15/12/2017 (Agence Europe) – In the late afternoon of Friday 15 December, the committee of member state permanent representatives (Coreper) adopted the Council negotiating position on facilitating the cross-border transmission of audiovisual programmes. The member states reduced the scope of the country of origin principle to news and current affairs programmes (as Parliament adopted) and programmes financed by vetted by broadcasters. Under this principle, copyright applicable to satellite...