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The ( en, Interstate Broadcasting Agreement), abbreviated as , is the nationwide law for radio station and

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. Based on the (sovereignty of the German states in terms of cultural aspects) it is not a federal law but instead it is a treaty passed by all ( states of Germany). The full title of the law is ( en, State Treaty on Broadcasting Services and Telecommunication Media) but on most occasions it is called ''Rundfunkstaatsvertrag''. The first version was enacted on 1 December 1987 (signed on 3 April 1987) and the fifteenth revision of 30 October 2010 is due to come into effect on 1 January 2013. The German Interstate Broadcasting Agreement is the basis for a series of other laws, most notably the ( – en, Interstate Agreement on Broadcasting Licence Fees) and the ( – en, Interstate Agreement on the Financing of Broadcasting). Some aspects were refined by the federal ( – en, Telecommunication Media Act) that is otherwise covering Internet services. The German public broadcasting services were introduced in post-war Germany in a similar fashion to the

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. The is similar to the royal charter of the BBC however the licensing and financing model diverged over time. The was introduced in 1987 to allow licensing of private broadcast companies beyond the public broadcast services that existed before.

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