Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 October 2015

New Media Online GmbH v Bundeskommunikationssenat and Der Bundeskanzler

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2010/13/EU — Concepts of ‘programme’ and ‘audiovisual media service’ — Determination of the principal purpose of an audiovisual media service — Comparability of the service to television broadcasting — Inclusion of short videos in a section of a newspaper’s website available on the Internet

Case C-347/14


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
27/11/2015 New Media Online
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2015:709
21/10/2015 New Media Online
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2015:709
21/10/2015 New Media Online
Application (OJ)
05/09/2014 New Media Online
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2015:434
01/07/2015 New Media Online
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 18/07/2014

Date of the Opinion

  • 01/07/2015

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

21/10/2015


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 414 from 14.12.2015, p.7

Application: OJ C 329 from 22.09.2014, p.5

Name of the parties

New Media Online

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Picod, Fabrice: Précisions sur la notion de "service de médias audiovisuels"... à la demande du juge national, La Semaine Juridique - édition générale 2015 nº 44 p.1996 (FR)
  2. Skubic, Zoran: Je ponudba kratkih videoposnetkov na spletišču časopisa avdiovizualna medijska storitev po pravu EU?, Pravna praksa 2015 nº 44 p.28-29 (SL)
  3. Gazin, Fabienne: Communications audiovisuelles, Europe 2015 Décembre Comm. nº 12 p.32 (FR)
  4. Derieux, Emmanuel: Arrêt "New Media Online" : les éléments vidéos d'un site de presse sont-ils soumis aux règles des médias audiovisuels ?, Journal de droit européen 2015 nº 224 p.401-402 (FR)
  5. Sammarco, Pieremilio: Verso l'assimilazione della figura dell'editore on-line a quella di fornitore di servizi di media audiovisivi, Il diritto dell'informazione e dell'informatica 2016 p.113-118 (IT)
  6. Klafkowska-Waśniowska, Katarzyna: Elektroniczne wersje gazet i czasopism a audiowizualne usługi medialne w prawie Unii Europejskiej i prawie polskim - glosa do wyroku Trybunału Sprawiedliwości z 21.10.2015 r. w sprawie C-347/14 New Media Online GmbH przeciwko Bundeskommunikationssenat, Europejski Przegląd Sądowy 2016 Vol. 8 p.45-50 (PL)
  7. Spindler, Gerald: Europarecht - Bereitstellung von Videos auf Webseiten als "Sendung", Juristenzeitung 2016 p.147-150 (DE)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Verwaltungsgerichtshof - Austria

Subject-matter

  • Freedom to provide services

Provisions of national law referred to

Bundesgesetz über audiovisuelle Mediendienste (Audiovisuelle Mediendienste-Gesetz - AMD-G), Paragraphen 2 und 9

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Lenaerts

Advocate General

Szpunar

Language(s) of the Case

  • German

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • Polish