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The Heads of State and Government of seven major industrialized nations and the President of the European Commission, have met in Halifax for their 21st annual Summit. They announced that they were committed to the successful completion of current negociations in services sectors and, in particular, significant liberalization in financial and telecommunications services. They will proceed with follow-up work foreseen in the Uruguay Round Final Act. They encourage work in areas such as technical standards, intellectual property; an immediate priority is the negotiation in the OECD of a high standard...

In March 1995, the Italian government issued decree n° 83, dated 20 March 1995 (see IRIS 1995-5: 9), providing for equal access to the media during election and referendum campaigns (known under the title " par condicio"). Subsequently, on 29 March 1995, Giuseppe Calderisi, Lorenzo strik Lievers and Elio Vito, the three members of the Italian parliament who initiated the referendums allowed by decisions of the Constitutional Court given in 1995 for trade, council elections and trade union levies, appealed against the Government and the Garantor (Garant) in order to obtain the suspension and subsequent...

On 20 March 1995 the Italian Government issued a Decree providing for equal and impartial treatment by the mass media of all politicians during election periods and at times of referendums. The Decree contains rules on electoral propaganda, electoral advertising, electoral information, polls and on the responsibility of journalists and programme directors.

Tribunale Amministrativo Regional de Lazio (Regional Administrative The Second Chamber of the Court, Lazio) has made reference to the Court of Justice of the European Communities for a preliminary ruling in a case of a number of broadcasters against the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. The questions put to the Court are: 1. Is Directive 89/552/EEC (OJ EC 17.10.1989 No L 298: 23 - "Television without Frontiers" Directive) and, in particular, Articles 1 (b) and 18 thereof, to be construed as meaning that the expression `forms of advertisements such as direct offers to the public' in Article...

In a statement dated 20 February 1995, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has made a contribution to the G7 meeting on the information society. The statement, titled "Broadcasters' role in the information society", expresses the views of the national broadcasters which are members of the EBU, on the development of the information society. The EBU inter alia points out that the cultural, political and social dimensions of the information society must not take second place to the technological and economic aspects of the electronic superhighways. According to the EBU, a purely market driven information...