Annual Report 1999

CHAPTER 4 - PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN 1999

Nico van Eijk
Chief researcher (part-time).
He is also a legal adviser in the area of media and telecommunications with Rabobank International and Nauta Dutilh attorneys.

(with E.J. Dommering, J.A.M. Nijhof, M.L. Verberne, with the assistance of P. Burger, N. Sitompoel), Handboek Telecommunicatierecht, Inleiding tot het recht en de techniek van de telecommunicatie, The Hague: SDU Uitgevers 1999, p. 855.

[description, see Egbert Dommering]

‘Broadband Services and Local Loop Unbundling in the Netherlands’, IEEE Communications Magazine, 1999-10, vol. 37, pp. 106-110.

Contribution discussing the availability of broadband access in the Netherlands.

‘Telecomadvisering kent gouden tijden’, I&I, Informatie & Informatiebeleid, 1999-17, pp. 7-9.

Short contribution (example) on the role of advisers in the telecommunications sector.

‘Concessiewet: no guts, no glory’, Mediaforum, 1999-10, pp. 272-275.

Critical discussion of the draft amendment of the Media Act in connection with the introduction of a renewed concession system for national broadcasting.

‘De macht van het getal’, Mediaforum, 1999-13, pp. 343-344.

Discussion of the number of networks for public broadcasting in connection with the inaugural speech of Gerard Schuijt in 1993.

Publications:

‘Waarom geen dwangsom per 1 januari’, Telecombrief, 1999-5, p. 66.

Brief analysis of the introduction of number portability as of 1 January 1999. 

‘Frequentiebeleid: back to zero’, Telecombrief, 1999-23, p. 354.

Description of the problems on a new distribution of frequencies for radio broadcasting. 

(with A.W. Hins and G.A.I. Schuijt), Media- en telecommunicatierecht, Ars Aequi Katern 70, pp. 3454-3456 (Ars Aequi 1999-3); 71, pp. 3530-3532 (Ars Aequi 1999-6); 72, pp. 3595-3597 (Ars Aequi 1999-9); 73, pp. 3667-3670 (Ars Aequi 1999-12).

[description, see Gerard Schuijt]

Various contributions to IRIS.

Lectures:

‘Nowhere to hide’, Europhil Trust, NGOs for Transparency and against Corruption, Amsterdam, 27-28 January.

‘Telecom financing’, Global Telecommunications Society, Amsterdam, 25 November.

Other activities:

Guest lecture on telecommunications law, Film and Television Science Dept., University of Amsterdam, 22 February.

Support for the Advisory Committee on Cross-ownership Rules in the media sector (Stb 1998, 469).

Organization of round table conference on ‘Frequencies for Broadcasting’, Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, 8 May.

‘Introduction to Telecommunications Law’, PAO lecture on Telecommunications Law, University of Amsterdam, 19 November.

‘Numbers and Domain Names’, PAO lecture on Telecommunications Law, University of Amsterdam, 26 November.

‘Fixed infrastructure and broadcasting networks’, PAO lecture on Telecommunications Law, University of Amsterdam, 17 December.

Positions:

- daily management of the Organization of Local Broadcasters in the Netherlands (OLON);
- board of directors of the Association for Media and Communications Law (VMC);
- board of directors of the Global Telecommunication Society (GTS);
- scientific advisory board for the Centre for Spoken Literature (CGL);
- Telecommunications advisory board, Euroforum;
- Highway 2066 advisory committee;
- NL preliminary consultation of the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management;
- Dutch representative in the group of specialists on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access (MM-S-CA), Council of Europe, Strasbourg.