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THE AMENDED TELEVISION WITHOUT FRONTIERS DIRECTIVE Television without frontiers directive: it sounds quite like an international organisation providing TVs for poor people. Actually, not at all; this directive emanated from the European Commission in 1984 (but changed until 1989) and came into effect in October 1991.This directive comes within the scope of the broadcasting and audio-visual policy of the early eighties following the Hahn report on Radio and Television Broadcasting in the European Community .It supports that mass media and television are instruments through which the Community could become a 'genuine political' and unification could be advanced. The European Parliament adopted the report which then emphasised on the importance of new technologies in the audio- visual sphere. This project obviously gave rise to two challenges (stated in the Commission's information paper 1984): * The harmonisation of television transmission standards, * Fostering television programme production. (Richard Collins) Several forces played a major role in the establishment of such...

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