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In December 1998, the Minister for Education and Culture, Mr. Björn Bjarnason, presented to the Icelandic parliament - the Althingi - a bill to modify the Broadcasting Act of 1985. The main purpose of the bill is to update the existing legislative framework of radio and television broadcasting and to introduce new concepts and incorporate new technological changes that have emerged in the audiovisual landscape in recent years, in accordance with the Television Without Frontiers Directive. It is noteworthy that the bill concerns itself only with broadcasting within the private sector. A separate...

The German Government and the European Commission together organised a European Ministerial Conference on "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential" in Bonn from 6 to 8 July 1997. It ended with the adoption of a declaration, signed by participating ministers from EU, EFTA and Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus. In this declaration, the ministers attempt to define the role of both the public and private sectors, the aim being to strike an optimum balance between the opportunities and the dangers inherent in the rapid development of the information technologies....

In its advisory opinion of 16 June 1995, the EFTA Court has ruled that the «Television without Frontiers» directive (89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989) - which is integrated into the EEA Agreement - must be interpreted as precluding a general prohibition imposed on an advertiser, whereby he is prevented from showing an advertisement contained in a television programme of a broadcaster established in another EEA State. The prejudicial question to the EFTA Court arose as a result of a disagreement between the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman and the Norwegian subsidiary companies of Mattel and Lego. The toy-manufacturers...

On 2 December 1994, the EEA Joint Committee decided to amend Annex X to the EEA Agreement, the Annex dealing with audio-visual services. After point 1 (Council Directive 89/552/EEC) of the Annex, is added: "ACTS OF WHICH THE CONTRACTING PARTIES SHALL TAKE NOTE The Contracting Parties take note of the contents of the following acts: 2. 394 Y 0702(02): Council resolution 94/C 181/02 of 27 June 1994 on a framework for Community policy on digital video broadcasting (OJ No C 181, 2.7.1994, p.3)."

In a series of Recommendations the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the European Economic Area expresses that, in principle, it supports the report on Europe and the global information society, presented by the Bangemann Group and calls for the establishment of a European authority in telecommunications, information and audio-visual services. Furthermore, the Committee urges the EEA Parties to establish a common regulatory framework for the protection of intellectual property rights, privacy and security of information and suggests the creation of regional investment funds for the audio-visual...