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New sponsorship rules for the Dutch public broadcasters came into force on 1 July 1995. The amendment of the Media Act follows the obligation to implement the EEC Directive "Television without frontiers". The original proposal of the Government to change the sponsorship regime was rather strict: sponsoring of programmes of the public broadcasters would not be allowed except for programmes in the categories of sports, culture, information and education. Parliament turned the proposal around by allowing sponsoring, with the exception of news programmes, children's programmes and consumer information....

The 14 July 1995 is the date of expiration of the delay for the entry into force of the articles of the Act of transposition of the Directive "Television without frontiers", which regulate the advertisement breaks during long-run films as well as for information programmes, documentaries and children programmes.

On 31 May 1995, the European Commission put forward a proposal to amend Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of broadcasting activities. In its comments on the aforementioned amendment the European Radio and Television Union stressed the following points : - a regulatory framework is necessary for the field of application of the directive - the quota of independent productions should not be increased. Measures taken in favour of independent producers should not work...

The Norwegian Government has recently launched an action plan against violence shown in the media. The plan has a dual approach, focussing on the one hand on stricter regulations and on the other hand on information and education. Four Conferences on the issue took place in Oslo, Kristianstad, Tromsö and Trondheim in the beginning of May. Two others will take place at the end of September in Stavanger and Bergen. The action plan is a joint initiative of the Ministries of Culture and the Ministry of Justice, assisted by the Ministry of Children and Families and the Ministry of Education. The State...

The House of Lord's Select Committee on the European Communities has published its Report which considers two Community proposals: COM (94) 96 (on strategy options to strengthen the European programme industry in the context of the audio-visual policy of the EC) and COM (94) 353 final (the follow-up to the consultation process relating to the Green Paper on "Pluralism and media concentration in the Internal Market - an assessment of the need for Community action"; see IRIS 1995-1: 7 and IRIS 1995-2: 5). The Committee produced twenty-eight recommendations on the basis of oral and written evidence...