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On 30 September 2004 the Département fédéral de l'intérieur (Federal Department of Home Affairs - DFI) adopted an order regulating the conditions for awarding the Swiss Cinema Prize. The order specifically covers the conditions for participation, the procedure for nominating candidates, and the designation of prize-winners. The Swiss Cinema Prize was created in 1998 on the joint initiative of the Office fédéral de la culture (Federal Office of Culture - OFC), the Locarno International Film Festival, the " Journées Cinématographiques " in Solothurn, the " Visions du Réel " international cinema festival,...

The Swiss Federal Council has given the cantons, the political parties and the organisations concerned until the end of January 2005 to consider its draft revision of part of the Federal Act of 9 October 1992 on copyright and neighbouring rights (LDA). The main aim of the revision is to adapt the protection afforded to literary and artistic works to the new technologies for communication and digital transmission. According to the Federal Council, the measures proposed are intended to maintain a fair balance between the interests of the various parties involved (creators, the cultural economy and...

Since 1 April 2004, the parallel importing of DVDs and videocassettes into Switzerland is authorised as soon as the film in question is no longer being shown as a current film in cinema theatres. Thus the entry into force of the new Article 12(1)(a) of the Federal Act of 9 October 1992 on copyright and neighbouring rights (Copyright Act ­ LDA) marks the end of a lively controversy produced by the introduction of the previous version of this statutory provision when the Federal Cinema Act of 14 December 2001 was adopted. The old version of Article 12(1)(a) of the LDA prohibited the parallel importing...

On 19 May 2004 Switzerland and the European Union (EU) reached a political agreement on the second round of their bilateral negotiations. The agreement covers nine topics, including extension of the agreement on the free movement of people to the new EU member States, taxation on savings and combating fraud in indirect taxation (Customs duty, VAT, etc). Completion of these negotiations will also enable Switzerland to rejoin the MEDIA programme for encouraging the cinema industry. Professionals in Switzerland's cinematographic sector will once again be able to participate fully in all elements of...

In its decision of 11 January 2004, the Eidg. Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (Federal Department for Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication - UVEK) clarified certain issues concerning the boundary between the responsibility of the programme supervisory body and the licensing authority. The UVEK ruled that the Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz für Radio und Fernsehen (Independent Broadcasting Complaints Authority UBI) was responsible for examining the compatibility of advertising spots with the ban on political advertising, since this question affected key aspects...