel is contrary to airline regulations. Ryanair, suspecting that...

On 1 April 2013, the Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit (Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority - OPTA) officially merged with the Nederlandse Mededingingsautoriteit (Dutch Competition Authority - NMa) and the Consumentenautoriteit (the Consumer Authority - CA), to create a new organisation called Autoriteit Consument en Markt (the Authority Consumer and Market - ACM). Prior to the merger, the three organizations that each had responsibility for the supervision of different parts of the market: the NMa oversaw cartel formations and price agreements, the OPTA supervised...

In February 2013, the Media Monitor of the Commissariaat voor de Media (Media Authority - CvdM) published a report entitled Analyse en Verdieping #2, Over audiovisuele media in het digitale tijdperk (Analysis and Deepening #2, about audiovisual media in the digital age). The report contains, as the title suggests, an analysis of developments in the field of audiovisual media in the digital age. Over ten years ago, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science instructed the Commissariat for the Media to develop a monitoring system for media concentrations. Since then, the Commissariat reports...

In accordance with Article 7.20 (1) of the Mediawet 2008 (Dutch Media Act), the Commissariaat voor de Media (Media Authority - CvdM) must report each year to the Minister of Education, Culture and Science on its intended enforcement policy. On 31 October 2012 the CvdM sent its enforcement letter 2013 to the Minister and made it public. In its letter to the Minister, the CvdM first emphasises the general principles in its enforcement strategy that are focused on stimulating the presence of a level playing field and effective and customised supervision measures for different media institutions. The...

On 14 February 2013, the Dutch Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, S. Dekker, introduced a bill to amend the Mediawet 2008 (Media Act 2008) in order to “modernise the system of national public broadcasting”. The system should become more compact in the future: in 2016 the public broadcasting service will consist of up to 8 broadcasters, instead of the current 21. The public broadcasting service will be composed of three cooperative broadcasters (AVRO/TROS, VARA/BNN and KRO/NCRV), two task organisations (NOS and NTR) and three independent broadcasters (EO, MAX, VPRO). New aspiring broadcasters...