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Back in April, members of the UN's International Telecommunications Union passed a resolution agreeing to support war-ravaged Ukraine in the rebuilding of its telecom sector. The text also decided to "carry out an assessment on the impact of the war in Ukraine to ITU programmes [?] and activities in the region, and provide a report thereon."[Directive 2010/13/EU] [...] (26) For the purposes of this Directive, the definition of media service provider should exclude natural or legal persons who merely transmit programmes for which the editorial responsibility lies with third parties. [p 4] [...] (38) Technological developments, especially with regard to digital satellite programmes, mean that subsidiary criteria should be adapted in order to ensure suitable regulation and its effective implementation and to give players [sic] genuine power over the content of an audiovisual media service.[p4] [...] (96) It is necessary to make clear that self-promotional activities are a particular form of advertising in which the broadcaster promotes its own products, services, programmes or channels. In particular, trailers consisting of extracts from programmes should be treated as programmes.[p 11] [...] [Ch1., Art.1 Definitions] (b) 'programme' means a set of moving images with or without sound constituting an individual item within a schedule or a catalogue established by a media service provider and the form and content of which are comparable to the form and content of television broadcasting. Examples of programmes include feature-length films, sports events, situation comedies, documentaries, children's programmes and original drama; [p 12]A few months later, in July, ITU posted an update on its website, saying that its "assessment report was "coming soon", but despite indications that the report was ready, the EU lamented Friday that it had "not been made available yet." In that July update, the ITU said that "at least 3.7 thousand base stations of mobile operators [sic] on the temporarily occupied and occupied territories do not work." At the same time, it warned, "worsening mobile broadband access [sic] loss is observed in at least in 1,297 settlements of Ukraine."
The text also decided to "carry out an assessment on the impact of the war in Ukraine to ITU programmes [?] and activities in the region, and provide a report thereon."
[Directive 2010/13/EU] [...] (26) For the purposes of this Directive, the definition of media service provider should exclude natural or legal persons who merely transmit programmes for which the editorial responsibility lies with third parties. [p 4] [...] (38) Technological developments, especially with regard to digital satellite programmes, mean that subsidiary criteria should be adapted in order to ensure suitable regulation and its effective implementation and to give players [sic] genuine power over the content of an audiovisual media service.[p4] [...] (96) It is necessary to make clear that self-promotional activities are a particular form of advertising in which the broadcaster promotes its own products, services, programmes or channels. In particular, trailers consisting of extracts from programmes should be treated as programmes.[p 11] [...] [Ch1., Art.1 Definitions] (b) 'programme' means a set of moving images with or without sound constituting an individual item within a schedule or a catalogue established by a media service provider and the form and content of which are comparable to the form and content of television broadcasting. Examples of programmes include feature-length films, sports events, situation comedies, documentaries, children's programmes and original drama; [p 12]
In that July update, the ITU said that "at least 3.7 thousand base stations of mobile operators [sic] on the temporarily occupied and occupied territories do not work."
At the same time, it warned, "worsening mobile broadband access [sic] loss is observed in at least in 1,297 settlements of Ukraine."
The letter, signed by the EU's ambassador in Geneva Lotte Knudsen and Vaclav Balek, ambassador of the Czech Republic, which holds the bloc's rotating presidency, was addressed to ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao of China...
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