Article 3 Meaning of “original productions” for licensed public service channels
In section 278 of the Communications Act 2003 (programming quotas for original productions), references, in relation to a licensed public service channel, to “original productions” are references to programmes of the following description, namely, programmes which—
(a)
are commissioned by or for a licensed public service channel with a view to their first showing on television in the United Kingdom being either—
(i)
on that channel, or
(ii)
in the case of a Channel 3 service, on that service or on another Channel 3 service; and
(b)
are European programmes.