Examples of using Foreign programmes in English and their translations into German
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Requirements as to the content of foreign programmes.
Now you see, all foreign programmes, they are all dirty.
Even in 1979 more thanone in three television viewers in Flanders opted for foreign programmes.
In this respect foreign programmes are bound to encroach upon national radio and television systems.
Do I still have to pay licence fees even if I only watch foreign programmes via satellite?
Among the foreign programmes,"gardens of the world"(United Kingdom),"Luxury hotels of the world» France.
The Act also allows cable companies to transmit national, regional and foreign programmes Article 48.
The authorization obliges the licensee to remove from foreign programmes everything in the nature of advertising, in whatever form Section 40.
A rapid review of the differing situations in three Member States will illustrate the incentive effect of broadcasting foreign programmes where cable financing is concerned.
Ut the position changes drastically once the foreign programmes are received oy domestic transmitters and relayed either as wireless signals or by cable.
The idea under Articles 59 and 62 of the Treaty, together with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights,is to provide cross-frontier broadcasts and flow of information and, precisely, to keep foreign programmes independent from the receiving state's own system.
A licence"obliges the licensee to remove from foreign programmes everything in the nature of advertising, in whatever form" Section 40, first paragraph.
The main legal conditions imposed are a ban on"active" cable television, which, with a few exceptions, still applies in all Member States, the obligation to broadcast national programmes within the service area andthe requirements attaching to the transmission of foreign programmes.
It requires, as a correlative to the dependence on cable, the guarantee that foreign programmes will be receivable via the cable.
If a national legislature were to venture to extend such rules to foreign programmes to be rebroadcast within the country, it would not only have to consider whether this was permissible under its own law-especially constitutional law- but also whether it was justified under the law of the Human Rights Convention(reservation in Article 10(2)) and Community law reservation of the general interest.
In case of doubt,. it is highly desirable that the legislature should authorize or permit exceptions, in the case of foreign programmes relayed within the country, from the requirements imposed on national programmes. .
The Ministry of Culture has considered whether the/proposed/ wider transmission of foreign programmes/received via micr£wave links, long-distance cable and telecommunications satellites/ by Danish cable networks necessitates special provisions relating to responsibility for the content of the programmes relayed, including provisions on the content of any advertising.
Only if the branch in the country concerned receives the programmes of its parent company and rebroadcasts or redistributes them by cable may national radio and television law apply,i.e. make the branch and its foreign programmes subject to its provisions where its application is justified by the general good see Section VI.
By contrast, subscription fees in respect of the transmission of foreign programmes from other Member States could be a new source of finance, on top of the broadcasting organizations' conventional sources of revenue.
Where this is the case,statutory and official discrimination against the relaying of foreign programmes using these three methods of delivering broadcasts is also prohibited under Articles 59 and 62.
This is because an arrangement of this kindwould expressly recognize the cable retransmission of foreign programmes as involving questions of copyright and would thus remove the justification for certain transmission practices.
However, it added the adjective"national" to the word"programmes"1andthereby made it clear that the task of subjecting foreign programmes which may be received in Germany to the national requirements regarding balance cannot fall to the German legislator.
The problems discussed in this section are taking on growing importance:the more the individual citizen is or becomes etwork in order to receive foreign programmes, dependent on a cable n and the longer he has to wait for DBS reception, the greater is the temptation to misuse cable in order to curtail by means of discriminatory rules and practices the freedom to provide cross-frontier broadcasting guaranteed by Articles 59 and 62.
In the Netherlands foreign programme viewing varies between 20 and 25% of total viewing.
Rules are not permissible which stipulate, for example, that the domestic programmes must be included first and those from other Member States afterwards, or that such a foreign programme may be displaced from the cable system in favour of a new domestic programme e.g. by withdrawing the authorization.
Could a Member State require broadcasting companies established in another Member State broadcasting programmes in this country which can also be picked up in the Member State concerned to set up a subsidiary, branch or agency in this Member Stateto assume legal responsibility and liability for the foreign programme or to at least appoint an authorized agent in this Member State for this purpose?