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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-479/annex/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/479",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 25 June 2007 on the compatibility with Community law of measures taken by Belgium pursuant to Article 3a(1) of Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (2007/479/EC)",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "FRENCH COMMUNITY",
  "text": "1.\nBroadcasting Decree\n[…]\nArt. 4 § 1\nAfter consulting the CSA, the Government may adopt a list of events which it considers to be of major importance for the public of the French Community. Such events may not be subject to the exercise of exclusive rights by a television broadcaster or by the RTBF, such as to deprive a large part of the public in that Community of access to these events via a free-access television service.\nThe Government shall determine whether the events are to be transmitted live, deferred, in full or in excerpts.\nArt. 4 § 2\nAn event is considered to be of major importance for the public of the French Community if it meets at least two of the following criteria:\n1.. the event is particularly popular with the public of the French Community in general, not just those who follow such events as a matter of course;\n2.. the event has a cultural importance generally recognised by the public of the French Community and is part of that Community's cultural identity;\n3.. a Belgian personality or team is participating in the event concerned in the context of a competition or event of international importance;\n4.. the event is traditionally broadcast in a programme of a free-access television service in the French Community and attracts a wide public.\nAfter consulting the CSA, the Government may adopt the procedures by which the abovementioned events have to be made accessible.\nArt. 4 § 3\nA television broadcasting service is considered to be “free-access” if it broadcasts in the French language and can be received by 90 % of households with television reception equipment located in the French-speaking region or the bilingual Brussels-Capital region. Apart from the technical costs, reception of this service cannot be subject to payment other than the subscription price for the basic cable package.\nArt. 4 § 4\nTelevision broadcasters and the RTBF shall refrain from exercising any exclusive rights they might have acquired after 30 July 1997, such as would deprive a large part of the public of a Member State of the European Union of access via a free-access television service to events of major importance, a list of which has been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.\nThey shall comply with the special conditions set at the time of publication of the abovementioned lists, concerning live or deferred access, in full or in excerpts.\n2.\nOrder designating events of major importance and determining the procedures for making them accessible\nArticle 1\nWithin the limits laid down in this order, access by the public of the French Community to these events shall be live, deferred, in full or in excerpts, in accordance with the Annex to this order.\nArticle 2\nA television broadcaster service in the French Community intending to exercise the exclusive broadcasting rights it holds to an event of major importance must broadcast it on a free-access television service in accordance with the Annex to this Order.\nArticle 3\nA television broadcaster which has acquired the live-and-in-full transmission rights to an event may nevertheless postpone the broadcasting of this event on a free-access television broadcasting service in the following cases:\nif the event takes place between midnight and 8 a.m., Belgian time;\nif the event coincides with a news or current affairs programme normally broadcast by the service at that time;\nif the event comprises several elements taking place simultaneously.\nArticle 4\nThis Order does not create any broadcasting obligation for the head of RTBF or the television broadcasting services of the French Community.\nArticle 5\nThe Minister for Audiovisual is responsible for the implementation of this Order.\nBrussels, 8 June 2004.\nFor the Government of the French Community\nThe Minister for Audiovisual\nO. CHASTEL\n3.\nAnnex to the Order\nList of events and categories of events of major importance and arrangements for free public access to them:\nSummer and Winter Olympic Games, live and with excerpts;\nBelgian Football Cup Final (men), live and in full;\nAll matches involving the Belgian men's football team, live and in full;\nFootball World Cup Finals Tournament (men), live and in full;\nEuropean Football Championship, final round (men), live and in full;\nChampions League, matches involving Belgian clubs, live and in full;\nUEFA Cup, matches involving Belgian clubs, live and in full;\nTour de France, men, professional, live and with excerpts;\nLiège-Bastogne-Liège, live and with excerpts;\nAmstel Gold Race, live and with excerpts;\nTour of Flanders, live and with excerpts;\nParis-Roubaix, live and with excerpts;\nMilan-San Remo, live and with excerpts;\nBelgian Road Cycling Championships, professional (men), live and with excerpts;\nWorld Road Cycling Championships, professional (men), live and with excerpts;\nIvo Van Damme Memorial, live and in full;\nBelgian Formula 1 Grand Prix, live and in full;\nThe following Grand Slam tennis tournaments: Roland Garros and Wimbledon, quarter finals, semi-finals and finals involving a Belgian player, live and in full;\nThe Davis Cup and the Fed Cup, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals involving the Belgian team, live and in full;\nQueen Elisabeth Music Competition, the final, live and in full;\nLa Flèche wallonne, live and with excerpts;\nWorld Athletics Championships, where Belgian athletes are taking part, live and in full;\nTo be annexed to the order of 8 June 2004.\nThe Minister for Audiovisual\nO. CHASTEL",
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