Directive 98/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Directive:

(a)

protected service shall mean any of the following services, where provided against remuneration and on the basis of conditional access:

• television broadcasting, as defined in Article l(a) of Directive 89/552/EEC,

• radio broadcasting, meaning any transmission by wire or over the air, including by satellite, of radio programmes intended for reception by the public,

• information society services within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on information society services(1),

or the provision of conditional access to the above services considered as a service in its own right;

(b)

conditional access shall mean any technical measure and/or arrangement whereby access to the protected service in an intelligible form is made conditional upon prior individual authorisation;

(c)

conditional access device shall mean any equipment or software designed or adapted to give access to a protected service in an intelligible form;

(d)

associated service shall mean the installation, maintenance or replacement of conditional access devices, as well as the provision of commercial communication services in relation to them or to protected services;

(e)

illicit device shall mean any equipment or software designed or adapted to give access to a protected service in an intelligible form without the authorisation of the service provider;

(f)

field coordinated by this Directive shall mean any provision relating to the infringing activities specified in Article 4.

(1)

OJ L 204, 21. 7. 1998, p. 37. Directive as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (OJ L 217, 5. 8. 1998, p. 18).