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For many years, frequencies for commercial radio (AM and FM) have been allocated on a temporary basis in the Netherlands. For almost a decade, discussions took place on the amount of available frequencies and on how to allocate them. About two years ago, consensus was reached and the decision was taken to use an auction to assign nine national licences for commercial FM radio (frequencies for regional/local commercial radio are also available, but are not further discussed here). This would mean a substantial increase in the number of stations. However, the Dutch Parliament changed its mind and...

The Dutch Secretary of State for Education, Culture and Science was right to reject the request of the broadcasting organisation, DeNieuwe Omroep, for a provisional accreditation to enter the Dutch public broadcasting system. That was the judgment of the Afdeling Bestuursrechtspraak Raad van State (the highest instance for appeal in cases of administrative law - ABRvS) on 24 July 2002. The Dutch public broadcasting system is formed by private organisations that are publicly financed. In principle, every five years, new parties can enter the public broadcasting system if they fulfil the conditions...

A number of Member States of the Council of Europe have either signed or ratified treaties of relevance to the audiovisual sector since the publication in IRIS 2002-5 of the table of signatures and ratifications of such treaties. - On 14 May, the Netherlands became the eighth country to accede to the European Convention on the Legal Protection of Services based on, or consisting of, Conditional Access (see IRIS 2000-9: 3). Having signed this Convention on 24 January 2001, Romania proceeded to become the first country to ratify it on 26 August 2002. The Convention will enter into force upon ratification...

On 25 April 2002, the President of the District Court of Amsterdam ordered XS4ALL (a Dutch Internet service provider) to take measures to deny access to a website which contained information that was harmful to the plaintiff, Deutsche Bahn AG (DB, a railway company), and furthermore, to provide the plaintiff with the names and addresses of the website-holders. The offending sections of the website contained information given by a group of left-wing activists on how to disrupt and sabotage the German railroad network that is used by DB. Among other things, they described exactly how to fabricate...

In a legal action between the broadcasting company, RTL/De Holland Media Groep S.A. (RTL/HMG), on one side and a Dutch actor and the production company, Endemol, on the other, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled on 11 April 2002 that an actor, contractually bound to RTL/HMG, was not in breach of contract for starring in a drama series of a rival television station. Additionally, the Court found that Endemol, the producer of the series, had not acted unlawfully towards RTL/HMG by creating a series featuring the actor in question. Two contracts existed between RTL/HMG and the actor: one contract...