Dieter Gillis is Legal Advisor at Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media. Mr. Gillis (1981, Ghent) obtained his law degree at the University of Ghent in 2004. Afterwards, in 2005, he obtained the European Master in Law and Economics degree (EMLE) as a student of the University of Ghent, having studied in Hamburg (Universität Hamburg), Bologna (Universita di Bologna) and Aix-en-Provence (Université Aix-Marseille III). He joined the ICRI (Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT) team in October 2005 and was involved in four projects which are assigned by IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology).
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Background information The Kinepolis Group NV (hereafter : Kinepolis), the largest cinema chain in Belgium, was formed after a merger in 1997 of Groep Bert and Groep Claeys. The merger had been approved by the Belgian Competition Council under a number of conditions. Those merger remedies (...)
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Background information The decision at hand of the Belgian Competition Council, concerning the request for the revision of the conditions imposed on NV Telenet Bidco (now NV Telenet) as a result of its acquisition of (the Flemish pay TV activities of) NV Canal + in 2003, is one of the (...)
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Background The decision, which is under appeal, is adopted on 19 June 2006 by the Belgian post and telecom regulator, the BIPT/IBPT (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications). Sector specific regulation for electronic communications, as harmonized on European level and (...)
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Draft decision BIPT/IBPT On 26 January 2007 the Competition Council received from the BIPT/IBPT (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications) a draft decision on market 15 : access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks in order to receive advice within 30 (...)
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On September 1st, 2006 the Belgian Competition Council decided Belgacom Mobile (BMB) had to terminate voice calls coming form SIM cards in gateways of the Phone Company (TPC) on its mobile network against end user tariffs (possibly augmented with other costs such as the activation fee per (...)
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Relevant Facts Since January 2003 Tele2 (a Belgian subsidiary of the Swedish Tele2 AB) is active as a telecom operator on the Belgian fixed voice calls market. Tele2 however only owns a backbone network and consequently needs to use the local loop of Belgacom (the incumbent operator) in (...)
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Relevant facts On 9 May 2005, the LBV, a joint selling body with the exclusive right to sell TV broadcasting rights of the Jupiler League on behalf of the participating football clubs, had awarded all the packages of rights to Belgacom Skynet. Telenet, Belgacom’s competitor on the Belgian (...)
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On 29 July 2005 the Belgian Competition Council approved the award of TV broadcasting rights by the Liga Beroepsvoetbal (“LBV”) to Belgacom Skynet, since there was no infringement of Art. 81 EC. The Council has found that the broadcasting rights of matches of the Belgian first (and second) (...)
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In this case Ms. Hermans and Mr. Daniels appealed against the judgment held in first instance by the Commercial Court of Tongeren (handed down on 3 December 1999). The Commercial Court had found Ms. Hermans and Mr. Daniels liable for breach of contract and BF 510.000 (= € 12.642,57) damages (...)
