17th Dec 2012 07:00
GRUPO CLARIN S.A.
Court Extends Scope of Cablevisión Injunction
On 14 December 2012, Grupo Clarín S.A. (the "Company") Grupo Clarín S.A. (the "Company") informed the Argentine Securities Commission and the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange that its subsidiary Cablevisión S.A. ("Cablevisión") had been served notice of a decision rendered by Federal Civil and Commercial Court No. 3 in re "Cablevisión S.A. c/ Estado Nacional Secretaría de Comunicaciones s/amparo", whereby that court extended the scope of the existing injunction by adding parties that had to be served notice of its issuance. The court ordered the National Government - Secretariat of Communications to implement the means necessary to communicate to the Audiovisual Communication Services Law Federal Enforcement Authority (AFSCA)-a decentralized agency-the scope and effectiveness of such injunction.
Attached is a free translation of the relevant sections of the decision.
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Free translation
National Judicial Branch
Federal Civil and Commercial Court 3
7367/2011
CABLEVISIÓN SA V/ NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT OF COMMUNICATIONS RE: AMPARO.
Buenos Aires, 6 December 2012.- AMA
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Therefore, given that the defendant in this claim is the National Government-of which said agency is a part-and given the scope of the injunction that orders it to abstain "from enforcing SC Resolution No. 100/2010 and/or affecting in any way the effective rendering of the Internet access service offered by Fibertel (Cablevisión)…", [this Court] makes it known to the NATIONAL GOVERNMENT - SECRETARIAT OF COMMUNICATIONS, that it must implement the means necessary to communicate to the AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION SERVICES LAW FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY (AFSCA)-a decentralized agency-the scope and effectiveness of such injunction. […]
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