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In mid-October 1996, the Federal Government adopted a Bill on standards for the transmission of television signals (the Fernsehsignalübertragungsgesetz - Television Signal Transmission Act), which is intended to incorporate the EC's Standards Directive (Directive 95/47/EEC of the European Parliament and the Council of 24 October 1995 on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals) into German law. The purpose and content of the Bill are in line with the Directive. The intention is to promote introduction of the new television technologies and digital television programmes on...

The Telecommunications Act of 25 July 1996 came into force on 1 August 1996, with the exception of Sections 66 and 73 to 79 (we last reported on the Act in IRIS 1996-7: 9). On the basis of Sections 35 (5) and 37 (3) of the Act, the Federal Government issued the Network Access Order on 2 September. This specifies the conditions on which special access, including the connection of public telecommunications networks, is to be made possible. Under the Order, network operators with dominant positions on the telecommunication services market must provide access to their networks without discrimination...

On 22 August 1996, the Hannover District Court imposed a fine of more than 20 million DM (which is unusually high for Germany) on the television station, RTL plus Deutschland . RTL, licensed in the Land of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) to broadcast a full ( i.e., not specilizing in a particular type of) television programme covering Niedersachsen and the rest of the country, had shown 34 television films, nearly all of them interrupted by four commercial breaks, between October 1993 and June 1994. The court found that the films had been shown under a general title ( Der grosse TV-Roman ), had separate...

In IRIS 1996-7: 15, IRIS reported on a recent publication on the freedom of reception under French and European law. Now we can report that in the September issue of the German language magazine INFOSAT, an article was published on the freedom of reception in Germany. The article is based on a decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) of 9 February 1994 (1 BvR 1687/92, see : NJW 1994 Heft 17) on the right of a foreign inhabitant to receive broadcasts from his native country and focusses on the right of reception of tenants vis à vis owners.

other texts are available yet. On a motion from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the Federal Board of Examiners for Literature Likely to Pervert Young Persons has, for the first time, placed Internet material on the index of literature tending to pervert the young. This Internet material concerns several WWW pages issued by a neo-Nazi based in Canada, the contents of which glorify violence and deny National Socialist crimes. The Federal Ministry regards this as infringing the provisions of the Criminal Code, in particular Article 131 of the Criminal Code...