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According to Article 72, para. 2 under b of the Radio and Television Order (Radio- und Fernsehverordnung - RTVV), local or regional broadcasters are required to pay the PTT companies a monthly fee of CHF 4 per 500 (or fraction thereof) radio or television receivers which are licensed in the area covered by them. The Federal Court held that these administrative charges do not infringe the constitutional principles of covering costs and equivalence. Nevertheless, the delegated legislative power may not be overstepped. According to the position adopted by the PTT companies the annual total income...

In the opinion of the Independent Complaints Board for Radio and Television (Unabhängiger Beschwerde Instanz UBI), the Swiss television broadcaster DRS did not infringe programme law with the broadcast entitled `Jewish money and Nazi gold'. This was broadcast on 3 July 1997, and comprised three sections: in an introduction the editor dissociated himself to some extent from the film shown in the second section - a BBC documentary produced in conjunction with the Swiss television channel DRS - which was followed by a discussion. The film had already aroused considerable controversy in Switzerland...

On 22 August 1996, Swiss television (DRS) showed the Belgian film, Man beisst Hund ("Man bites Dog") on the programme, Delikatessen. In the film, a three-man camera crew follows a professional killer, who brutally murders over 25 people on impulse and also commits a rape. His savage and cold-blooded acts are unflinchingly portrayed in scenes of graphic violence. Article 55 bis, para. 2 of the Swiss Constitution regulates the reponsibilities of radio and television, and specifically assigns a cultural role to programme organisers, who are required to protect cultural values. However, the Independent...

In January 1994, the Association against Animal Factories (Verein gegen Tierfabriken - VgT) asked The Television Advertising Co. (AG für das Werbefernsehen - AGW), a subsidiary of the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG) to show a television spot highlighting the cruel conditions in which working animals were kept and urging viewers to eat less meat. But the AGW refused, because of the spot's "political content", and also because the association was not prepared to rework it to bring it into line with the requirements of the Radio and Television Act (Radio- und Fernsehgesetz - RTVG). The...

The German Government and the European Commission together organised a European Ministerial Conference on "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential" in Bonn from 6 to 8 July 1997. It ended with the adoption of a declaration, signed by participating ministers from EU, EFTA and Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus. In this declaration, the ministers attempt to define the role of both the public and private sectors, the aim being to strike an optimum balance between the opportunities and the dangers inherent in the rapid development of the information technologies....