Traduction de «digital television set » (Anglais → Français) :

24. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to inform the public about future developments in digital interactive television services, and recommends that digital television service providers take active steps to inform users about existing interactive services;

9. Calls on the Member States to speed up the transfer to digital television, taking account of market demand and topographical and regional demographic factors, and calls on those Member States which have not yet drawn up a national plan for the full switchover to digital television to do so by the end of 2008;

15. Notes the conclusions of the Lisbon seminar on digital terrestrial television and the activities relating to digital video broadcasting (DVB), and calls on the Council and the Member States to take steps in order to achieve a gradual and agreed move to digital television, in particular digital terrestrial television;

This provision could also restrict the free movement of television signal decoders (in violation of Article 30) and restrict the use of these decoders to access conditional access services originating in other Member States, such as encrypted television channels (and so violate Article 59). * The requirement for prior certification of "equipment" (including decoders) should have been notified under Directive 83/189, and again, may be in breach of Articles 30 and 59 of the Treaty, in that it could restrict the sale or rental of a product (the decoder) which is available legally in other Member States, thereby restricting in addition the p ...[+++]rovision to viewers in Spain of conditional access and digital television services. * The powers granted by Law 17/1997 to the Regulator to fix tariffs for the use of conditional access systems may be in breach of Article 4(c) of the Television Standards Directive (95/47/EC). * There are doubts concerning the correct implementation of the provisions of Article 4(e) of Directive 95/47/EC for the establishment of dispute settlement procedures.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas the Community, through Council Decision 89/337/EEC, Council Decision 89/630/EEC, Council Directive 92/38/EEC and Council Decision 93/424/EEC, recognized the strategic importance of advanced and high-definition television for the European consumer electronics industry and for the European television and film industries, and established the strategy framework for the introduction of European advanced and high- definition television; Whereas the Council, in Council Resolution 93/C 209/01, invited the Commission to submit to the Council a communi ...[+++]cation on digital television; Whereas on 18 November 1993 the Commission submitted to the Council a communication entitled "Digital Video Broadcasting - a Framework for Community Policy"; Whereas digital technology offers significant benefits for the future of television and for the future electronic information highways; Whereas the benefits will be best achieved if a harmonious approach, based on a long-term perspective, is adopted from the start; Whereas common standards are an essential prerequisite for such an approach; Whereas relevant research and development activities in the Community should be reinforced and appropriate studies on frequency allocation and implementation scenarios intensified; Whereas the development of digital television technology is a worldwide phenomenon and whereas the search for the highest degree of compatibility between the various regions of the world in this area is a desirable objective, WELCOMES the Commission communication entitled "Digital Video Broadcasting - a Framework for Community Policy", which provides an excellent basis for the Council's examination; 1. CONSIDERS that: 1.1. digital technology offers the potential of significant benefits for the future of television and, in the broader sense, for the future electronic information highways or integrated broadband commun ...

The Council TAKES NOTE that during the same debate the European Parliament signified its agreement to the Commission's interpretation of this text" (iii) Statement re first indent of Article 4, point (c), of the Directive dealing with conditional access to digital television and reading as follows: "Member States shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that the operators of conditional access services, irrespective of the means of transmission, who produce and market access services to digital television services: - offer to a ...[+++]ll broadcasters, on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis, technical services enabling the broadcasters' digitally-transmitted services to be received by viewers authorized by means of decoders administered by the service operators, and comply with Community competition law, in particular if a dominant position appears; "". The Council and the Commission state that the first indent of Article 4, point (c): - applies to any provider of conditional access services operating on a cable, terrestrial or satellite broadcasting network in relation to broadcasters who have access to that network under the national procedures in force and wish to benefit from that conditional access service; - does not seek to impose an obligation to offer to any broadcaster access for television services to packages or tiers of television services configured and/or administered by the provider, or services involving transparent distribution to subscribers; - only requires Member States to ensure that broadcasters may have access to conditional access services and that the obligation in Article 4, point (c) does not extend to the underlying network.