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Ambivalences in the Fixing of Broadcasting Fees in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Peter Lerche
Peter Lerche
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Professor of Law (emer.), Munich University.
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Extract

In a recent article in EBOR, Ernst-JoachimMestmäcker remarks: “In a good drama we expect to be surprised in the third act by the revelation of hidden conflicts as well as the identity of the play's true hero.”

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Research Article
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European Business Organization Law Review (EBOR) , Volume 2 , Issue 3-4 , September 2001 , pp. 703 - 711
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2001

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References

1 Mestmäcker, , “The EC Commission's Modernization of Competition Policy”, 1 EBOR (2000) 401, 403.Google Scholar

2 For a summary, see Hesse, A., Rundfunkrecht, 2nd ed. (Munich: Vahlen 1999) 313 et seq.Google Scholar

3 Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfGE) 92, 203, 238.Google Scholar

4 Mestmäcker, , “In welcher Weise empfiehlt es sich, die Ordnung des Rundfunks und sein Verhältnis zu anderen Medien – auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Harmonisierung – zu regeln?”, Verhandlungen des 56. Deutschen Juristentages, Vol. 2 (Munich: Beck 1986) 9, 27.Google Scholar

5 BVerfGE 90, 60.

6 BVerfGE 90, 60, 103: politikfrei.

7 BVerfGE 90, 60, 104.

8 Ibid., 92.

9 Ibid., 92.

10 Ibid., 92.

11 BVerfGE 74, 297, 342; 87, 181, 202 et seq.

12 BVerfGE 90, 60, 102 et seq.

13 For details see Badura, , “Gewährleistung der Freiheit des Rundfunks, ‘Funktion’ des Rundfunks und ‘öffentliche Aufgabe’ der Rundfunkveranstalter”, in: Festschrift Knöpfle (Munich: Beck 1996) 1, 5 et seqGoogle Scholar. Badura speaks in a more general way of the “ambivalence of broad casting regulation”, ibid., 5.

14 See particularly the preamble of the Saxonian statute concerning the “Fünfter Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag”. Hereto see the report in Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd medien), No. 100, 16. 12. 2000, 17.

15 BVerfGE 90, 60, 104.

16 Section 7 (2) clause 3 Rundfunkfinanzierungsstaatsvertrag is, in contrast, unclear.

17 Particularly Sections 26 et seq. Rundfunkstaatsvertrag.

18 “Fünfter Staatsvertrag zur Änderung rundfunkrechtlicher Staatsverträge”.

19 Article 7.

20 For more general Swiss, Austrian, German and European law perspectives on the separation of powers, see the recent articles in Isensee, (ed.), Gewaltenteilung heute, Ossenbühl-Symposium (Heidelberg: Müller 2000)Google Scholar. For more general issues arising when interstate treaties are dealt with as packages loaded with different contents, see the as yet unpublished speech by Merten, , “Gesetzgebung im demokratischen Rechtsstaat”, Korinek-Symposium (Wien 23.11.2000)Google Scholar. For amendments of the German Basic Law passed as a package in the course of German reunification, see BVerfGE 82, 316, 320 et seq.; 84, 90, 118 et seq.