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By Ministerial Decree of 17 September 1993 "Coditel-Brabant", a Brussels cable operator, was prohibited to transmit the programme "TNT/Cartoon Network" on its cable network. In a court action against the Ministerial Decree and against the refusal of cable transmission by Coditel based on this Decree, it was argued by Turner's TNT/Cartoon Network that the Ministerial Decree was infringing the Directive on "Television without Frontiers" of 3 October 1989, which prohibits Member States to restrict retransmission on their territory of television broadcasts from other Member States of the European Union...

The State Council, the high administrative Court in Belgium, has ruled in a judgment of 2 March 1995 (Case No 51.964) that VT4 is to be given access to the Flemish cable networks. By Ministerial Order of 16 January 1995 the Flemish Minister of Cultural Affairs refused to permit the Flemish cable networks to distribute the television programmes of VT4. A decision of 24 January 1995 by the President of the 4th Chamber of the State Council had already provisionally suspended the Ministerial Order. In its judgment of 2 March the State Council affirmed the suspension. The Ministerial Order is now suspended...

To make room for the disputed distribution of the programme of the new Flemish private commercial broadcaster VT4 of the Skandinavian/American media company SBS, cable operators in the Brussels area have decided to stop the distribution of the programme of Nederland 3, one of the public stations of the Netherlands. This decision has lead to potests of, on the one hand, the Government of the Netherlands and, on the other hand, Dutch Members of the European Parliament and journalists. The Dutch Government has pointed out to the Flemish Minister of Culture, Mr. H. Weckx, that according to the cultural...

On the basis of the Cable Decree of 4 May 1994, the Flemish Minister of Cultural Affairs, Mr. H. Weck has, by Ministerial Order ( Ministerieel Besluit) of 16 January 1995, banned the distribution of VT4 by Flemish cable networks. VT4 is a private commercial broadcasting organisation, which broadcasts from the United Kingdom television programmes which are specifically aimed at Vlaanderen (the Flemish Community of Belgium) since 1 February of this year. The Minister refused VT4 access to the Flemish cable networks, firstly, because he considers VT4 to be a Flemish broadcasting organisation which...

On 6 December 1994, the Media Commission discussed a White Paper of the Flemish Council on the future of broadcasting in the Flemish Community. The points of view of the members of the Commission as well as those of the Flemish Minister of Culture have now been published. Their point of view also takes into account the possible influence of European developments on Flemish media policy. During the debate, the Minister proposed to establish four working parties on the restructuring of the media landscape: (I) the restructuring of the public broadcaster of the Flemish Community, BRTN; (II) local...