After session with Videma, the NOS and NPO have determined to considerably cut back the charges for the 2024 European Championship. The brand new charges are primarily based on the 2014 degree, corrected with annual indexation of the previous ten years, leading to a discount in occasion charges of greater than 75% on the present price.
These new allowances apply retroactively for your complete length of the European Championship. Entrepreneurs, firms and establishments which have already bought an occasion license might be compensated. Over the previous ten years, reimbursements have elevated by way of annual worth indexations and incidental will increase. The events notice that this has led to a major improve within the charges for occasion licenses and have due to this fact determined to regulate these charges to the 2014 price, with the annual worth indexation.
Gert-Jaap Hoekman, editor-in-chief at NOS Sport: “The NOS believes it can be crucial that everybody can benefit from the Dutch nationwide group. The European Championships carry individuals collectively, whether or not at dwelling or on a big sq.. These changes present a serving to hand to catering entrepreneurs, and we hope that there’ll now be full squares throughout the Oranje matches.”
Based mostly on the Dutch Act, permission from the rights holders is required to broadcast the European Championship matches. In its rights package deal, NOS additionally covers the precise to indicate broadcasts on giant screens. As well as, copyright prices have to be lined and sure licensing situations are connected, equivalent to guidelines concerning sponsorship.
Within the Netherlands, Videma supplies permission on behalf of rights holders to broadcast TV applications, together with the European Championship matches. An occasion license is required to broadcast on giant screens (for instance on squares or in a tent). After the European Championship, NOS and NPO will focus on the charges to be charged for occasions sooner or later with Videma and different rights holders.
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