AEPOC Update

Overview of up-coming activities, public appearances and events

	September 21, 2006: AEPOC Board of Director's Meeting and Ordinary General Assembly - Lausanne, Switzerland
	September 28 - 30, 2006: SAT Expo - Vicenza, Italy
	October 9, 2006: AEPOC Special Issue Euromedia at Mipcom, October 9 - 13, 2006 - Cannes, France
	December 2006: AEPOC Annual General Assembly
	January 2007: 4th AEPOC Anti-Piracy Symposium in association with the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, January 30 - 31, 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland

Brussels - September 4 2006 - AEPOC, the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Service, announces the schedule of up-coming AEPOC activities, public appearances and congress events for the next five months.

Next formal meeting of the association will be the AEPOC Board of Director's Meeting and Ordinary General Assembly on September 21 in Lausanne, hosted by AEPOC member Nagra - Kudelski Group. Further official convention this year of the association's 35 members, comprising the leading European digital television channels, telecommunication companies and associated technology providers, will take place with the AEPOC Annual General Assembly planned for December. Each meeting will be followed by press release communication.

13^th edition of SAT Expo, September 28 - 30 in Vicenza, Italy - As already in place since many years, also in this edition the cooperation between AEPOC and SAT Expo shall provide reliable information to the operators and important communication tools vis-à-vis the public opinion and the political institutions. More information on SAT Expo 2006 is available here.

With the opening of global content event Mipcom on October 9 in Cannes, the new AEPOC Special Issue of Euromedia will present a comprehensive overview to catch-up with the latest headlines, positions and challenges in the combat against audio-visual piracy. Copies will be available at Mipcom and can be obtained free of charge from AEPOC.

In view of audio-visual piracy becoming increasingly an international issue with cases of piracy and copyright fraud originating from outside EU countries, AEPOC will further increase initiatives of international cooperation. In this context AEPOC plans to hold its 4^th Anti-Piracy Symposium in collaboration with the 3^rd Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy to take place on January 30 - 31 in Geneva. The Congress is convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Interpol and the World Customs Organization, with the support and participation of the world business community, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and its BASCAP initiative: Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy responds to the threat of counterfeiting and piracy. The ICC has launched BASCAP to connect all business sectors and cut across national borders in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy. Details on the participation of AEPOC within the Global Congress as well as the AEPOC Anti-Piracy Symposium will be circulated following the next AEPOC meeting on September 21. For more information please see the websites of the Global Congress and BASCAP.

About AEPOC:

AEPOC (www.aepoc.org) is the "Association Européenne pour la Protection des Œuvres et Services Cryptés" or the "European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services". AEPOC started its activities in 1995. Its current membership consists of 35 leading digital television and telecommunication companies including TV channels, conditional access providers, providers of transmission infrastructures and manufacturers of related hardware. AEPOC's goal is to eliminate the pirating of encrypted works and services and to encourage the development of the appropriate legal, operational and technological frameworks to increase the security and safeguarding of conditional access systems for Pay-TV, TV-based and IP services.

The AEPOC members are: ADD Europe, AL MAJD, Aston, Atmel, BSkyB, Canal+, Canal+ Polska, comvenient, Conax, Digiturk, Eutelsat, Humax, Hutro, Infineon Technologies, Irdeto, Liberty Global, Motorola, Nagravision, NDS, NTV-Plus, Opentech, Pace, Philips, Premiere, Sagem, SCM Microsystems, Showtime Arabia, Sky Italia, Sogecable, Thomson, TPS, TVCabo, Viaccess - France Telecom, and WELA Electronic.

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