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The European Commission published its thirteenth report on monitoring the application of Community law in October 1996. It covers the year 1995. Nearly two hundred pages long, it lists all treaty violation proceedings, and also contains a trend analysis which shows that, although the number of actions has remained stable, the number of those brought ex officio has increased. In a growing number of cases, disputes are settled without involving the Court. The Commission notes the following points, among others: Audio-visual media: The "Television without Frontiers" Directive (89/552/EEC) is implemented...

In IRIS 1996-10: 10, we reported on both the common position adopted by the EU Council on 19 March 1996on amending Directive 84/450/EEC on misleading advertising, so as to include comparative advertising, and on the Decision by the European Parliament of 23 October 1996 to amend certain elements of this common position. On 13 December 1996, the European Commission published its Opinion on the amendments introduced by the European Parliament. The Commission indicates that 8 of the amendments would be acceptable but rejects 8 other amendments. Two of the rejected amendments concern the insertion...

In a judgement of 12 December 1996, the Court of Justice of the EC interpreted two provisions of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The intervention of the Court was requested by the Regional Administrative Tribunal in Rome ( Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale ) in the course of a proceeding between some national and local private broadcasters, on one side, and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, on the other side. The plaintiffs sought the anullment of the Decree No 581/93 adopted by the Government in 1993, concerning television advertising and sponsorship. According to the...

Article 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 was invoked recently by the National Heritage Secretary under which a foreign satellite service may be proscribed if, in the view of the Independent Television Commission, it is regarded as unacceptable and the Secretary of State believes that the order is in the public interest and compatible with the UK's international obligations. The order, which must be laid before Parliament, was against Rendez-vous; it proscribes the service in the UK, i.e. it makes the supply of smart-cards and programme material, advertising for or on the channel or any other service...

On 22 August 1996, the Hannover District Court imposed a fine of more than 20 million DM (which is unusually high for Germany) on the television station, RTL plus Deutschland . RTL, licensed in the Land of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) to broadcast a full ( i.e., not specilizing in a particular type of) television programme covering Niedersachsen and the rest of the country, had shown 34 television films, nearly all of them interrupted by four commercial breaks, between October 1993 and June 1994. The court found that the films had been shown under a general title ( Der grosse TV-Roman ), had separate...