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A broadcasting company, Sveriges Television AB, domiciled in Sweden, broadcast from Sweden on Swedish television a documentary produced by a journalist who was also domiciled in Sweden. The documentary was made with the intention of showing the restrictions on freedom of speech in Norway. The documentary contained accusations about Norwegian seal hunters violating Norwegian hunting regulations. The documentary was to a great extent based on a Norwegian film, which a Norwegian court had prevented from being shown to the public. The programme was broadcast twice and could be received by 630,000 people...

By its decision of 15 February 2002, the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority) has decided to recognise the SBS-broadcasting station VT4 as a Flemish broadcasting organisation. From 1 March 2002, VT4 will operate under the Flemish Broadcasting Act 1995. VT4's licence from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in the United Kingdom also ceased to be valid on 1 March 2002. Until recently, VT4, as a British broadcaster with its programmes targeting the Flemish Community, was operating with an ITC licence in accordance with the UK Broadcasting Act. Since February 1995,...

On 20 December 2001, the heads of the German Bundesländer agreed to and signed the proposed amendments contained in the 6th Agreement Amending the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Broadcasting - RStV). Once they have been adopted by the parliaments of the Länder, the revised versions of the RStV, the Rundfunkfinanzierungs-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on the Funding of Broadcasting - RFinStV) and the Mediendienste-Staatsvertrag (Inter-State Agreement on Media Services - MDStV) should enter into force on 1 July 2002. The provisions on media concentration contained in the RStV...

On 13 June 2001, the Polish Committee for European Integration adopted amendments to the Broadcasting Act, which were accepted by the Council of Ministers on 29 June 2001. The draft is designed to transpose Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities, as amended by the Directive 97/36/EC (The Directive "Television Without Frontiers"), in the scope of jurisdiction, definition of European works and European quotas. The Broadcasting Act had been amended...

Adopted on the basis of Article 33 of the Act of 30 September 1986 (as amended), the Decree of 1 September 1992 sets down the obligations incumbent on each category of radio and television services distributed by cable. A decree adopted on 9 July this year amends the text in two ways. The purpose of the first set of amendments is to ensure that the 1992 Decree is compatible with Community law. On 19 April 1999, the European Commission applied to the Court of Justice of the European Communities claiming that French regulations failed to comply with a number of provisions of the "Television Without...