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A major item under discussion is whether a new private commercial broadcasting organisation (VT4) licensed by the United Kingdom, will be given access to the Flemish cable networks. Refering to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the TV10 case, the Flemish Minister of Culture actually is denying access to the cable networks in the Flemish Community. In the TV10 judgment the Court of Justice ruled that the provisions of the EEC Treaty on freedom to provide services are to be interpreted as not precluding a Member State from treating a broadcasting body constituted under the law of another...

The Flemish private commercial television, V.T.M. ( Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij) has obtained a licence to start with a second channel. V.T.M. is regarded as an important instrument for the promotion of the audiovisual industry in the Flemish Community. The participation by Flemish newspapers and magazines within the commercial television organisation is formally organised and stimulated in order to help the press to survive and to protect media pluralism in the Flemish Community. At the same time, the "monopoly" of V.T.M. as the only private TV broadcaster for the Flemish Community, protected...

In a policy document unter the title "A future perspective for the media policy in the Flemish Community", the Flemish Minister of Culture has proposed a set of new policy options especially with regard to public broadcasting in the Flemish Community. BRTN, the public broadcasting organisation, needs to be better organised in order to fulfill its task as public service. More autonomy, more efficiency, a new and more flexible employment statute, an internal reorganisation of the board of governors and a new management based on business-units must be the instruments to let the public broadcasting...

On 27 July 1994 a new Belgian Copyright Act was published in the official journal, the Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad. Following this publication, the Act would have entry into force on 1 August 1994. However, as it turned out, the official journal published the version approved by the Chamber but not by the Senate. The Senate made many textual changes to the version adopted by the Chamber, especially to the Flemish version but also to the French version. In an attempt to rectify the accidental publication the responsible Minister published a list of errata in the official journal. Belgian...

On 29 November 1994, the President of the Tribunal de Commerce of Brussels decided to request a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Communities in an appeal by the Belgian State against a court decision of 26 October 1993, allowing the Belgian cable operator, Coditel Brabant, to distribute the programmes of TNT and Cartoon Network. The Tribunal asks the Court of Justice the following questions: 1. Is the non-domestic satellite licence granted by the United Kingdom to TNT/Cartoon Network in line with the requirements of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive and does...