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“And in regard of causes now in hand”*: pending cases at the ECJ and the CFI - update

Posted on July 7, 2009 | Filed Under communication technologies

A first step to bring a clearer focus to the coverage of European case law in telecommunications and broadcasting in this blog: I updated the list of “cases to watch”. The list of cases currently pending before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance is now in a new and separate page, directly accessible from the start page (look at the link list above), here. As a next step, I will add a list of the closed cases that we have already covered on this blog, probably next week.

*) Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act I Scene 1)

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy”* or: our take on the “why we haven’t posted much recently”-topic

Posted on July 2, 2009 | Filed Under communication technologies

My latest post to this blog dates from 20 May 2009. It’s not like nothing happened in the six weeks that have passed since - there was, just for instance

• the ECJ-Judgment in the case C-8/08 T-Mobile NL (which might be called “one strike and you’re out”, as the Court concludes - correctly, in my view - that even if there is just one meeting between competitors to discuss changes in remunerations for dealers this can amount to an anti-competitive concerted action),
• the new Roaming Regulation was published,
• the European Court of Human Rights revisited the VgT v. Switzerland case with a stunning and wide reaching judgment on Art 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and on the obligations of the Convention States to follow up on the Court’s judgments (VgT v. Switzerland No. 2);
• and of course today the new Broadcasting Communication (Communication on the Application of State Aid Rules to Public Service Broadcasting) was published.

Of course any one of these issues would have deserved extensive coverage in a blog that is dedicated to “content and carrier” - but we simply did not get around to do it.

You can take the quote in the title of this post (from Shakespeare, as you might have guessed) as an indication that we are not terribly sorry: we had other things on our mind, and we’re perfectly happy. We’re also perfectly happy to wind down this blog that has lasted for some two years now and has provided our readers (and ourselves) with almost two hundred posts. It started out as a group blog - and then, as some members of our group changed their professional focus, their contributions became less frequent. This spring I realised I seemed to be the only one left to keep up the posting.

So I have to ask myself this question: shall I keep up this blog? I have not yet come up with a definite answer. One possibility I am thinking about is to reduce the “mission” of the blog to simply follow the European case law in electronic communications - this would mean fewer posts, but with a clearly defined focus.

The other possibility I am considering is to open up the blog: Wouldn’t it be interesting to have a truly international group blog on European communications law?

So there is my question to all our readers: would you be interested in writing for a European communications law-blog? Of course, it doesn’t have to be (but it could be) www.contentandcarrier.eu - we could just as well create a new blog or move to another existing blog; this is no vanity project for us.

Please leave a comment, or if you prefer to make direct contact send an e-mail to hanspeter[at]lehofer.at.

In the meantime, even if we’re not promising to post more in the next weeks (it’s summer, even the European Court of Justice will be in recess!), I’d still recommend you keep contentandcarrier on your feed list (or subscribe to it, if you haven’t done so yet) - at least you’ll receive a notice if after all we finally do shut down the blog.

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*) Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 1