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Schedule 3 COUNTRIES ENJOYING PROTECTION IN RESPECT OF BROADCASTS

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(The countries specified in this Schedule either are parties to the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations and/or the European Agreement on the Protection of Television Broadcasts or otherwise give adequate protection under their law.)

  • Argentina (2nd March 1992)

  • Australia (30th September 1992)

  • Austria (9th June 1973)

  • Barbados (18th September 1983)

  • Belgium (8th March 1968—television only)

  • Brazil (29th September 1965)

  • Burkina Faso (14th January 1988)

  • Chile (5th September 1974)

  • Colombia (17th September 1976)

  • Congo (18th May 1964)

  • Costa Rica (9th September 1971)

  • Cyprus, Republic of (5th May 1970

  • Czechoslovakia (14th August 1964)

  • Denmark (including Greenland and the Faeroe Islands) (1st February 1962—television; 1st July 1965—non-television)

  • Dominican Republic (27th January 1987)

  • Ecuador (18th May 1964)

  • El Salvador (29th June 1979)

  • Fiji (I 11th April 1972)

  • Finland (21st October 1983)

  • France (including 11 Overseas Departments and Territories) (1st July 1961—television; 3rd July 1987—television only)

  • 1987—non-television)

  • Germany (21st October 1966)

  • Greece (6th January 1993)

  • Guatemala (14th January 1977)

  • Honduras (16th February 1990)

  • Ireland, Republic of (19th September 1979)

  • Italy (8th April 1975)

  • Japan (26th October 1989)

  • Lesotho (26th January 1990)

  • Luxembourg (25th February 1976)

  • Malawi (22nd June 1989)

  • Malaysia (1st June 1957)

  • Mexico (18th May 1964)

  • Monaco (6th December 1985)

  • Niger (18th May 1964)

  • Norway (lOth August 1968—television; 10th July 1978—non-television)

  • Panama (2nd September 1983)

  • Paraguay (26th February 1970)

  • Peru (7th August 1985)

  • Philippines (25th September 1984)

  • Singapore (1st June 1957)

  • Spain (19th November 1971—television; 14th November 1991—non-television)

  • Sweden (1st July 1961—television; 18th May 1964—non-television)

  • Uruguay (4th July 1977)