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At the Conference of Ministers held in Brussels on February 25th and 26th, the G7 countries jointly decided to take a leading role in the setting up of a global information network. The participants agreed that their future collaboration would be based on eigth basic principles of which two aim especially at encouraging competition and private investment. It is expected that an official structure will be set up which, in the opinion of the participating countries, must take users' needs into account and allow the association to supply services at reasonable prices. Furthermore, this structure...

On 8 November 1994, a new co-production agreement between France and the United Kingdom was signed in Paris following the initial meeting of the Mixed Commission in London in March 1993. The new Agreement updates the 1965 Treaty, which was modified and prolonged by several exchanges of notes. The Agreement is not yet in force. The key objective of the revision of the Treaty is to achieve greater flexibility, given current film production practices. For example, provisions permit third country producers to take part in co-productions under the Agreement and 'participation' now extends to making...

On 24 January 1995, the French government issued a Decree fixing the rules applicable to different sound radio broadcasting and television services distributed by cable. The new rules, based on Articles 33 and 34,1 of the 1986 Freedom of Communications Act ( Loi relative à la liberté de communication) amend Decree No 92-882 of 1 September 1992. Firstly, the Decree declares the rules on advertising and sponsoring for private sound radio broadcasting services by means of terrestrial transmitters or by satellite, will now also apply to sound radio broadcasting services which are distributed by cable....

The judgement made by the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) on 18 February 1994 (JCP 1994: 22327, observations by Truchet; JCP 1994: 212, observations by Lienhard Petitot) remains in the memory. The Conseil d'Etat decided that the law, according to which local advertising was restricted to radios broadcasting local programmes, was out of the jurisdiction of the C.S.A. ( Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuelthe French Media Authority). This decision threw into confusion the work being carried out by the C.S.A. into restoring order on the FM wave band and also dealt a severe blow to its image, while...

One last ghost has returned to haunt the late television channel La Cinq. The Conseil d'Etat has just sentenced La Cinq to a fine of FRF 60 010 000 for failing to comply with the quotas for broadcasting audiovisual programmes made in the EEC and those made in France.