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In its decision of 21 April 1999, the European Commission approved the new German film-production aid scheme. Introduced by an earlier notification, the proceedings, in respect of the control of state aid in accordance with Articles 92 and 93 of the EC Treaty (Art. 87 ff. as set out in the Amsterdam Treaty), concerned the extension of the current aid scheme for the German film industry for a further five-year period, providing annual aid of over EUR 20 million. Following the publication of the new Act on Film Production Aid ( Filmförderungsgesetz - FFG ), the German Government had notified the...

In the context of the German EU Council Presidency, an expert seminar on «voluntary self-regulation in the media sector at the European level» was held in Saarbrücken 19-21 April 1999. Discussions took place in two working groups. The first one dealt with «self-regulation within the framework of national media systems from the point of view of the European Community», whereas the second one discussed the «requirements and chances of self-regulation in the European Community». The originally intended designation of the final document as «Saarbrücken Declaration» gave rise to objections from some...

The Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post ( RegTP) has claimed that the way Deutsche Telekom AG organized charges for the feeding of programmes into broad band cable networks was discriminatory. Responding to complaints from various broadcasting companies and private broadcasters, the RegTP examined the provisions of the regulation on fees, applied by Deutsche Telekom AG, contained in Section 30 of the Telecommunications Act. It emerged that the leading German network operator applied different fees, depending on how the programmes were transmitted. Charges made for the feeding...

Complaints procedures have been brought against both RTL and DSF concerning alleged breaches of advertising regulations. The supervisory Lower Saxony Regional Media Authority ( NLM) made a complaint about the splitting of the screen between rounds of a boxing match shown on RTL. On 27 February 1999, RTL twice split the screen between rounds of a boxing match into a large advertising window and a smaller window showing pictures of the boxing venue. According to previous interpretations of the rule on separation of advertising and programme material, set out in § 7.3.2 of the Agreement between the...

Following its meeting on 23 March 1998, the General Congress of the Association of Regional Media Authorities ( ALM) stated that, although the voluntary code of conduct for daytime talkshows (see IRIS 1998-9:13), drawn up by the Association of Private Broadcasting and Telecommunication Operators ( VPRT), had initially had a positive impact, a significant rise in the number of problematic programmes had since been noted. Although the number of programmes dealing exclusively with sex-related topics had fallen, the main problem now was that talkshow guests were verbally abusing each other in a degrading...