It is based in particular on Court of Justice case-law regarding television, particularly in case C-288/89 (judgment of 25 July 1991, Stichting Collectieve Antennevoorziening Gouda and others [1991] ECR I-4007), and on the Protocol on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States annexed to the EC Treaty and now to the Constitution, and on Council Directive 89/552/EC (particularly its seventeenth recital).
[1991] ECR I-4007), agus ar an bPrótacal maidir leis an gcóras craolacháin phoiblí sna Ballstáit atá i gceangal le Conradh CE agus atá anois i gceangal leis an mBunreacht, agus ar Threoir 89/552/CE (go háirithe an seachtú réamhaithris déag de).