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A major item under discussion is whether a new private commercial broadcasting organisation (VT4) licensed by the United Kingdom, will be given access to the Flemish cable networks. Refering to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in the TV10 case, the Flemish Minister of Culture actually is denying access to the cable networks in the Flemish Community. In the TV10 judgment the Court of Justice ruled that the provisions of the EEC Treaty on freedom to provide services are to be interpreted as not precluding a Member State from treating a broadcasting body constituted under the law of another...

On 29 November 1994, the President of the Tribunal de Commerce of Brussels decided to request a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Communities in an appeal by the Belgian State against a court decision of 26 October 1993, allowing the Belgian cable operator, Coditel Brabant, to distribute the programmes of TNT and Cartoon Network. The Tribunal asks the Court of Justice the following questions: 1. Is the non-domestic satellite licence granted by the United Kingdom to TNT/Cartoon Network in line with the requirements of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive and does...

The Court of Justice of the EC ruled on 5 October 1994 that the Dutch authorities had justifiably prevented TV10 from being distributed by Dutch cable networks. TV10, a private broadcasting station owned by independent producer Joop van den Ende, had chosen Luxembourg as a place of residence to circumvent the strict Dutch rules on national broadcasters. The Commissariaat voor de Media (Dutch Media Authority) banned the channel because the target audience was the Dutch public, the daily management was to a large extent in the hands of persons of Dutch nationality, most of the employees involved...