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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...

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....