Examples of using Decoder cards in English and their translations into Bulgarian
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By contrast, Directive 93/83 is not relevant in regard to the use of Arab decoder cards.
Such exploitation is not undermined by the use of Greek decoder cards, as charges were paid for those cards. .
The broadcasting right is also not limited by conditions relating to the issue of decoder cards.
An individual agreement to use decoder cards only for domestic or private use also does not affect that conclusion.
The transmission of football matches is exploited through the charge for the decoder cards.
The FAPL argues convincingly that the importation of decoder cards would make it more difficult, or even impossible, to enforce this closed period.
However, in the present cases there are no contractual relations between the rights-holders and the providers of decoder cards in the United Kingdom or the publicans.
Users of domestic decoder cards cannot show any matches during the closed periods, whereas users of imported cards can.
The FAPL takes the view that the directive prohibits the use of decoder cards outside the area assigned to them.
It is therefore irrelevant whether decoder cards were procured and/or enabled in the other Member State by the provision of a false name and a false residential address.
The exclusivity agreement also imposes restrictions on the circulation of authorised decoder cards outside the territory of each licensee.
These proceedings refer to the use of foreign decoder cards in the UK to access foreign satellite transmissions of live Premier Leagues football matches.
As Ms Murphy rightly submits, those circumstances cannot influence the application of the fundamental freedoms in relation to the final customers for the decoder cards.
The ECJ said last autumn that national laws that prohibit the import, sale oruse of foreign decoder cards were contrary to the freedom to provide services.
An individual agreement to use decoder cards only for domestic or private use also cannot justify a territorial restriction of freedom to provide services.
In Greece, the sub-licensee was(and remains) NetMed Hellas SA,which in practical terms was prohibited by contract from supplying the relevant decoder cards outside Greece.
The actions relate to the use of foreign decoder cards in the United Kingdom to access foreign satellite transmissions of live Premier League football matches.
Furthermore, QC Leisure and AV Station have allegedly infringed the copyrights by authorising the acts perpetrated by the defendants in the third action,as well as by other persons to whom they have supplied decoder cards.
As decoder cards have been brought from Greece into the United Kingdom, the free movement of goods under Article 34 TFEU(formerly Article 28 EC)(56) may be applicable.
The latter would have to fear that their services will be used in the United Kingdom without remuneration orat least that the rates which they charge will be circumvented in the United Kingdom by means of the importation of decoder cards from other Member States.
Undertakings import decoder cards from abroad, in the present cases from Greece and Arab States, into the United Kingdom and offer them to pubs there at more favourable prices than the broadcaster in that State.
The system of contracts includes a covenant of exclusivity that the FAPL will appoint only onebroadcaster within any particular territory and restrictions on the circulation of authorised decoder cards outside the territory of each licensee.
In the view of QC Leisure and others,the actions are unfounded because they are not using pirate decoder cards, all of the cards in question having been issued and placed upon the market, in another Member State, by the relevant satellite broadcaster.
The breach of contractual agreements concerning the accessibility of programmes in certain Member States, the provision of false names and/or addresses in the acquisition of access devices or the use,for commercial purposes, of decoder cards intended for private or domestic use are not measures to combat illicit devices.
Indeed, according to FAPL,the broadcaster selling the cheapest decoder cards has the potential to become, in practice, the broadcaster at European level, which would result in broadcast rights in the European Union having to be granted at European level.
(15) If the European Union legislature actually intended to protect the geographical partitioning of television markets andto impose sanctions on the mere circumvention of that partitioning through the importation into other Member States of decoder cards which are licit in their State of origin, it ought therefore to have expressed this with much greater clarity.
Two of the actions have been brought against suppliers of equipment and satellite decoder cards to pubs and bars, which make possible the reception of non-Sky satellite channels(including NOVA channels) that carry live Premier League matches.
The practice of marketing decoder cards follows this logic, since the broadcasting organisations charge pubs a higher fee for using decoder cards, whilst they enjoin private customers to use their cards only for domestic or private purposes.
According to the Advocate General,the contractual obligation linked to the broadcasting licences requiring the broadcaster to prevent its satellite decoder cards from being used outside the licensed territory has the same effect as agreements to prevent or restrict parallel exports.
If the FAPL cannot prevent the use of cheaper decoder cards from other Member States, the possibility cannot be discounted that in future it will offer transmission rights only in the most lucrative market in the European Union- the United Kingdom- or make the service offered on other markets conditional on the charging of prices similar to those in the United Kingdom.