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On 24 January 2001, the Flemish Parliament agreed on some new provisions in the Flemish Broadcasting Act regarding teleshopping. The new provisions create the possibility for private organisations to obtain a licence as a TV-station programming only teleshopping. Until now, the existing commercial TV-broadcasters were allowed to programme teleshopping only within a restricted framework. The new provisions that will soon be published in the Moniteur (Official Journal) create a new type of broadcasting licence allowing a TV-station to programme exclusively teleshopping. At the same time, the articles...

On 9 September 2000, the President of the Republic of Armenia signed the Act on Television and Radio adopted by the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. The Act regulates the procedures for licensing and establishment, as well as the activities of television and radio broadcasting companies. It determines the structure of the national broadcasting system, providing for the co-existence of commercial and public broadcasting companies. The State must ensure that at least one radio and one television programme of the Public Broadcasting Company is received in all the territory of Armenia (Art.4)....

As provided in Art. 26 of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive, on 15 January 2001, the European Commission submitted its third report on the application of the Directive to the European Parliament, the Council and the Economic and Social Committee (see IRIS 1995-7: 4 and IRIS 1997-10: 5). The report deals with application of the Directive since it was amended in July 1997 up until the end of 2000. After giving a description of the development of the television market in Europe during the period 1997 to 2000, the report takes a closer look at the functioning of several of the directive's...

Article 2 of the "Television without Frontiers" Directive (89/552/EEC) permits Member States to restrict the provision of broadcasting services from the territory of another Member State only in case of transmissions which manifestly, seriously and gravely infringe the rules relating to, inter alia, the protection of minors (Article 22). The measures adopted are notified to the Commission of the European Communities, whose task is to verify within two months whether the measures are compatible with Community law. On 22 December 1998, the Commission adopted a decision confirming some restrictive...

The Turkish Radio and Television Supervisory Authority (RTÜK) has issued private Turkish television station ATV with a one-day broadcasting ban because it broadcast Pokemon films. The decision was taken on the grounds that the films contained violent scenes, which could be harmful to children. It followed an incident when a four-year old Turkish boy jumped from the seventh floor of a building and broke his leg. He later said that he had wanted to fly like a Pokemon. The Turkish Ministry of Health had already announced before the ban was imposed that it considered the cartoons to be dangerous...