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</style><table class="infobox" style="width: 24em;"><caption class="infobox-title">Directive 98/84/EC</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color: #ddd; font-weight: bold;"><a href="Directive_(European_Union)" title="Directive (European Union)">European Union directive</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data">Directive on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Made by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> & <a href="Council_of_the_European_Union" title="Council of the European Union">Council</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Made under</th><td class="infobox-data">Art. 57(2), 66 & 100a</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Official_Journal_of_the_European_Union" title="Official Journal of the European Union">Journal</a> reference</th><td class="infobox-data">L320, 1998-11-28, pp. 54–57.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ccf;">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date made</th><td class="infobox-data">1998-11-20</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Entry into force</th><td class="infobox-data">1998-11-28</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Implementation date</th><td class="infobox-data">2000-05-28</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ccf;">Preparative texts</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="European_Commission" title="European Commission">Commission</a> proposal</th><td class="infobox-data">C14, 1997-10-16, p. 7<br>C203, 1998-06-30, p. 12</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="European_Economic_and_Social_Committee" title="European Economic and Social Committee">EESC</a> opinion</th><td class="infobox-data">C129, 1998-04-27, p. 16</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">EP</a> opinion</th><td class="infobox-data">C152, 1998-05-18, p. 59</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reports</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ccf;">Other legislation</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Replaces</th><td class="infobox-data">—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Amends</th><td class="infobox-data">—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Amended by</th><td class="infobox-data">—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Replaced by</th><td class="infobox-data">—</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background-color: #ccffcc; font-weight: bold;">Current legislation</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>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</b> is a <a href="European_Union_directive" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union directive">European Union directive</a> in the field of intellectual property law, made under the <a href="Single_European_market" class="mw-redirect" title="Single European market">internal market</a> provisions of the <a href="Treaty_of_Rome" title="Treaty of Rome">Treaty of Rome</a>. The Directive covers "<a href="Conditional_access" title="Conditional access">conditional access</a> 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 <a href="Pay-per-view" title="Pay-per-view">pay-per-view</a> and <a href="Encrypted_television" class="mw-redirect" title="Encrypted television">encrypted television</a> and internet sites which charge for access.
</p><p>Member States may not restrict the provision of conditional access services which originate in another Member State [Art. 3(2)]. Devices intended to circumvent the access restrictions are prohibited (Art. 4).
</p><p>The convention formed the basis for the <a href="Conditional_Access_Convention" title="Conditional Access Convention">Conditional Access Convention</a>, a convention of the <a href="Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>, to which the European Union is a party.
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/internal_market/businesses/intellectual_property/l26050_en.htm">Summaries of EU legislation > Internal market > Businesses in the internal market > Intellectual property > Directive 98/84/EC</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31998L0084:EN:NOT">Directive 98/84/EC – text</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:71998L0084:EN:NOT">Directive 98/84/EC – national implementing measures</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=107961">Directive 98/84/EC – adoption procedure</a> (proposal, preparative texts, amendments made by the institutions etc.)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Copyright_law_of_the_European_Union" title="Copyright law of the European Union">Copyright law of the European Union</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Computer_Programs_Directive" title="Computer Programs Directive">Computer Programs Directive</a> (1991)</li>
<li><a href="Rental_Directive" title="Rental Directive">Rental Directive</a> (1992)</li>
<li><a href="Satellite_and_Cable_Directive" title="Satellite and Cable Directive">Satellite and Cable Directive</a> (1993)</li>
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<li><a href="Database_Directive" title="Database Directive">Database Directive</a> (1996)</li>
<li> (1998)</li>
<li><a href="Electronic_Commerce_Directive_2000" title="Electronic Commerce Directive 2000">Electronic Commerce Directive 2000</a> (2000)</li>
<li><a href="Information_Society_Directive" class="mw-redirect" title="Information Society Directive">Information Society Directive</a> (2001)</li>
<li><a href="Resale_Rights_Directive" title="Resale Rights Directive">Resale Rights Directive</a> (2001)</li>
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<li><a href="Enforcement_Directive" title="Enforcement Directive">Enforcement Directive</a> (2004)</li>
<li><a href="Copyright_Term_Directive" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyright Term Directive">Copyright Term Directive</a> (2006)</li>
<li><a href="Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market" title="Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market">Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</a> (2019)</li>
<li><a href="Customs_Regulation_1383/2003" title="Customs Regulation 1383/2003">Customs Regulation 1383/2003</a> (2003)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="Copyright_law_of_Spain" title="Copyright law of Spain">Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="Copyright_law_of_Sweden" title="Copyright law of Sweden">Sweden</a></li>
<li><a href="Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Copyright law of the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Directive_on_the_legal_protection_of_biotechnological_inventions" title="Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions">Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions</a> (1998)</li>
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<li><a href="Directive_on_the_legal_protection_of_designs" title="Directive on the legal protection of designs">Directive on the legal protection of designs</a> (1998)</li>
<li><a href="Regulation_on_Community_designs" title="Regulation on Community designs">Regulation on Community designs</a> (2001)</li>
<li><a href="European_Union_design" title="European Union design">European Union design</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Directive_on_the_Protection_of_Trade_Secrets" title="Directive on the Protection of Trade Secrets">Directive on the Protection of Trade Secrets</a> (2016)</li>
<li><a href="Law_on_the_Protection_of_Trade_Secrets" title="Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets">German Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets</a> (2019)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="Paris_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Industrial_Property" title="Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property">Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property</a></li>
<li><a href="Rome_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Performers%2C_Producers_of_Phonograms_and_Broadcasting_Organisations" title="Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations">Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations</a></li>
<li><a href="TRIPS_Agreement" title="TRIPS Agreement">TRIPS Agreement</a></li>
<li><a href="WIPO_Copyright_Treaty" title="WIPO Copyright Treaty">WIPO Copyright Treaty</a></li>
<li><a href="WIPO_Performances_and_Phonograms_Treaty" title="WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty">WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty</a></li></ul>
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<td colspan="3"><a href="Directive_on_the_legal_protection_of_services_based_on%2C_or_consisting_of%2C_conditional_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Directive on the legal protection of services based on, or consisting of, conditional access">Directive 98/84/EC (Conditional access)</a> • <a href="Directive_on_the_harmonisation_of_certain_aspects_of_copyright_and_related_rights_in_the_information_society" class="mw-redirect" title="Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society">Directive 2001/29/EC (DRM)</a> • <a href="Directive_on_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_property_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights">Directive 2004/48/EC (Civil enforcement)</a> • <a href="Regulation_concerning_customs_action_against_goods_suspected_of_infringing_certain_intellectual_property_rights_and_the_measures_to_be_taken_against_goods_found_to_have_infringed_such_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Regulation concerning customs action against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights">Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 (Customs enforcement)</a>
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