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• Case T-797/17: Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2018 — Star Television Productions v EUIPO — Marc Dorcel (STAR) (EU trade mark — Revocation proceedings — EU figurative mark STAR — No genuine use of the mark — Article 51(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 (now Article 58(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001))

  • Published: 2018-07-13
  • Corporate Author(s): General Court (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: advertising, broadcasting, database, electronic device, EU trade mark, office equipment, registered trademark, television, trademark law
• Corrigendum to Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455 of 5 December 2017 amending Directive 2006/112/EC and Directive 2009/132/EC as regards certain value added tax obligations for supplies of services and distance sales of goods (OJ L 125, 22.5.2018)

  • Published: 2018-09-06
  • Corporate Author(s): Council of the European Union
  • Subject: broadcasting, electronic commerce, import (EU), provision of services, tax exemption, tax harmonisation, telecommunications, third country, VAT
• Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.9107 — The Carlyle Group/NEP Group) — Candidate case for simplified procedure (Text with EEA relevance.)

  • Published: 2018-09-18
  • Corporate Author(s): European Commission
  • Subject: audiovisual production, broadcasting, economic concentration, investment company, merger control
• Corrigendum to Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455 of 5 December 2017 amending Directive 2006/112/EC and Directive 2009/132/EC as regards certain value added tax obligations for supplies of services and distance sales of goods (OJ L 348, 29.12.2017)

  • Published: 2018-09-06
  • Corporate Author(s): Council of the European Union
  • Subject: broadcasting, electronic commerce, import (EU), provision of services, tax exemption, tax harmonisation, telecommunications, third country, VAT
• Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EU) 2017/2454 of 5 December 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 904/2010 on administrative cooperation and combating fraud in the field of value added tax (OJ L 348, 29.12.2017)

  • Published: 2018-05-22
  • Corporate Author(s): Council of the European Union
  • Subject: administrative cooperation, broadcasting, electronic commerce, exchange of information, import (EU), tax exemption, tax offence, telecommunications, third country, VAT
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/980 of 11 July 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 815/2012, as regards the information to be exchanged between Member States to identify taxable persons using the non-Union scheme

  • Published: 2018-07-11
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (European Commission) ; European Commission
  • Subject: broadcasting, disclosure of information, exchange of information, fraud, provision of services, tax evasion, tax return, telecommunications industry, television, VAT
• Case T-470/18: Action brought on 31 July 2018 — Telenet v Commission

  • Published: 2018-07-31
  • Corporate Author(s): General Court (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: Belgium, broadcasting, domestic market, regulation of telecommunications, wholesale trade
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  Switching of Cloud Services Providers
  Executive summary

  This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2016/0032 – Switching of Cloud Services Providers "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC and Arthur’s Legal. The focus of the study is to gather evidence concerning the practices of cloud service providers in relation to data and appl...

  This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2016/0032 – Switching of Cloud Services Providers "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC and Arthur’s Legal. The focus of the study is to gather evidence concerning the practices of cloud service providers in relation to data and application portability within cloud ecosystems. In this context, the analysis defines portability as follows: ‘Data portability is the ability to easily transfer data from one cloud service provider to another cloud service provider without being required to export and re-import the data; similarly, application portability is the ability to easily transfer an application or application components from one cloud service to a comparable cloud service and run the application in the target cloud service’. Note that portability of data may, also, refer to the portability of data to the cloud customer’s own IT systems; the latter option does not fall directly, though, under the scope of the present study. Considering the series of technical, legal and economic issues identified in the study as well as their impact on portability for different cloud stakeholders, the report elaborates on 3 different policy options to facilitate portability. First, it expands on the introduction of a mandatory right for portability under EU law identifying its main components. Second, it discusses existing soft law instruments for portability reflecting on their effectiveness to address the portability issues occurring in the cloud context. Third, it explains what abstinence from any action at EU level entails. Finally, the report examines the possible economic impacts of the policy measures that could be taken at EU level to increase cloud portability, as described above, by describing the possible effects of these on demand for public cloud services.

  • Published: 2018-05-08
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (European Commission)
  • Subject: broadcasting, communications systems, computer network, goods and services, information technology, Internet access provider, regulation (EU), regulation of telecommunications, services contract, telecommunications, telecommunications industry
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  Media use in the European Union
  Report

  Latest edition.

  The previous survey on media use in the European Union (Standard Eurobarometer survey of autumn 2016, EB86) found: - An increase in the use of the Internet and online social networks in the media habits of Europeans; - Rising levels of trust in the media; - An increased feeling of being inadequa...

  The previous survey on media use in the European Union (Standard Eurobarometer survey of autumn 2016, EB86) found: - An increase in the use of the Internet and online social networks in the media habits of Europeans; - Rising levels of trust in the media; - An increased feeling of being inadequately informed about European matters; - A rise of the Internet in the sources of information on national and European political matters, with television remaining in the lead; - Increased use of the Internet to search for information about the European Union; - Media coverage of the European Union is largely seen as objective; - Rising recognition of the political utility of online social networks, but also increased criticism of the unreliability of the information they contain.

  • Published: 2018-05-15
  • Corporate Author(s): Directorate-General for Communication (European Commission) ; TNS Opinion & Social
  • Subject: access to EU information, access to information, broadcasting, consultation of information, dissemination of information, EU situation, Internet, mass media, press, public opinion, sample survey, source of information, television
• Joined Cases C-91/17 P and C-92/17 P: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 26 April 2018 — Cellnex Telecom SA, formerly Abertis Telecom SA, Telecom Castilla-La Mancha SA v European Commission, SES Astra (Appeal — State Aid — Digital television — Aid for the extension of digital terrestrial television to the remote and less urbanised areas of the Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha (Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) — Grant in favour of operators of digital terrestrial television platforms — Decision declaring the aid measures to be partially incompatible with the internal market — Concept of ‘State Aid’ — Advantage — Service of general economic interest — Definition — Margin of discretion of the Member States)

  • Published: 2018-04-26
  • Corporate Author(s): Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Union)
  • Subject: broadcasting, Castile-La Mancha, control of State aid, digitisation, high-definition television, peripheral region, services of general interest, Spain, State aid