CEDH · PRESS;HEARINGS;ENG — 6 janvier 2010

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THE NETHERLANDS   The European Court of Human Rights is holding a Grand Chamber hearing today Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 9.15 a.m. , in the case of Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands (application no. 38224/03).   The hearing will be broadcast from 2.30 p.m. on the Court’s Internet site ( http://www.echr.coe.int ).     The applicant, Sanoma Uitgevers B.V., is a limited liability company incorporated under Netherlands law which specialises in the publication and marketing of magazines and has its registered office in Hoofddorp (Netherlands).   Relying on Article   10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights, the applicant company complains that it was ordered to surrender a CD-ROM which was liable to reveal the identity of journalistic sources who, having been promised anonymity, had provided information about an illegal street car race organised in January 2002, at which photographs had been taken by the applicant company.   In its judgment of 31 March 2009 the Chamber examining the application, noting that in principle the compulsory handover of journalistic material could have a chilling effect on the exercise of journalistic freedom of expression, found that there had been nothing to prevent the domestic authorities from balancing the competing interests. The Chamber held in particular that, while the information contained on the CD-ROM which the applicant company had been ordered to hand over to the authorities was such as to enable its journalistic sources to be identified, the information had been relevant to, and capable of identifying the perpetrators of, other crimes which were of a serious nature and were unrelated to the illegal street race; furthermore, the authorities had made use of the information only for that purpose. The Chamber held by four votes to three that there had been no violation of Article   10 of the Convention.   On 14 September 2009 the case was referred to the Grand Chamber under Article   30 [1] at the request of the applicant company.   The case will be heard by the Grand Chamber composed as follows:   Jean-Paul Costa (France), President , Christos Rozakis (Greece), Nicolas Bratza (the United Kingdom), Peer Lorenzen (Denmark), Françoise Tulkens (Belgium), Karel Jungwiert (the Czech Republic), Rait Maruste (Estonia) Khanlar Hajiyev (Azerbaijan), Egbert Myjer (the Netherlands), Sverre Erik Jebens (Norway), Dragoljub Popović (Serbia), Mark Villiger (Liechtenstein), Isabelle Berro-Lefèvre (Monaco), Päivi Hirvelä (Finland), George Nicolaou (Cyprus), Zdravka Kalaydjieva (Bulgaria), Nebojša Vučinić (Montenegro), judges , Mihai Poalelungi (Moldova), Elisabeth Steiner (Austria), Dean Spielmann (Luxembourg), substitute judges , and also Michael O’Boyle , Deputy Registrar .   Representatives of the parties   Government :   Roeland Böcker , Agent ,   Tessa Dopheide , Jitske Jarigsma, Advisers ;   Applicant :   Otto Volgenant, Ilan de Vré, Tonie Broekhuijsen, Fanny Glazenburg, Jetze Jansen, Counsel .     ***   After the hearing the Court will begin its deliberations, which are held in private. A decision will be adopted at a later date. [2]   Press contacts Stefano Piedimonte (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 42 04) Tracey Turner-Tretz (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 30) Kristina Pencheva-Malinowski (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 88 41 35 70) Céline Menu-Lange (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 58 77) Frédéric Dolt (telephone : 00 33 (0)3 90 21 53 39) Nina Salomon (telephone: 00 33 (0)3 90 21 49 79)   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights.   [1] Where a case pending before a Chamber raises a serious question affecting the interpretation of the Convention or the protocols thereto, or where the resolution of a question before the Chamber might have a result inconsistent with a judgment previously delivered by the Court, the Chamber may, at any time before it has rendered its judgment, relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Grand Chamber, unless one of the parties to the case objects. [2] This summary by the Registry does not bind the Court.