Translation of "Organisme de télévision et de câblo-distribution " (French → English) :

a review of the 'must carry' obligations in the Member States on telecommunications operators to carry the public service broadcasters, the market trends and whether further measures are needed to promote the distribution of the public service broadcasters;

9. Accepts that "must-carry" rules remain justified in the digital broadcasting environment and that the regulatory framework must take full account of the need to ensure universal access to public service content; believes that this can be achieved through the use of "must-carry" rules on key networks and guarantees of access for public service content through other key distribution networks and facilities such as set-top boxes and receivers; believes that such content should be easily accessible and prominently displayed on navigators or guides, provided that such rules are proportionate and limited to those channels that that are co ...[+++]vered by a public service broadcast remit such as that defined in the Protocol annexed to the EC Treaty on the system of public service broadcasting in the Member States and that operators subject to such rules, where deemed appropriate by Member States, receive reasonable remuneration, taking into account the non-profit nature of public service broadcasting and the value of these broadcast channels to operators; takes the view that, in the case of possible commercial activities of public broadcasters, general competition law must be applied and no cross-subsidies allowed, in order to ensure interoperability in the digital television market and in broadcasting content and services;

In order to encourage the distribution and production of European television programmes, Member States must ensure where practicable that broadcasters reserve for European works a majority proportion of their transmission time, excluding the time allocated to news, sports events, games, advertising and teletext and teleshopping services (Article 4).

In order to encourage the distribution and production of European television programmes, Member States must ensure where practicable that broadcasters reserve for European works a majority proportion of their transmission time, excluding the time allocated to news, sports events, games, advertising and teletext and teleshopping services (Article 4).

Dominant position In its investigation the Commission found that the NSD joint venture in its current form would create or strengthen a dominant position on three markets: (i) On the market for provision of satellite TV transponder capacity to the Nordic region (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland), NSD would achieve a dominant position (ii) On the Danish market for operation of cable TV networks, TD's dominant position would be strengthened (iii) On the market for distribution of satellite pay-TV and other encrypted TV channels to direct-to-home households, NSD would obtain a dominant position.

The project, which was notified to the Commission on 23 February last, is mainly concerned with the distribution of television channels to cable distributors, operators of multiple-user antennae and individuals with dish aerials through the leasing of satellite capacity covering the Nordic region (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland).