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The Spanish Government has approved Decree nº 1736/1998, which regulates, among other things, the protection of personal data in the provision of telecommunication services. The Decree implements the related provisions included in the General Telecommunications Act 1998 ( see IRIS 1998-6 :9) and refers to relevant basic legislation on this subject contained in Law 5/1992, of 29 October 1992 on the regulation of the automated handling of personal data ( Ley Orgánica de Regulación del Tratamiento Automatizado de los Datos de Carácter Personal -LORTAD). The Decree also includes specific provisions...

By judgements on 1 September 1998 and 7 September 1998 the District Courts in Mainz and Cologne respectively decided on the admissibility of a party political broadcast by 'The Republicans" a party authorised to take part in the parliamentary elections. The same issue also arose before the District Court of Munich IThe background was the refusal by private broadcasters SAT 1, RTL, PRO 7 and Kabel 1 to broadcast the programme. In it, photos of the former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (German Christian Democratic Party) and the then opposition leader, Kurt Schumacher (German Social Democratic...

In France, there are any number of brainstormings, symposia and studies on the legal aspects of the Internet, but attention deserves to be drawn to a report compiled by the Conseil d'Etat in July 1998 ("Internet and the Digital Networks"). Its overall rapporteur, Mrs Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, starts off by stating that, "contrary to certain affirmations, all existing legislation applies to Internet authors". Having thus set the scene, the report stresses the need to enhance the value of content by the protection of intellectual property, particularly by taking action against counterfeiting which...

On 22 July 1998, after a co-operation agreement with the Italian Ministry for Communication was finalised and its internal regulations and code of ethics issued ( see Gazz. Uff. no. 169 of 22 July 1998), the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM) became fully operational. Established under the Law of 31 July 1997, no. 249, the AGCOM (see IRIS 1997-8:10) is the independent Italian regulatory authority responsible for the telecommunications, radio, television, and publishing sectors. It is headed by a President, appointed by the President of the Council of Ministers, and is organised...

The Data Protection Bill 1998 received Royal Assent at the end of July. The new Act implements Council Directive 95/46/EEC ([1995] OJ L281/31) on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The Act creates a Data Protection Commissioner with enhanced privacy protection powers and broadens the scope of the existing legislation so that it now covers for the first time information relating to living individuals held in manual files. The new Act also strengthens the individual's right of access to information held about them. It...