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With its ruling on 22 March 1995, the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) settled the dispute between the German Länder (federal states) and the Federation over the EEC Directive on "Television without frontiers" (89/552/EEC). Eigth German federal Länder have added their support to a lawsuit brought by the government of the Land of Bavaria and which has been pending since 1989. The proceedings dealt essentially with the question whether, by endorsing the EEC Directive, the Federal government had infringed the jurisdiction concerning broadcasting matters...

During the summer of 1995 in Stuttgart it is planned to undertake a pilot project named "Baden-Wurttemberg Multimedia". 4000 households within the Stuttgart area will take part in this large scale test organised by the Ministry of Economics. The test area was chosen not only because of the representative population cross-section but also because it possesses one of the best cable network installations. The test will cover both private and business needs. For private use it is planned to test, amongst others, video on demand, telelearning, teleshopping and also publisher information services. For...

On November 23rd 1993 the biggest private television channels in the German federal republic took the decision to set up a voluntary review body - "Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen e.V." (FSF). This organisation, which is managed by the broadcasters themselves, seeks to control violence and sex as portrayed on television, following a recent public outcry on this matter. The aim of the association, which came into being officially on April 1st 1994 in Berlin, is to limit the portrayal of violence and sex on television in such a way that they are not prejudicial to the moral, spiritual and...

In the above case, the Bavarian Supreme Court turned down an application by a Turkish expatriot (the claimant) to install a satellite dish to receive foreign broadcasts. The claimant acquired German nationality in 1982 and renounced his Turkish nationality at the same time. He owns his own flat in a large apartment complex where a Turkish channel is available by cable. The claimant put up a satellite dish on his balcony to receive more Turkish channels by satellite,and as a result, the other flat owners in the complex successfully brought a case against the man. A deciding factor in the case was...

In a statement dated 20 February 1995, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has made a contribution to the G7 meeting on the information society. The statement, titled "Broadcasters' role in the information society", expresses the views of the national broadcasters which are members of the EBU, on the development of the information society. The EBU inter alia points out that the cultural, political and social dimensions of the information society must not take second place to the technological and economic aspects of the electronic superhighways. According to the EBU, a purely market driven information...