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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...

The Dutch broadcasting organisation Veronica, currently licensed to broadcast in the public broadcasting system of the Netherlands, is going ahead with its plans to become a private commercial broadcaster. The broadcasting organisation has concluded an agreement with Endemol, a major independent production company based in the Netherlands, and with RTL4 and 5, the Dutch language private commercial channels of the Luxembourg based organisation CLT. Endemol will produce most of the programmes for the joint venture. The new conglomerate will broadcast three television programmes: the existing RTL4...

The Dutch Parliament has significally amended the Government's Bill on the introduction of sponsorship rules for the public broadcasting stations. The Bill - aimed at implementing the 1989 EC Directive on transfrontier television - set out strict limitations on the possibilities of external financing by commercial sponsoring. The Parliament changed the 'no - except' approach into a 'yes - except' form; sponsoring of the programmes of public broadcasters is allowed, except for programmes as news broadcasts, political programmes, programmes aimed at children of 12 years or less and consumer information....

There is a gradual shift towards a society that is based on cheap and fast exchange of information, as well as a growing supply of information services (facing a relative constant demand by citizens). The number and capacity of means of information transport are increasing in terms of infrastructure and telecommunication services. Moreover, every infrastructure can be used for the transport of nearly every type of information or communication service. Thanks to technological changes, transfrontier service provision and economies of scale, the number of market players is increasing. The market...

The Kingdom of Spain and the Netherlands reached an agreement on 27 February 1978 concerning cultural and scientific co-operation. The aim of the agreement, which came into force on 6 March 1979, is to promote joint co-operation on education, science and culture. Article 13 provides that the contracting countries must foster direct co-operation in the areas of radio, television and the press. According to Article 14, this also applies in particular to cinematographic co-productions and the exchange of artistic, documentary and scientific films and other audiovisual media productions that will...