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BULGARIA
I.
Transborder TV convention ratified.
Bulgaria [on 3rd March] ratified the Council of Europe
[CE] Convention on Transfrontier Television, the Council
of Europe Press Service said in a press release received
at BTA. Lyudmila Boykova, charge d’affaires ad
interim of Bulgaria to the Council of Europe, [on 3rd
March] handed the instrument of ratification to Daniel
Tarschys, Secretary General of the organization.
The convention
will enter into force for Bulgaria on 1st July
1999. It is already in force for Austria, Cyprus,
Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta,
Norway, Poland, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland,
Turkey, the UK, as well as in the Holy See
[Vatican]. It has also been signed by Estonia,
Greece, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and
Ukraine.
The convention
was the first international treaty to establish a legal
framework, with minimum common rules, for the free
circulation of transfrontier television programmes in
Europe and covers such areas as advertising, sponsorship,
the protection of certain individual rights and the
dissemination of European audio-visual works. The
contracting parties undertake to ensure freedom of
reception and retransmission of transfrontier programmes
which comply with these rules.
BTA news agency, Sofia,
March 3, 1999
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