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On 11 July 1996, the Saarland Broadcasting Authority (LAR), Deutsche Telekom and the Saarland Prime Minister's Office concluded an outline agreement on the investigation and testing of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as part of the Saarland's multimedia project. In addition to using digital technology for broadcasting, the project will centre on testing and introducing data broadcasting and other additional services (radio-related and other data services), which will be made available by the participating broadcasters and other providers. Possibilities of co-ordinating blocks and exchanging programmes...

As already reported in IRIS 1996-6: 5, the German Federal Government is preparing a multimedia Act to regulate information and communication services. It has now produced a ministry draft of an Information and Communication Services Act ( Informations- und Kommunikationsdienste-Gesetz - IuKDG) (28.06.96). Within the Federation's powers in the matter of economic and telecommunications policy, the Act sets out to establish a regulatory instrument which takes the form of a Statute (als Artikelgesetz konzipiertes Regelungswerk) uniform, clear and reliable framework regulations for the multimedia field....

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. The listing of when States became Party to the Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite (printed on page 8) is, however, not correct. Accidentily it reproduces the dates on which States became Party to the Berne Convention for the protection of copyright of literary and artistic works (as printed on page 7). The correct date on which States became Party...

The Land Presidents have reached agreement with Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the division of responsibilities for legislating on the multi-media. The Länder will conclude a national agreement on media services, which is to take efect on 1 January 1997. This is intended to ensure that economic development of this sector can proceed with the necessary legal and planning security. The agreement will cover a graded regulating system for media services intended for the general public which do not require licensing or prior notification. It will also guarantee free access to the transmission channels....

The complete text of the Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting, an agreement between the German Länder (federal states) on broadcasting, incorporating the first amendments of 24 June 1991, is now available from the Observatory in five languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Russian. The text is accompanied by an introduction on broadcasting law in Germany.