Artikel 2

For the purposes of this Convention:
a) ``protected service" means any of the following services, when provided against remuneration and on the basis of conditional access: – television programme services, as defined in Article 2 of the amended European Convention on Transfrontier Television;
– radio broadcasting services, meaning radio programmes intended for reception by the public, transmitted by wire or over the air, including by satellite;
– information society services, understood as those offered by electronic means, at a distance and at the individual request of a recipient of services; or the provision of conditional access to the above services considered as a service in its own right;
– television programme services, as defined in Article 2 of the amended European Convention on Transfrontier Television;
– radio broadcasting services, meaning radio programmes intended for reception by the public, transmitted by wire or over the air, including by satellite;
– information society services, understood as those offered by electronic means, at a distance and at the individual request of a recipient of services;
b) ``conditional access" means any technical measure and/or arrangement permitting access in an intelligible form, and subject to prior individual authorisation, to one of the services mentioned in paragraph a) of this article;
c) ``conditional access device" means any equipment, software and/or arrangement designed or adapted to give access in an intelligible form to one of the services mentioned in paragraph a) of this article;
d) ``illicit device" means any equipment, software and/or arrangement designed or adapted to give access in an intelligible form to one of the services mentioned in paragraph a. of this article, without the authorisation of the service provider.