6. 10. 93 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 248/15 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 57 (2) and 66 thereof, (3)  Whereas broadcasts transmitted across frontiers within the Community, in particular by satellite . L and cable, are one of the most important ways of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), pursuing these Community objectives, which are at ] ’ ' the same time political, economic, social, cultural In cooperation with the European Parliament (), and legal ; Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social (49 Whereas the Council has already adopted Directive Committee (%), 89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989 on the coordina- . tion of certain provisions laid down by law, regula- ' tion or administrative action in Member States (1)  Whereas the objectives of the Community as laid concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting down in the Treaty include establishing an ever activities (), which makes provision for the promo- closer union among the peoples of Europe, foster- tion of the distribution and production of European ing closer relations between the States belonging to television programmes and for advertising and the Community and ensuring the economic and sponsorship, the protection of minors and the right social progress of the Community countries by of reply; ; common action to eliminate the barriers which divide Burope; (5)  Whereas, however, the achievement of these objec- @ Whereas, to that end, the Treaty provides for the establishment of a common market and an area without internal frontiers; whereas measures to achieve this include the abolition of obstacles to the free movement of services and the institution of a system ensuring that competition in the common market is not distorted ; whereas, to that end, the Council may adopt directives for the coordination of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or (") OJ No C 255, 1. 10. 1991, p. 3 and administrative action in Member States concerning the taking up and pursuit of activities as self- employed persons ; tives in respect of cross-border satellite broadcast- ing and the cable retransmission of programmes from other Member States is currently still obstructed by a series of differences between national rules of copyright and some degree of legal uncertainty ; whereas this means that holders of rights are exposed to the threat of seeing their works exploited without payment of remuneration or that the individual holders of exclusive rights in various Member States block the exploitation of their rights ; whereas the legal uncertainty in par- ticular constitutes a direct obstacle in the free . OJ No C 25, 28. 1. 1993, p. 43. ‘ ® OJ No C 305, 23. 11. 1992, p. 129 and OJ No C 255, 20. 9. 1993. () OJ No C 98, 21. 4. 1992, p. 44. L. circulation of programmes within the Community ; () OJ No L 298, 17. 10. 1989, p. 23.