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The Vlaamse Geschillenraad voor radio en televisie (Flemish Council for Disputes in Radio and Television) for the second time held that the Flemish public broadcasting organisation (VRT) breached its obligation under the decreten betreffende de radio-omroep en de televisie (Flemish Broadcasting Act). This time, the Council found that a radio programme had ridiculed in a discriminatory way the essentials of Christian belief, namely the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. The Council of Disputes recognised the existence of the freedom of expression for broadcasters to criticise and to impart ideas...

By its Decree of 30 March 1999, the Flemish Parliament has decided to establish a new council to guarantee the protection of minors in application of Article 22 of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. This new Council, the Vlaamse Kijk- en Luisterraad (Flemish Viewing and Listening Council for Radio and Television"the Council") will be composed of 2 judges and 7 experts inter alia in the field of child psychology and pedagogy. The Council will be empowered to take decisions on its own initiative or subsequent to a complaint. A conviction by the Council can lead to a warning and a request...

A few days before the local elections of 8 October, the website of the public broadcasting organisation VRT announced a special programme on the election campaign in Louvain. It was announced that in a programme of 4 October two candidates for mayor, Mr. Tobback (former Minister of Internal Affairs, and mayor of Louvain at the time of the campaign) and Mr. Daems (Minister responsible for Telecommunications and leader of the biggest opposition party in Louvain) would participate in a debate. Mr. Devlies, who considered himself also a candidate for mayor, requested in a summary proceeding on 4 October...

On 31 August 2000, Belgium’s French Community and the Italian Republic signed a three-year renewable agreement aimed at supporting the co-production of cinematographic works. According to the agreement, cinematographic works co-produced in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in it are regarded as domestically produced and thus reap the benefits associated with this classification. The conditions for enjoying these benefits are as follows: scriptwriters, producers, directors, performers and technicians must have Belgian or Italian nationality or be a national of a European Union member...

After a delay of more than 3 years, the Flemish Community implemented Directive 95/47/EC of 24 October 1995 on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals (see IRIS 1996-2: 5). This Directive was only partly implemented by an earlier decision of the Flemish Government of 13 October 1998. The Decree of the Flemish Parliament of 3 March 2000 now has fully implemented the European rules on digital television.