Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 79 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 provides for the regulation of foreign satellite programmes. Subsection (5) of that section defines such programmes as those which are transmitted by satellite from a place outside the United Kingdom other than programmes so transmitted from within any country specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of that subsection.

This Order specifies those countries for the purposes of that subsection.

This Order revokes and re-enacts the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 1991 and the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) (Amendment) Order 1993 with amendments consisting of the addition of certain countries.

Countries are specified by this Order as one of the steps necessary to implement—

(a)

Council Directive 89/552/EEC^f1 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities as extended by the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992^f2 together with the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993^f3; and

(b)

the European Convention on Transfrontier Television^f4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: OJ No. L298, 17.10.89, p.23.
f2: Cm. 2073.
f3: Cm. 2183.
f4: Cm. 2178.