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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.

The Flemish Minister responsible for the media has recently made public the results of a study on the technical possibilities of allocating radio frequencies for two commercial radio stations in the Flemish Community. After a coordination procedure of the new available radio frequencies and after modification of some provisions of the Flemish Broadcasting Decree by Parliament, the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority) will be in a position to allocate the new radio licences and FM-frequencies. The commercial TV-broadcasters VTM and VT4 already have showed strong interest...

Since 1991 the Flemish Broadcasting legislation, with some modifications, stipulates a ban on advertising immediately before and after children's programmes. In a time period of 5 minutes before and after programmes targetting children under 12, no advertising or sponsorship messages are allowed. For many years the commercial broadcasting organisation VTM and its second channel Kanaal 2 have been opposed to this provision of the Broadcasting Decree and have sought the abrogation of the 5-minute rule. A decree proposed in the Flemish Parliament some months ago, however, went in the opposite direction...