Search results : 1359

In a judgment given at last instance on 11 December 1997 - KVR 7/96 - the Monopolies Division of the Federal Court (Kartellsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs - BGH) upheld the Federal Cartel Office's (Bundeskartellamt) decision forbidding the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund - DFB) to centralise the marketing of television rights to the home matches of German teams competing for the European Cup and the European Cup-Winners' Cup. The association's application for permission to establish a cartel for rationalisation purposes, in accordance with Section 5, para. 2 and 3, in conjunction...

The provisional common guideline of the regional media authorities on broadcasting time for independent third parties in accordance with Section 31 of the Agreement between the Federal States on Broadcasting (RfStV), agreed by the Conference of Directors of the Regional Media Authorities in January (see IRIS 1997-3: 13 and IRIS 1997-2: 13), has not received the necessary approval of all the supervisory bodies of the regional media authorities. The Broadcasting Commission of the North Rhine-Westphalia Broadcasting Authority rejected the regulations contained in the guideline, pointing out that they...

The regional media authorities have announced that an advertisement for the "Euro" (a single European currency) produced by the Federal Government in conjunction with the European Parliament and the European Commission is not permissible as it exceeds the limits for political advertising. The private German broadcasting companies Pro Sieben and Kabel 1 had submitted two advertisements on the euro to the relevant working party on advertising at the regional media authorities to check whether they were admissible at law. One of the two was declared inadmissible as it exceeded the limits for political...

On 27 May 1997, the Association of Private Broadcasting and Telecommunications Operators (VPRT) submitted a complaint to the European Commission in Brussels, alleging "serious breaches of European Community law". The VPRT sees these breaches in the fact that the sub-programmes, "Kinderkanal" and "Phoenix", organised by the public channels, ARD and ZDF , are financed from licence fees, although they cannot be regarded as forming part of basic programme provision. Among other things, the association claims that funding these programmes from licence fees violates the regulations on competition contained...

In a decision on 18 September 1997 the board of the Hamburg regional media authority (Hamburgische Landesmedienanstalt - HAM) prohibited the pay-TV broadcaster Premiere from broadcasting five allegedly pornographic films on the grounds of infringement of Section 3, paragraph 1, point 4 of the Agreement between the federal States on Broadcasting (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag - RFStV). In doing so, the HAM feels it has achieved its aim to stop Premiere broadcasting any more films which contradict the ban on pornography. The company broadcast a number of films of this type in January and February 1997....