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Since 1998 the Flemish Broadcasting Act has prohibited political advertising on radio and television (Article 80 para. 3 - see IRIS 1998-5: 13). The prohibition of political advertising on radio and television was integrated into the Flemish Broadcasting Act when the Flemish Parliament realised that the federal law on electoral propaganda and the financing of political parties did not provide for such a prohibition. Nor was the provision in Article 81, no.1 of the Flemish Broadcasting Act that forbids advertising with a political tendency an effective rule for banning political advertising on radio...

The RTBF (public-service radio and television service for the French-speaking Community in Belgium) has acquired a new management as a result of an original three-stage process, completed on 24 March. The first stage was the adoption on 19 December 2002 of a decree amending the decree of 14 July 1997 on the status of the RTBF. This latest decree made a number of specific changes to the 1997 decree, particularly as regards the role of the regional production centres, the composition of the board of directors, negotiation of the management contract and the appointment of the general administrator....

The national film institutes of the 15 Member States of the European Union have made a common declaration on the importance of State aid for European films. This is the first time the film institutes have made a common statement. The national film institutes are publicly funded and were founded to support national and European film culture. In this common declaration the institutes express their concerns regarding the necessity for State aid for European films. The institutes are worried that the audio-visual sector in Europe will be left solely to the chances of free market forces. In the declaration,...

Radio-Télévision belge de la Communauté française (the public Belgian Broadcasting Corporation of the French Community - RTBF) was set up in 1997. Its remit and status, code of ethics, funding, representation and type of programming were laid down in the decree of 14 July 1997. On 19 December 2002, a number of important elements of the statute were amended by a new decree, which introduced the provisions necessary to implement the "Magellan 2003-2007" restructuring plan for modernising and breathing new life into RTBF. The aim of the plan was to improve the administration of RTBF and restore its...

Last July, Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (Belgian public-sector radio and television station broadcasting to the French-speaking CommunityRTBF) was ordered by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (the audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) to read out a statement, as the regulatory authority had found that the public-sector broadcasting channel had broadcast at 5.50 pm a programme called "Mortelle perversion", an episode in the German police series "Im Namen des Gesetzes" ("En quête de preuves" in French) with the "blue ring on a white circle" marker (parental agreement preferable)...