CELEX: C2007/247/07
Language: en
Date: 2007-10-20 00:00:00
Title: 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

20.10.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 247/5
            
         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
   (Case C-336/07)
   (2007/C 247/07)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Verwaltungsgericht Hannover
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Kabel Deutschland Vertrieb und Service GmbH & Co. KG
   
      Defendant: Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt für privaten Rundfunk
   
      Interveners: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg, and 39 others
   Questions referred
   
               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 standard?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Is a provision like Paragraph 37(1) of the Niedersächsisches Mediengesetz compatible with Article 31(1) of the Universal 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 Directive 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?