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On 3 December, the Flemish Parliament voted in the new decree aimed at reorganising the Flemish Media Council and which also allows for the setting up of a Flemish Media Commission. The Flemish Government's Bill (see IRIS 1997-10 : 12) was approved by Parliament with just a few amendments. Setting aside the regulatory power, which is not related to the audio-visual regulatory process and which remains the province of Parliament and the Government, everything else within the audio-visual sphere will come under the Media Council in its role as independent authority. The Council will be made up of...

The Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel (Cinema and Audiovisual Centre) of Belgium’s French Community and Quebec’s Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Society for the Development of Cultural Enterprises - SODEC) signed a protocol of understanding on 2 October 1997. This follows on from the co-operation agreement concluded between the government of Quebec and the Executive of Belgium’s French Community on 3 November 1982. According to this protocol, the parties will, by means of reciprocal exchanges of information, promote the visibility of their cinema and the production of...

On August 1997 the Flemish Parliament of Belgium presented a draft of a Decree providing for the creation of a new institution concerned with media policy in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The draft foresees in the establishment of a Flemish Public Broadcasting Commission (Commissariaat voor de Media) and in a new statute for the already existing Media Council (Vlaamse Mediaraad) which will entitle this organ with enlarged powers, as sole advisory organ for the Parliament and for the Government on media related issues. On the same time the Media Council will be subjected to a limitation in...

Belgian television viewers cannot look forward to seeing "Meurtre aux Champs" ("Murder in the Fields"), a film made for the famous "Strip-tease" programme, in the near future. The film is about the trial of a farmer who, in 1993, had killed the landlord of one of his fields. The farmer and his family had already managed to get the film suspended by a summary order injunction, which was then confirmed following an appeal. The District Court of Brussels, deciding on the merits of the case, banned the RTBF from broadcasting the film as long as the plaintiffs refused to give their permission. The...

On 17 July 1997 the Council of the French-speaking Community, and then on 21 July the Community's Government, adopted a decree concerning the official audio-visual monitoring body ( Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel - CSA ), which strengthens and rationalises the regulatory bodies which were set up in 1987. The decree of 21 July 1997 also changes the legal status of private radio broadcasters. Strengthening and rationalising the CSA The decree demonstrates a very strong desire to adapt the CSA in keeping with its tasks. Thus the CSA itself has just four members (one chairman and three vice-chairmen)...