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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...

The RTBF has been a shareholder in Canal+ Belgique ever since its launch in 1989. Indeed it was a requirement that all pay television companies were to allow the RTBF (either directly or through one of its subsidiaries) a capital holding of at least 26% or a blocking minority holding. At the end of 1999 it was announced that the Defi Group, one of the other Belgian shareholders in Canal+ Belgique, had sold its holding in the channel. The RTBF was then tempted to sell its holding at a comparable price in order to make extremely useful capital gains. In May 2000, Canal+ Benelux BV acquired the...

In a ruling of 19 May 2000, the Brussels Court of First Instance dealt with a case involving a hidden camera. On 2 October 1998 the applicant, Mrs P., had attended the recording of a talk-show on Flemish TV channel VTM, entitled "I'm looking for a millionaire", which concerned people attracted by money. Once the recording was officially over, the studio audience, including Mrs P., and the programme guests, including one man who was supposed to be a millionaire, had been invited by VTM for a drink. It was then that, by means of a hidden camera. Mrs P. had been filmed in conversation with the supposed...