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On 26 June 1997, the European Commission adopted a decision establishing that the advertising monopoly awarded by the Flemish Community to the private commercial television station VTM is incompatible with Community law. The Flemish Executive Power had awarded to VTM, through decisions of 1987 and 1991 taken pursuant to the Flemish media legislation, an 18-year monopoly including the right to be the single private television station to target the entire Flemish Community and, in so doing, broadcast advertisements. This monopoly was challenged by a complaint lodged with the Commission by VT4, a...

A Broadcasting Bill has been submitted to the Parliament of the Republic of Estonia; at present the 1994 Broadcasting Act is still in force. The main differences between the two lie in the extension of the provisions concerning advertising. Thus in future advertising time may not exceed 15% of daily programme time (at present 20%), and in any one hour no more than 12 minutes of advertising may be broadcast. The scope for broadcasting direct sale offers will in future be limited to a maximum of 3 hours daily (limited at present to one hour). A further change involves the special provisions governing...

The recently amended Norwegian Broadcasting Regulation has entered into force. The new set of rules replaces several former provisions and unites all rules relating to broadcasting in one single Regulation. The amended Broadcasting Regulation implements the Directive on `Television Without Frontiers' in more detail than before. It explicitly stipulates that the broadcasters are obliged to reserve 50% of their transmission time for European productions, and 10% for independent productions. The already existing prohibition concerning the broadcasting of advertising in conjunction with childrens'...

In the appeal proceedings brought by the television channel RTL against the judgment given by the Hannover District Court (Amtsgericht Hannover) on 22 August 1996 (see IRIS 1996-10: 11), the Court of Appeal in Celle upheld the lower court's judgment on 16 June. This judgment is now final, which means that RTL will be ordered to pay a fine of close on 20 million DM, representing its earnings from the - in the court's view - unlawful broadcasting of advertising. In the dispute as to whether the programmes broadcast by RTL constituted a "series" within the meaning of the relevant broadcasting laws,...

The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers have finally adopted the new text of the "Television without Frontiers" directive, the main objective of which is to create the conditions necessary for the free movement of television broadcasts. Directive 97/36/EC, modifying Directive 89/552/EEC "Television without Frontiers" of 3 October 1989 was adopted on (the exact date will be published in the September issue of IRIS (issue No 1997-8) since at the closing date of this issue the President of the European Parliament was still to sign), at the end of two years of intensive negotiations between...