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On 2 November 2004, an administrative sanction of interruption of the program entitled "This is your chance" was imposed on the private television station "Alpha" by the Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (National Council of Radio and Television, Independent Regulatory Authority ­ ESR), two weeks after its first appearance on TV. The concept of the program, which may be considered as a "reality show", was based on a sort of competition of two unemployed persons aiming at taking a job offered by an employee, present at the studio. After having answered several questions posed by the speaker, it...

On 20 October 1973 a Co-Production Agreement was signed between France and Greece. It entered into force on 19 January 1978. The Agreement applies to cinematographic works (full-length as well as short films) made by one or more French (or resident in France) producers together with one or more Greek (or resident in Greece) producers. Third country producers may join the co-production, if their country is linked to France or Greece by a films co-production agreement. Financial contribution shall be at least 30%; under certain conditions, the minimum financial participation may be reduced to 20%....

On 14 October 2004, the European Commission announced its decision to take Greece to the European Court of Justice for imposing a ban on the installation and operation of electrical, electromechanical and electronic games, including computer games, in all public and private places (including cyber cafés). According to the Commission, the Greek law of 29 July 2002 is incompatible with the provisions of the EC Treaty on the free movement of goods and services and the freedom of establishment. On the one hand, it breaches the free movement of goods included in Article 28 of the EC Treaty by denying...

The institution of a General Secretariat for Communications with responsibility for audiovisual matters in place of the present Ministry for the Press and the Mass Media, which is now abolished, constitutes a significant structural change made by the Greek Government put in place by the legislative elections held on 7 March. According to Article 2, paragraph 2 of Act No. 3242/2004 (voted last May by the Greek Parliament), the new body will be one of the Prime Minister's offices and he may appoint a person to be responsible for supervising its operation. The Prime Minister has taken up this option...

On 21 April 2004, the European Commission announced its decision to refer to the European Court of Justice the six Member States that had still not fully implemented the new regulatory framework for electronic communications into their national law (i.e. Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands). The new framework was to be implemented by July 2003, but 8 Member States failed to meet this deadline and in October 2003 the Commission opened infringement proceedings against those States (see IRIS 2003-10: 5 and IRIS 2004-2: 4). Proceedings against two Member States, Spain (see...