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Explanatory note

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The Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) Order 1993 designated certain countries, all parties to the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (the Rome Convention) (Cmnd. 2425), as enjoying reciprocal protection under the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 relating to rights in performances.

Bolivia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Slovak Republic and Switzerland also have become parties to the Rome Convention. This Order revokes and replaces the 1993 Order —

(a)

to include those countries in the list of designated countries; and

(b)

to omit the entry relating to Czechoslovakia.