Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive:
1. 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 ,
or the provision of conditional access to the above services considered as a service in its own right;
2. 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;
3. conditional access device shall mean any equipment or software designed or adapted to give access to a protected service in an intelligible form;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. field coordinated by this Directive shall mean any provision relating to the infringing activities specified in Article 4.
OJ L 204, 21. 7. 1998, p. 37. Directive as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (OJ L 217, 5. 8. 1998, p. 18).