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The Commission of the European Communities has passed a proposed review of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The official text was not yet available to be included in the current issue of IRIS. The actual aim of the review is to take into account the technological development of the market, along with certain difficulties that had appeared with regard to the application of the present text (differing interpretations of the text as to the regulations applicable for a radio broadcaster ; regulations concerning the promotion of European programmes). The Commission followed the recommendations...

With its ruling on 22 March 1995, the second senate of the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) settled the dispute between the German Länder (federal states) and the Federation over the EEC Directive on "Television without frontiers" (89/552/EEC). Eigth German federal Länder have added their support to a lawsuit brought by the government of the Land of Bavaria and which has been pending since 1989. The proceedings dealt essentially with the question whether, by endorsing the EEC Directive, the Federal government had infringed the jurisdiction concerning broadcasting matters...

The Court of Justice of the EC has ruled that the victim of a libel by a newspaper article may bring an action for damages against the publisher either before the court of the country where the publisher of the defamatory publication is established, or before the courts of the State in which the publication was distributed and where the victim claims to have suffered injury to his reputation. The former courts will have jurisdiction to award damages for all the harm caused by the defamation, the latter only in respect of the harm caused in the state in question. The question to the Court was brought...

In IRIS 1995-1: 16-18 we provided an overview of the state of signatures and ratifications of all Conventions concluded within the framework of the Council of Europe and of relevance to the audio-visual sector. However, sometimes the signature of States is accompanied by a Declaration and sometimes States may make their signature subject to a Reservation. Since the European Convention relating to questions on copyright law and neighbouring rights in the framework of transfrontier broadcasting by satellite, the European Convention on cinematographic coproduction and the European Convention on Transfrontier...

The State Council, the high administrative Court in Belgium, has ruled in a judgment of 2 March 1995 (Case No 51.964) that VT4 is to be given access to the Flemish cable networks. By Ministerial Order of 16 January 1995 the Flemish Minister of Cultural Affairs refused to permit the Flemish cable networks to distribute the television programmes of VT4. A decision of 24 January 1995 by the President of the 4th Chamber of the State Council had already provisionally suspended the Ministerial Order. In its judgment of 2 March the State Council affirmed the suspension. The Ministerial Order is now suspended...