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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld the judgment of the Court of First Instance annulling the Council of the European Union's decision to deny Ms Heidi Hautala access to a report on arms exports. The Council had refused Ms Hautala's request to access the report (which was produced under the Common Foreign and Security Policy) in 1997 on the grounds that the disclosure of the sensitive information contained therein "could be harmful for" the EU's relations with non-member states. According to Article 4 of Council Decision 93/731/EC on public access to Council documents, "[A]ccess to...

On 11 September 2001 the Council of Ministers adopted a document "ePolska - Action Plan for the development of the Information Society in Poland for the period 2001 - 2006", which was based on partial strategies prepared by the respective institutions and that followed the action plan included in "eEurope 2002 - An Information Society for All", a document issued by the European Commission (see IRIS 2000-6: 5 and IRIS 2001-7: 4). The programme ePolska deals with a number of issues connected with the implementation of the Information Society, taking into consideration developments and realities...

On 27 September 2001, the author of the infamous "Kournikova" virus was given an unconditional sentence of 150 hours of community service by a police court in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The fact that he was a first-time offender and that the damage caused seemed to have been limited, influenced the length and nature of the sentence. The virus, which has been labelled the second-largest ever to be released, infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide from 12 February of this year. It was called the "Kournikova" virus, as it was hidden in an e-mail with a picture of tennis star Anna...

On 24 October, the Federal Government adopted the Verordnung über die technische und organisatorische Umsetzung von Maßnahmen zur Überwachung der Telekommunikation (Decree on the technical and organisational transposition of measures to monitor telecommunications - TKÜV) (see IRIS 2001-9: 15). The TKÜV supplements existing legal provisions under which the secrecy of telecommunications, protected by the German Constitution, may be breached. It lays down the technical and organisational precautions that must be taken by operators of telecommunications systems, including so-called public telecommunications...

The company Télévision française 1 (TF1) signed a new agreement with the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) on 8 October. The agreement - which will come into force on 1 January 2002 and be valid for five years - has been reached at the end of much work and rounds of negotiations and follows on from the renewal of TF1's authorisation last April without calling for applications from any other parties. The new agreement is much more detailed, and has taken into account the wishes expressed by the CSA, particularly regarding ethical practice, and those...