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A presidential decree (no. 100/2000) has just been published in the official gazette, transposing into domestic law the provisions of Directive 97/36/EC of 30 June 1997. The decree covers the full text of Directive 89/552/EEC on "Television without frontiers", as amended in 1997. In accordance with this decree, the Minister for the Press and the Mass Media may, further to a suitable opinion or following a proposal from the National Radio and Television Council (NRTC), order an advance ban on the re-broadcasting of programmes broadcast by television bodies under the supervision of other Member...

A new law (2644/1998) governing pay-services on radio and television came into force on 9 October 1998. This law applies to any service to which public access is subject to the conditions (e.g., possession of a decoder, payment of a subscription) laid down by the "authorisation-holder", whatever the mode (analogue or digital) or route (terrestrial, satellite or cable) of broadcasting. Article 2 of the law contains rules intended to avoid abuse of a dominant position in the audio-visual sector in broad terms, including both pay-television and "free reception". Any authorisation-holder (which must...

The Official Journal of 27 February contained a call for applications for the allocation of six authorisations to operate a nationwide television service, setting out the conditions to be met for such an authorisation to be awarded. Applicants must be legal entities (local authority undertakings, commercial companies, associations, etc). The application file must be submitted to the Minister for the Press and the Mass Media, together with payment of the sum of five million drachmas to the Greek State. Applicants must include documents enabling the Minister to check compliance with legislative...

In IRIS 1996-5: 7-10 we published an overview of the state of Signatures and Ratifications of European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audiovisual sector. The listing of when States became Party to the Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite (printed on page 8) is, however, not correct. Accidentily it reproduces the dates on which States became Party to the Berne Convention for the protection of copyright of literary and artistic works (as printed on page 7). The correct date on which States became Party...

On 17 November 1995, Greece signed the European Convention on cinematographic co-production. Greece has not yet ratified the Convention or made the Declaration designating the authority for which co-production status applications shall be submitted. Such a declaration is required by Article 5 of the Convention. A complete overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of the European Conventions that are relevant to the audiovisual sector was published in IRIS 1995-1: 16-18. In IRIS 1995-3: 11-14 all Declarations and Reservations of the State Parties to the different European Conventions...