1994 No. 453
BROADCASTING

The Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 1994

Made
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 79(5) of the Broadcasting Act 19901, hereby makes the following Order:

1.

This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 14th March 1994.

2.

The countries listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified countries for the purposes of section 79(5) of the Broadcasting Act 1990.

3.

The Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 19912 and the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) (Amendment) Order 19933 are hereby revoked.
Peter Brooke
Secretary of State for National Heritage

SCHEDULESPECIFIED COUNTRIES

Article 2

  • Austria

  • Belgium

  • Cyprus

  • Denmark

  • Germany

  • Finland

  • France

  • Greece

  • Holy See

  • Iceland

  • Ireland

  • Italy

  • Luxembourg

  • Malta

  • Netherlands

  • Norway

  • Poland

  • Portugal

  • San Marino

  • Spain

  • Sweden

  • Switzerland

  • Turkey

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 79 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 provides for the regulation of foreign satellite programmes. Subsection (5) of that section defines such programmes as those which are transmitted by satellite from a place outside the United Kingdom other than programmes so transmitted from within any country specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of that subsection.

This Order specifies those countries for the purposes of that subsection.

This Order revokes and re-enacts the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 1991 and the Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) (Amendment) Order 1993 with amendments consisting of the addition of certain countries.

Countries are specified by this Order as one of the steps necessary to implement—

(a)
Council Directive 89/552/EEC4 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities as extended by the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19925 together with the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 19936; and
(b)
the European Convention on Transfrontier Television7.