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The Dutch broadcasting organisation Veronica, currently licensed to broadcast in the public broadcasting system of the Netherlands, is going ahead with its plans to become a private commercial broadcaster. The broadcasting organisation has concluded an agreement with Endemol, a major independent production company based in the Netherlands, and with RTL4 and 5, the Dutch language private commercial channels of the Luxembourg based organisation CLT. Endemol will produce most of the programmes for the joint venture. The new conglomerate will broadcast three television programmes: the existing RTL4...

On 9 February 1995, the Court of Justice of the European Communities has ruled that Articles 30, 85, 86, 5 and 3(f) of the EEC Treaty and the EEC Directive on "Television without Frontiers", do not prevent Member States from prohibiting - by Statute or by regulation - the broadcasting of advertisements for the distribution sector by television broadcasters established on their territory. The Court answered to a question which was referred to it by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris in its judgment of 27 September 1993, in the case of the Société d'Importation Édouard Leclerc-Siplec v. TF1 Publicité...

To make room for the disputed distribution of the programme of the new Flemish private commercial broadcaster VT4 of the Skandinavian/American media company SBS, cable operators in the Brussels area have decided to stop the distribution of the programme of Nederland 3, one of the public stations of the Netherlands. This decision has lead to potests of, on the one hand, the Government of the Netherlands and, on the other hand, Dutch Members of the European Parliament and journalists. The Dutch Government has pointed out to the Flemish Minister of Culture, Mr. H. Weckx, that according to the cultural...

On 24 January 1995, the French government issued a Decree fixing the rules applicable to different sound radio broadcasting and television services distributed by cable. The new rules, based on Articles 33 and 34,1 of the 1986 Freedom of Communications Act ( Loi relative à la liberté de communication) amend Decree No 92-882 of 1 September 1992. Firstly, the Decree declares the rules on advertising and sponsoring for private sound radio broadcasting services by means of terrestrial transmitters or by satellite, will now also apply to sound radio broadcasting services which are distributed by cable....

On the basis of the Cable Decree of 4 May 1994, the Flemish Minister of Cultural Affairs, Mr. H. Weck has, by Ministerial Order ( Ministerieel Besluit) of 16 January 1995, banned the distribution of VT4 by Flemish cable networks. VT4 is a private commercial broadcasting organisation, which broadcasts from the United Kingdom television programmes which are specifically aimed at Vlaanderen (the Flemish Community of Belgium) since 1 February of this year. The Minister refused VT4 access to the Flemish cable networks, firstly, because he considers VT4 to be a Flemish broadcasting organisation which...