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The approval procedure for new supply channels of the public broadcaster is being revised. This is evident from a letter from State Secretary Sander Dekker to the House of Representatives. In the proposed changes, Dekker also relies on research conducted by Dialogic (2015) into the procedure in the Netherlands and surrounding countries. Dekker intends to adjust the procedure on the following four points:
- Stakeholders can submit a substantiated request to initiate an approval procedure;
- A new moment of consultation will be added to the procedure, immediately after the publication of an application, and this will be anchored in the regulations;
- It will be stipulated in legislation that a market impact analysis is part of the procedure; and
- The formal assessment criteria for determining the impact of a new supply channel on the market will be legally anchored.
Particularly, the changes regarding the market impact analysis have received attention from the media, including Elsevier, NOS, NU, and Telegraaf.
Dialogic carried out this research in the summer of 2015. Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Dialogic compared the procedure in the Netherlands with those in Denmark, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Flanders. The full research can be downloaded from the Rijksoverheid website.