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The national film institutes of the 15 Member States of the European Union have made a common declaration on the importance of State aid for European films. This is the first time the film institutes have made a common statement. The national film institutes are publicly funded and were founded to support national and European film culture. In this common declaration the institutes express their concerns regarding the necessity for State aid for European films. The institutes are worried that the audio-visual sector in Europe will be left solely to the chances of free market forces. In the declaration,...

The South Eastern Europe Cinema Network (SEE) was set up in 2000 on the initiative of the Greek Film Centre (a state-owned organisation attached to the Greek Ministry of Culture). It promotes and supports the national film industry of eleven Southeast European states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, Cyprus). The aim is to provide support for the development, production and advertising of the member states’ films both within and outside the network. A support fund for co-productions...

After a long waiting period, Act 2683/2000 on the Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorassis (National Radio and Television Council - NRTC (see IRIS 2001-1: 9)) has come into force, with the appointment by the Minister of the Press and the Mass Media of seven members to form the new board of the NRTC. The new members have been selected unanimously by the Diaskepsi ton Proedron (Conference of Presidents), a special body of the Greek Parliament (chaired by the President) whose members represent all the political parties, and which is responsible for organising Parliament's work and supervising the independent...

A number of Member States of the Council of Europe have either signed or ratified treaties of relevance to the audiovisual sector since the publication in IRIS 2002-5 of the table of signatures and ratifications of such treaties. - On 14 May, the Netherlands became the eighth country to accede to the European Convention on the Legal Protection of Services based on, or consisting of, Conditional Access (see IRIS 2000-9: 3). Having signed this Convention on 24 January 2001, Romania proceeded to become the first country to ratify it on 26 August 2002. The Convention will enter into force upon ratification...

The new legislation concerning the National Radio and Television Council (ESR) and the other authorities in the audiovisual sector (Act no. 2863/2000 - see IRIS 2001-1: 9) provides for self-regulation mechanisms by instituting self-regulatory bodies in respect of radio and television services. Under the new legislation, holders of authorisations (both private radio and television channels broadcasting without encryption and suppliers of encrypted radio and/or television services) must conclude multi-lateral contracts in which their parties define the rules and ethical principles governing the programmes...