Administrative Rule no. 711/98, of 8 of September

Published in D.R. number 207 (Series I-B) of 8 September 1998

Ministério do Equipamento, do Planeamento e Administração do Território (Ministry for Equipment, Planning and Territorial Administration)

Administrative Rule

Decree-Law no. 237/98, of August 5, which establishes the regulation for the granting of licences and authorisations for exercising television activity, provides, in number 1 of article 17, the setting, by Administrative rule, from the member of government responsible for the communications sector, of the technical standards to which terrestrial, cable and satellite television broadcasts must comply.

The applicable technical standards must therefore be made known, in accordance with the provisions of Directive nr. 95/47/CE, by (?) the European Parliament and Council of 24 October, on the use of norms for the transmission of television signals. Thus:

The Government decrees, via the Minister for Equipment, Planning and Territorial Administration, in the terms of and for the purposes set down in the provisions of point 1 of article 17 of Decree-Law no. 237/98, of August 5, that:

1.º Terrestrial (Hertzian), cable and satellite television broadcasting must comply with the following technical standards:

a. PAL (Phase Alternation Line) standards B and G, approved by Administrative rule n.º 936/91 of October 28, format 4:3, for wholly analogue television signals;

b. D2-MAC (Multiplexed Analogue Component) standard, approved by Administrative Rule nº 1155/91 of November 7, format 16:9 or 16:9, totally compatible with the PAL system, for wide screen and 625-line formats where the television signal is not wholly digital;

c. HD-MAC (High Definition Multiplexed Analogue Component) standard, for high-definition, but not wholly digital, television signals;

d. Standards developed by a recognised European standards organisation, for wholly digital television signals, viz. standards DVB-MPEG2.

2.º The Instituto das Comunicações de Portugal (ICP) publishes, by notification in the 3ª série do Diário da República, the reference to the standards indicated in paragraph d) of the above number.

The Ministry for Equipment, Planning and Territorial Administration.

Signed on 20 August 1998.

The Minster for Equipment, Planning and Territorial Administration, João Cardona Gomes Cravinho.