A single act of representation constitutes the process by which, for the purpose of representation to the public, a broadcasting organisation, from the national territory or the territory of another Member State of the European Union, transmits its programme-carrying signals, in such a way that they are not accessible to the public during that transmission, to a signal distributor which transmits those programme-carrying signals to the public.
Under this single act of representation, the signal distributor and the broadcasting organisation must both, without joint and several liability between them, be authorised by the rightholders for the part of the act that each of these two entities performs.