On 21 October 2021 Iceland signed the European Convention on Transfrontier Television as the 41 party. This important international treaty was open for signature by the member States and by the other States Parties to the European Cultural Convention and by the European Union on 05 May 1989 and entered into force in May 1993. This Convention is the first international treaty creating a legal framework for the free circulation of transfrontier television programmes in Europe, through minimum common rules, in fields such as programming, advertising, sponsorship and the protection of certain individual rights. It entrusts the transmitting States with the task of ensuring that television programme services transmitted comply with its provisions. In return, freedom of reception of programme services is guaranteed as well as the retransmission of the programme services which comply with the minimum rules of the Convention.

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