Television Channels (Access)

HC Deb 16 February 1995 vol 254 cc792-3W

Mr. Allen

To ask the President of the Board of Trade when he last discussed conditional access to television channels with another EU member state; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Ian Taylor

At the EU Telecommunications Council last November, conditional access was discussed in the context of the draft directive on standards for TV transmission. Agreement was reached on the regulation requiring all conditional access systems used with digital broadcasts to use a standardised scrambling algorithm.