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The Dutch government announced its intention to delay the auctioning of broadcasting frequencies. The Dutch Lower House (Tweede Kamer) recently adopted several amendments to the Dutch Media Act as well as to the Telecommunications Act. During the legislative process, Parliament amended the Government's proposal, significantly. The amendment stipulates that the intended auction of broadcasting frequencies cannot take place until a full inventory of the available spectrum bandwidth for broadcasting purposes has been completed. This research is expected to be completed in the beginning of 1999. In...

In November 1996, the European Commission published a report `The European Film Industry under Analysis. At the same time, the British film journalist, Angus Finney, published a book entitled `The State of European Cinema: A new dose of reality'. In reaction to both publications, and on the occasion of the 26th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Audiovisual Platform in The Netherlands organised a debate on `The State of the European Cinema: An Industry under Analysis'. A report of this debate is now available.

On 10 March 1997, an interdepartmental working group presented a paper to the Chairman of the Lower Chamber (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament, with the title: (Niet voor alle leeftijden: audiovisuele media en de bescherming van jeugdigen) " Not for all ages: audio-visual media and the protection of youth ". This paper represents the view of the Dutch Government on the subject of the protection of young people against harmful material in the wide area of audio-visual media. Attention is paid to recent developments being the subject of this policy, in the Netherlands as well as in a European...

There will be no legal obligation for broadcasters broadcasting in the Dutch public broadcasting system to allow the distribution of their television programmes by satellite. During the recent debate on several changes of the Media Act, Members of Parliament supported the idea that it should be possible for Dutch citizens staying outside the Netherlands to watch the programmes of the public broadcasting channels ( Nederland 1, 2 and 3 ). The programmes of the private commercial broadcasters broadcasting in the Dutch language (RTL4, RTL5, Veronica and SBS6) are already available to them via satellite....

In IRIS 1997-3: 10 we announced the approval, by the First Chamber of the Dutch Parliament, of a Bill amending the Law on Neighbouring Rights. We can now report that the Bill became Law and entered into force on 19 March 1997. As a consequence of this amendment no remuneration in any form is due for the broadcasting of radio and television programmes in cafés as well as in other places to which the public has access without payment.