State treaty on screen text

The State Treaty on Screen Text (briefly called Screen Text State Treaty , Btx State Treaty or BtxStV) was a state treaty between all German federal states , which expired in 1997. It was supposed to create a national legal framework for the screen text offers introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1980s .

history

The State Treaty on Screen Text was signed on March 18, 1983 by the Prime Ministers of the federal states. This was preceded by disputes over competence between the states, the federal government and the German Federal Post Office. In the view of the contracting states, the screen text system was a "new medium in which it was not a matter of clearly delimited individual communication, but rather an ambivalent service that transitions into supra-individual communication". Neither press law (keyword: electronic press ) nor broadcasting law (keyword: broadcasting term ) is relevant.

The BtxStV was amended in 1991. It expired on August 1, 1997. Successor regulations can be found in the - much more comprehensive - State Treaty on Media Services of the States, which together with the Federal Teleservices Act , legally traced the development of the Internet since the early 1990s.

Areas of regulation

The scope of the State Treaty was opened when a "screen text" was available (§ 1 BtxStV). This legal term designated a

Information and communication system intended for everyone as a participant and provider for content use,
in which information and other services for all subscribers or subscriber groups (offers) and individual messages
electronically stored for retrieval,
individually retrieved and using the public telecommunications network and video text switching centers or comparable technical switching devices
could typically be made visible on the screen.

Moving image transmissions were excluded from the scope of the Btx State Treaty. The scope of the Btx State Treaty was limited for orders, banking transactions and closed groups of participants (Section 3 BtxStV).

The main contents of the BtxStV were:

Fundamental right of participation for everyone as a provider or participant (§ 2 BtxStV)
Obligation to identify the provider (§ 5 BtxStV)
Due diligence of the provider (§ 6 BtxStV)
Obligation of the provider to reply (§ 7 BtxStV)
Advertising, protection of minors, data protection (§§ 8-10 BtxStV)

literature

Harald Bartl: Handbook Btx law. With a comment on the State Treaty on Screen Text . Heidelberg 1984. ISBN 3-7685-2383-7 .
Eberhard König: The teletexts. Attempt of a constitutional classification . Munich 1980 ISBN 3-406-07630-0 .
Joachim Scherer: Legal Problems of the State Treaty on Screen Text . Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1983, pp. 1832–1838.
Karl-Heinz Ladeur : Prohibition orders against Btx information offers . Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 1986, pp. 2748–2752.

Web links

State Treaty on Screen Text in the version valid until August 1, 1997

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. the official justification of the State Treaty, printed z. B. in Hessische Landtag-Drucksache 10/642, p. 10 ff. On the constitutional aspects see from the literature z. B. Joachim Scherer, NJW 1983, pp. 1832ff .; Eberhard König: The teletexts. Attempt of a constitutional classification . Munich 1980.
↑ State Treaty on Screen Text of December 6, 1991, see z. B. GVBl. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania I / 91, (No. 42), pp. 580, 609
↑ Art. 2 Ninth State Treaty Amending Broadcasting of July 31, 2006, ratification z. B. in Lower Saxony by law v. January 26, 2007 (NdsGVBl. 2007, p. 54).

[1] Cf. the official justification of the State Treaty, printed z. B. in Hessische Landtag-Drucksache 10/642, p. 10 ff. On the constitutional aspects see from the literature z. B. Joachim Scherer, NJW 1983, pp. 1832ff .; Eberhard König: The teletexts. Attempt of a constitutional classification . Munich 1980.

[2] State Treaty on Screen Text of December 6, 1991, see z. B. GVBl. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania I / 91, (No. 42), pp. 580, 609

[3] Art. 2 Ninth State Treaty Amending Broadcasting of July 31, 2006, ratification z. B. in Lower Saxony by law v. January 26, 2007 (NdsGVBl. 2007, p. 54).