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Directive 98/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 1998 on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access is a
European Union directive A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result. Directives first have to be enacted into national law by member states before thei ...
in the field of intellectual property law, made under the internal market provisions of the
Treaty of Rome The Treaty of Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the best known of the European Communities (EC). The treaty was sig ...
. The Directive covers "conditional access services", which are defined as television or radio broadcasts or internet services to which "access ..in an intelligible form is made conditional upon prior individual authorisation" and payment. Examples are
pay-per-view Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast. Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program g ...
and encrypted television and internet sites which charge for access. Member States may not restrict the provision of conditional access services which originate in another Member State rt. 3(2) Devices intended to circumvent the access restrictions are prohibited (Art. 4). The convention formed the basis for the Conditional Access Convention, a convention of the
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, to which the European Union is a party.


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Directive 98/84/EC – text

Directive 98/84/EC – national implementing measures

Directive 98/84/EC – adoption procedure
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Copyright law of the European Union The copyright law of the European Union is the copyright law applicable within the European Union. Copyright law is largely harmonized in the Union, although country to country differences exist. The body of law was implemented in the EU through ...
Intellectual property law of the European Union European Union directives 1998 in law 1998 in the European Union {{EU-law-stub