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On 24 November 1997, the Media Authority of The Netherlands (Commissariaat voor de Media) wrote a letter to the Holland Media Groep (HMG) that it will extend its monitoring activities for compliance with the Dutch Media Act, to the broadcasters of HMG (esp. RTL4 and RTL5). A similar letter was sent to radio broadcasters Sky Radio and Classic FM. This decision is based on the revised 'Television without Frontiers' Directive which stipulates that a broadcaster is deemed to be established in a Member State when it has its Head Office in this Member State and takes its editorial decisions in this...

The United Kingdom has made regulations to give effect to the European Union Council Directive 89/552 "Television without Frontiers" Articles. 2 and 3 concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities after the European Court of Justice had found the United Kingdom to be in breach by misinterpreting the basis on which satellite broadcasters fell within United Kingdom jurisdiction, by applying different regimes to domestic satellite services and non-domestic satellite services and by exercising control over broadcasts transmitted by broadcasters falling within the jurisdiction of other...

The Broadcasting Act 1990 (s. 43) made a distinction between domestic, non-domestic and foreign satellite services. The first two required a licence from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and there were several restrictions on the ownership of licenses to provide domestic satellite services. However the Court of Justice of the EC found, in a judgement dated 10 September 1996 (Case C-222/94, see IRIS 1996-10: 5-6 and IRIS 1997-3: 14), that the UK had failed to fulfil its obligations under the `Television without Frontiers' Directive by misinterpreting the basis on which satellite broadcasters...

These three joined cases are all concerned with television advertising broadcasts by TV3 (which is based in England) via satellite to Denmark, Sweden and Norway, but can also be received (in the first case) in Sweden on home channel TV 4. The image is always the same, the acoustic signals are in the language of the country concerned. The first case concerns a commercial for a children's magazine about dinosaurs, which is printed in Italy and distributed in Sweden, by a Swedish subsidiary (De Agostini) of an Italian business group. The commercial has been broadcast without raising any problems...

The German Government and the European Commission together organised a European Ministerial Conference on "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential" in Bonn from 6 to 8 July 1997. It ended with the adoption of a declaration, signed by participating ministers from EU, EFTA and Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus. In this declaration, the ministers attempt to define the role of both the public and private sectors, the aim being to strike an optimum balance between the opportunities and the dangers inherent in the rapid development of the information technologies....