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The regional broadcasting corporations grouped together in ARD have jointly lodged a complaint against the private television broadcaster PRO SIEBEN with the Regional Court in Stuttgart because the broadcaster regularly contravenes the regulation on advertising time contained in paragraph 4 of the Agreement between the Federal States on broadcasting in united Germany (RfStV) when broadcasting films. Under this provision, films and television films other than series, light entertainment and documentaries, and lasting more than 45 minutes may only be interrupted once in any one complete 45-minute...

In IRIS 1995-10: 10, we reported on a draft law of the Ukraine High Council of 26.04.1996 amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act of 21.12.1993. Since then, on 02.06.1996, the law amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act has been adopted. The amending law redefines and supplements inter alia the provisions concerning the definition of basic concepts (§ 1), the jurisdiction of the State broadcasting bodies (§ 4), the national broadcasting council (§ 5), anti-monopoly regulations (§ 7), the structure of national broadcasting (§ 11) and the State broadcasting corporation (§ 12). The amended Broadcasting...

On 7 May 1996, the European Commission amended the proposal for a revision of the 1989 "Television without Frontiers" Directive which it presented to the European Parliament and the Council on 31 May 1995. The amendments were made on the basis of the first reading in the European Parliament which resulted in a Resolution on 14 February 1996 ( see: IRIS 1996-3: 6). Parliament approved the Commission's proposals subject to a number of amendments it had made. The amended proposal also takes into account the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee of 13 September 1995 (CES 972/95) and the discussions...

The Minister-Presidents of the Länder have agreed in Berlin on the draft of an Agreement between the Länder (Federal States) on media services. The draft was submitted to the groups concerned for the first time on 3.3.1996. From January 1997, this would replace the previously applicable Agreement between the Länder on interactive videotext. The Länder have proposed their own unified regulations for the new services equivalent to the federation's planned legislation on the multi-media. This would cover all services not included in the Agreement between the Länder on broadcasting. Thus the Agreement...

On 2 April 1996 the Dutch Parliament approved the proposed change to the Media Act, which now allows commercial broadcasting local and regional level. This result is attained by removing the limitation that commercial broadcasters have to broadcast nationwide. The new Media Act also renders permanent the up to 1 January 1996 experimental advertising regime, by which the local and regional broadcasters were allowed to broadcast advertisements and keep the advertising income themselves. Furthermore, the modified Media Act appoints the Dutch Media Authority supervisory power in conflicts concerning...