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Acting on complaints from viewers, the Swedish Broadcasting Commission made two rulings on 15 June 2000 that put the present licensing system used by the Swedish Government into question. Kanal5 Ltd and TV3 Ltd both hold licenses issued by the British Independent Television Commission (ITC) for satellite transmissions. In both cases the broadcasts are directed towards the Swedish market and are in the Swedish language. In 1998 Kanal5 AB and TV3 AB received licenses from the Swedish Government to transmit digital terrestrial television. Both companies were established in Sweden and in both cases...

Holland Media Groep (Holland Media Group – HMG) is a commercial broadcasting corporation, which broadcasts television programs on channels RTL4 and RTL5. By a decree dated 20 November 1997 the Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority) decided that: - HMG must be seen as the broadcasting corporation that is responsible for the programs broadcast by RTL4 an RTL5; - HMG is subject to the authority of the Netherlands and thereby to the supervision of the Commissariaat voor de media; - The Commissariaat voor de Media allows the making of television programs by HMG and broadcast of these...

A press release published on 30 August 2000, by the Ministry of Culture has announced that problems have risen concerning the broadcast of a football match between Denmark and Iceland on 2 September 2000. Article 3a of Directive 97/36/EC amending Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the pursuit of television broadcasting activities provides for free access for the public to TV broadcasting of events important to society. A substantial proportion of the public in a Member State may not be deprived of the possibility of following such events as are regarded by that Member State as being of major importance...

A draft of amendments to the Broadcasting Act 1992 adopted on 31 March 2000 by the Parliament provides for harmonization of Polish audiovisual law with European Union standards. In accordance with the provisions contained in the Directive on "Television Without Frontiers" some new legal definitions were added, such as the definition of sponsorship, teleshopping and surreptitious advertising (the latter is banned). Advertising issues were regulated as a whole in the law; several restrictions on advertising were introduced, some of them even stricter than those stipulated by the "Television Without...

On 17 February 1999 the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (the Flemish Media Authority) decided that although VT4 operates under an ITC-licence in application of the British Broadcasting Act, VT4 in reality is established in the Flemish Community. VT4 was given until 15 September 1999 to request a licence as a Flemish broadcasting organisation and to conform to the media legislation of the Flemish Community (see IRIS 1999-3: 11 and IRIS 1999-6: 13). The decision of the Media Authority resulted from a complaint by VTM, the Flemish commercial TV-broadcaster, against VT4. At the request of VT4 the...