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Since 1 January 2006, RTL-TVI, Club RTL and Plug TV have ceased to be television broadcasting services in the French-speaking Community. That, in any case, was the view held by the Belgian PLC TVI which, until then, was the editor of these services. On 3 October 2005 its board of directors decided to not request renewal of the authorisation that it had been granted by the Government of the French-speaking Community in 1996 for the RTL-TVI and Club RTL services, and which lapsed on 31 December 2005. At the end of December 2005, TVI also announced its renunciation of the authorisation issued in March...

After long parliamentary preparations and debate, the Belgian Copyright Act of 30 June 1994 has been modified in order to implement the EC Directive 2001/29 of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. As the Directive 2001/29/EC should have been transposed into national law by the EC Member States before 22 December 2002, the European Commission had started the next step in the infringement procedure against Belgium for failing to comply with the 2004 rulings of the European Court of Justice (Case C-143/04, Commission v Belgium,...

The Flemish government has taken the initiative of reorganising the authorities currently licensing and/or supervising radio- and television broadcasting, cable networks and radio- and television services in the Flemish Community. The idea is to unite the existing authorities into one agency, the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish Regulator for the Media - FRM).The draft bill integrates the competences of the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority), the Vlaamse Geschillenraad voor Radio en Televisie (Flemish Council of Disputes for Radio and Television) and the Vlaamse...

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings (art. 266 of the EC Treaty) yet again as regards the EU Rules on Electronic Communications . At an earlier stage, the main concern of the European Commission was the full implementation of the EU framework for electronic communications which resulted in several decisions rendered by the Court of Justice on 10 March 2005 against Belgium and Luxembourg. The Court ruled that these countries had neglected to take the appropriate legal and administrative measures to implement the EC legislation at hand. This time the procedures are against...

On 17 March 2005, the Federal Parliament approved the new law on the protection of journalistic sources (see IRIS 2005-3: 6) and entered into force on 7 May 2005 after its publication in the Official Gazette (Moniteur Belge/Belgisch Staatsblad) on 27 April 2005. The protection of sources is guaranteed in respect of the following persons (Article 2):- 1° Journalists, which means anyone who is working independently or as an employee, as well as every legal person, who regularly and directly contributes to the gathering, editing, production or distribution of information for the public by way of a...