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The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic submitted to the Government of the Czech Republic a proposal for a new Broadcasting Act (Zákon o provozování rozhlasového a telvizního vysílání a prevzatého vysílání). The proposal is intended to implement the revised «Television without Frontiers» Directive and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (as amended by the Protocol of 1998) into Czech Law. In its introductory provisions the Act contains some definitions, many of which correspond to the definitions of the Directive. In addition, the Act sets out criteria to determine in which...

The Spanish Parliament has finally approved an Act incorporating the revised "Television Without Frontiers" Directive into Spanish Law. This Act amends Law 25/1994, which implemented the original "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The new Act introduces some important amendments: - According to the new Art. 2 of Law 25/1994, the provisions of this law shall apply to terrestrial, satellite and cable TV, and to all public and private broadcasters. Until now, Law 25/1994 did not apply to thematic channels distributed via satellite, and only a few of its provisions applied to the programmes...

The European Commission has decided to send the Belgian authorities a «letter of formal notice» under Article 226 EC Treaty, in which it will express the opinion that Belgium failed to meet the requirements of the «Television Without Frontiers» Directive and Article 10 of the EC Treaty. The Commission's action follows a recent ruling by the Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media (Flemish Media Authority) concerning the application of Article 2 of the Directive to VT4, a television broadcaster serving exclusively the public of the Flemish Community but operating under a UK license (see IRIS 1999-3:...

On 4 May 1999, the Flemish Government agreed in principle on a list of events of major social significance with regard to the application of article 3bis of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The list contains an enumeration of international and/or national sport events (e.g., Olympics, football, cycling, tennis, athletics, motor racing, F1 car racing) and recognizes one cultural event as being protected in the sense of article 3bis of the Directive (the Queen Elisabeth Contest). The State Council, the Contact Committee in regard to application of article 23bis of the Directive and the...

On 17 February 1999 the Flemish Media Authority ( Vlaams Commissariaat voor de Media) has made an important ruling concerning the application of Article 2 of the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive. The case concerns a complaint by the Flemish commercial TV-broadcaster VTM against VT4, a SBS-station. VT4 is a TV-broadcaster operating with a licence from the Independent Television Commission under UK law, while the programs of VT4 are exclusively targeted at the public of the Flemish Community. VTM argued that VT4 is to be considered a Flemish broadcaster falling under the application of the...