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In IRIS 1995-10: 10, we reported on a draft law of the Ukraine High Council of 26.04.1996 amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act of 21.12.1993. Since then, on 02.06.1996, the law amending the Ukrainian Broadcasting Act has been adopted. The amending law redefines and supplements inter alia the provisions concerning the definition of basic concepts (§ 1), the jurisdiction of the State broadcasting bodies (§ 4), the national broadcasting council (§ 5), anti-monopoly regulations (§ 7), the structure of national broadcasting (§ 11) and the State broadcasting corporation (§ 12). The amended Broadcasting...

On 7 May 1996, the European Commission amended the proposal for a revision of the 1989 "Television without Frontiers" Directive which it presented to the European Parliament and the Council on 31 May 1995. The amendments were made on the basis of the first reading in the European Parliament which resulted in a Resolution on 14 February 1996 ( see: IRIS 1996-3: 6). Parliament approved the Commission's proposals subject to a number of amendments it had made. The amended proposal also takes into account the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee of 13 September 1995 (CES 972/95) and the discussions...

A governmental committee in Sweden has examined the need for changes in existing laws in the area of document transmittal and verification by electronic documents and services. The report is based upon three parts. The first part deals with governmental authorities' management of documents an the utilization of IT in administrative funtions. The second part addresses questions relating to civil law as it pertains to the management of electronic documentation. The report finds that most of the questions that arise may be answered within the frameword of current contractual law, since this is commonly...

The Secretary of State for National Heritage, Virginia Bottomly, has issued an Order, The Broadcasting (Prescribed Countries) Order 1996, which will extend the existing regulatory and licensing powers of the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to all television services broadcast from the United Kingdom, regardless of which country the service was received. The Broadcasting Act 1990 describes one type of television programme service under that Act as a non-domestic satellite service. Part of the definition of this service is that it consists of the transmission of television programmes by...

In October 1995, the Oslo Byrett (the lower court of Oslo) condemned the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) to pay damages of 320 000 Norweigan Kronor to a number of seal hunters in Norway. The reason for this was the broadcasting of a documentary on seal hunting produced by the Norwegian free lance journalist, Odd Lindberg and the Swedish producer, Bo Landin, which the court found to be defamatory. The case has been given topical interest again since the seal hunters have appealed for higher damages to the Lagmansretten (the appeal court) with reference to a previous...