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On 18 November 1998, the European Commission introduced a proposal for a directive to establish a coherent legal framework for the development of electronic commerce within the European Union. The proposed directive aims at harmonising rules which enable the free movement of information society services for businesses and citizens. Information society services are defined as those normally provided against remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means and at the individual request of a customer. This definition encompasses services which are free to the recipient, e.g. funded by advertising...

Since the additional protocol to the Treaty of Amsterdam, there has been much discussion in Europe on the identity and strengthening of the public-sector audiovisual scene. The French Government is doing something about it. Before the end of the year it is to submit to a vote in Parliament a bill to reform the public audiovisual scene. The audiovisual regulatory body, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), has already delivered its opinion on the text of the bill. The provision which is undoubtedly the most significant concerns the method of financing the public-service television channels....

1. Hertel vs. Switzerland, 25 August 1998: the freedom of expression also extends to the criticising of certain economic goods, in casu microwave ovens. In 1992 in an article in the quarterly Journal Franz Weber referred a research paper of Mr. Hertel on the effects on human beings of the consumption of food prepared in microwave ovens. According to the journal the research findings of Mr. Hertel scientifically proved the (carcinogenic) danger of microwave ovens. In an editorial by Mr. Weber it was argued that microwave ovens should be banned. Some extracts of the research paper were also published....

The Telecommunications Market Commission ( Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones - CMT) is an independent authority whose tasks include safeguarding competition in the telecommunication market and in the audio-visual and interactive services markets. The CMT has the power to pass resolutions in order to ensure that those markets remain open to new entrants. Making use of those powers, the CMT has recently approved a Resolution that sets certain limits to advertising campaigns made by dominant operators in the telecommunications market and in the audio-visual and interactive services markets....

First report On 9. April 1998 the Council of Ministers discussed and passed the draft of a Radio and Television Act to the Parliament. On 24. September 1998 the Parliament approved the act. However, it has still not been signed by the President and is not yet in force.. The Radio and Television Act reflects the requirements of European law in the regulation of both public and commercial broadcasters. It regulates radio and television broadcasters, regardless of the means of transmission - cable, satellite or any other technical means. The act does not envisage restrictions relating to the form...