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In a decision (arrêt) of 11 April 1995, the Court of Cassation declared that the mandatory agent, responsible for drawing up a contract between a performers' association and certain television channels for the radio and television broadcasting of sound recordings, is held personally liable (liability in tortresponsabilité délictuelle) for any prejudice caused to the third party during the course of his or her mission. In this case in point, the fault committed for which the agent is held liable (faute détachable), which can equally well be a failure to act as much as a positive but mistaken action,...

The Decision (arrêt) of the Court of Cassation of 3 April 1995, upheld the ruling of the Court of Appeal which found the Editor and a journalist of the satirical weekly guilty of publishing of tax documents of Mr.Jacques Calvet. The offence in question was not concealment of theft or of information but "concealment of breach of professional secrecy", through the concealment of photocopies of part of three tax notices of the managing director of one of the main French car manufacturers. The Court found that an employee of the French tax department was behind the disclosure of the tax documents and...

In IRIS 1995-5 : 12 we wrote that the Minister of the Interior and Regional Planning had banned Egyptian theologist Youssef Qaradhawi's book"What's lawful and unlawful in Islam", published by éditions Al Qalam in Paris. The book was considered as a foreign written work of a nature likely to provoke public disorder. We stated in the article that the Minister of the Interior was ready to accept the appeal made by the Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur. By way of his Decision (Arrêté) of 9 May 1995, the Minister of the Interior, following representations made by the publishers,...

The recommendation refers to coverage of news both relating to and not relating to the forthcoming local elections. One of the items reminds candidates who work in the audiovisual communication services of the need to be particularly attentive that any radio or television appearances they might make should not in any way affect the rights of candidates to equal air time and consequently the authenticity of the election. On 10 May, the opinion poll commission drew attention to the fact that the regulations of the 1977 law relating to the publication and broadcasting of opinion polls were applicable...

The aim of the Convention is to facilitate transfrontier transmission and retransmission of television programme services. The Convention includes : - general provisions relating to its field of application, freedom of reception and retransmission, undertakings made by the transmitting Parties, transparency ; - provisions relating to programming, concerning the responsibilities of the broadcaster, the right of reply, public access to major events, cultural objectives ; - advertising and sponsoring - mutual assistance, the Permanent Committee, amendments and alleged breaches of this convention...