Case C-336/07: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Hannover (Germany) lodged on 19 July 2007 — Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH & Co. KG v Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt für privaten Rundfunk
Date: 2007-10-20
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: broadcasting, high-definition television, interpretation of the law, television, transmission network, universal service

20.10.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 247/5

The majority of the recommendations addressed to the Greek
authorities have been implemented either not at all or inade-
quately. Further, the inspection reports disclose a very worrying
picture of the official controls carried out in Greece.

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Reference
from the
preliminary
Verwaltungsgericht Hannover (Germany) lodged on 19 July
2007 — Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH &
für
Co. KG v Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt

ruling

privaten Rundfunk

(Case C-336/07)

(2007/C 247/07)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Verwaltungsgericht Hannover

Parties to the main proceedings

Service Directive 2002/22/EC if a cable network operator is
forced to provide access to television programmes on its
analogue cable networks even in those areas of the Land in
which the cable end-user would in any event be in a position
to receive the same television programmes
terrestrially
according to the DVB-T standard by means of a terrestrial
antenna and a decoder?

3. Are ‘television … services’ within the meaning of the first
sentence of Article 31(1) of
the Universal Service Direc-
tive 2002/22/EC to be interpreted as including providers of
media services or telemedia, for example teleshopping?

4. Is a provision like Paragraph 37(2) of the Niedersächsisches
Mediengesetz compatible with Article 31(1) of the Universal
Service Directive 2002/22/EC if, in the event of a shortage of
channels, the competent national authority has to establish
an order of priority of applicants which results in full use of
the channels available to the cable network operator?

Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Corte
lodged on 25 July 2007 —
d'Appello di Torino (Italy)
Italia Srl v Bayerischer
and Bavaria
Bavaria N.V.

Brauerbund e.V

(Case C-343/07)

(2007/C 247/08)

Language of the case: Italian

Applicant: Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH &
Co. KG

Defendant: Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt
Rundfunk

für privaten

Referring court

Interveners: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg, and 39 others

Corte d'Appello di Torino

Questions referred

Parties to the main proceedings

1. Is a provision like Paragraph 37(1) of the Niedersächsisches
Mediengesetz (Lower Saxony Law on the Media) compatible
with Article 31(1) of
the Universal Service Directive
2002/22/EC if a cable network operator is forced to provide
access, on more than half of
the channels permanently
usable for analogue broadcasting which are available on its
networks, to programmes which — although they do not
cover the whole of the Land of Lower Saxony — are already
being broadcast terrestrially according to the DVB-T stand-
ard?

2. Is a provision like Paragraph 37(1) of the Niedersächsisches
Mediengesetz compatible with Article 31(1) of the Universal

Applicants: Bavaria N.V. and Bavaria Italia Srl

Defendant: Bayerischer Brauerbund e.V

Questions referred

1. Is Council Regulation (EC) No 1347/2001 (1) of 28 June
2001 invalid, possibly as a consequence of the invalidity of
other acts, in light of the following: