sentences:  The Directive originally fixed minimum periods of protection for the authors' rights and related rights which it created (Arts.11, 12) 
  in line with the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Rome Convention
  "without prejudice to further harmonization" in .The further harmonisation came with the 
  Directive harmonising the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights, which fixed the 
  protection periods across the EU and repealed these two articles.