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Article 2 of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive (89/552/EEC) permits Member States to restrict the provision of broadcasting services from the territory of another Member State only in case of transmissions which manifestly, seriously and gravely infringe the rules relating to, inter alia, the protection of minors (Article 22). The measures adopted are notified to the Commission of the European Communities, whose task is to verify within two months whether the measures are compatible with Community law. On 22 December 1998, the Commission adopted a decision confirming some restrictive...

The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) has ruled that an Australian citizen can be punished for incitement of the people under the terms of Article 130.1 and 130.3 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal CodeStGB). The accused, a director of the "Adelaide Institute" in Australia, wrote, inter alia, articles in which he supported "revisionist" theories and which he posted on the Institute's home page on an Australian Internet server. In these articles, written under the pretext of scientific research, he denied that the murder of Jews under National Socialism ever took place, describing it as a...

The Chairman of the Administrative Division of the Council of State decided, in response to an appeal by the Holland Media Groep (Holland Media Group - HMG), that the programs of RTL and RTL5 are - for the time beingconsidered to come under the jurisdiction of Luxembourg and therefore may be transmitted in the Netherlands without a Dutch broadcasting licence. HMG, a commercial broadcasting corporation that broadcasts television programs for RTL4 and RTL5, first lodged an appeal to the Administrative Division against a decree of the District Court of Amsterdam on 7 September 2000, (case 98/3461,...

On 21 September 2000 the European Parliament endorsed the proposals on jurisdiction in electronic commerce disputes. This proposal for a council regulation (COM 1999/348, 99/0154) was presented by the Commission on 14 July 1999. It replaces and updates the 1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgements. The Parliament acknowledges that consumers should have the right to sue in their local court but accepted that the particular nature of e-commerce also requires other forms of dispute resolution. In an amendment suggested by the Parliament, the right of consumers...

On 14 September 2000, the Slovak Parliament adopted the "Act on Broadcasting and Retransmission and on Amendments to the Act on Telecommunications No. 195/2000 Collection of Laws ("Coll."). The new Act replaces the Radio and Television Broadcasting Act No. 468/1991 Coll. as amended, the Act on the Council of the Slovak Republic for Radio and Television Broadcasting and on the Change of Act No. 468/1991 Coll. No. 160/1997 Coll. as amended, and § 1 of the Act on Provisions for Radio and Television Broadcasting No. 166/1993 Coll. as amended. The new Act entered into force on the day of promulgation...