Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) (No. 2) Order 1989 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 Patents Act 1988 relating to rights in performances. Since that Order was made, Argentina, Australia, Greece, Honduras, Japan, Lesotho and Spain also have become parties to the Rome Convention.

This Order revokes and replaces that Order–

(a) to include those countries in the list of designated countries; and

(b) to modify the entries relating to–

(i) the Federal Republic of Germany following the unification thereof with the German Democratic Republic; and

(ii) Denmark so as to include Greenland as part of that country.