Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Sweden's "B-CAS" Is Admitted Illegal

The European Commission said it has withdrawn its legal case against Sweden at the EU's highest court after the Scandinavian country amended its laws to abolish a licensing system that gave the partly state-owned company Boxer the exclusive right to handle certain digital terrestrial broadcasting services.

The commission referred Sweden to the European Court of Justice in October 2006. Under EU laws from 2002, member states had to abolish all exclusive rights for the provision of electronic communications services, including the encryption of broadcasting programmes, by July 2003.

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