ARTICLE · 08 FEBRUARY 1996
Regulation of Telecommunications and Broadcasting - Liberalization of Satellite
On February 6, 1996, the Italian government enacted Law no. 52 providing, among other things, for the elimination of exclusive and special rights in satellite services in conformance with European Council Directive no. 64 of October 14, 1994. Law 52/96 provides entrepreneurs with the right to import, sell, attach to, and install ground transmission stations for connection with satellites. All exclusive rights on such services are eliminated, and all prohibitions on the offer of transmission capacity in space are removed.
As discussed in a separate entry on this data base, the Italian Antitrust Authority has noted in a discussion of previous Italian law that, "capacity in the space sector may be acquired exclusively by the present, sole provider of telecommunications services," Telecom Italia S.p.A. To correct this, the Authority suggested that management of satellite transmission capacity offered by the Intergovernmental Satellite Organizations be attributed to a Ministry or
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