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This is a list of events designated as being of "major importance for society" by various member states of the European Union under the provisions of Article 3j(1) of the the Audiovisual Media Services Directive. Designated events are required to be broadcast in the relevant country on free-to-air television, either whole or in part, either live or deferred. The relevant section was introduced as Article 3a(1) the 1989 Television without Frontiers Directive by a 1997 amendment, and was renumbered in December 2007 when the Directive was renamed. The section reads as follows:
 * Each Member State may take measures in accordance with Community law to ensure that broadcasters under its jurisdiction do not broadcast on an exclusive basis events which are regarded by that Member State as being of major importance for society in such a way as to deprive a substantial proportion of the public in that Member State of the possibility of following such events by live coverage or deferred coverage on free television. If it does so, the Member State concerned shall draw up a list of designated events, national or non-national, which it considers to be of major importance for society. It shall do so in a clear and transparent manner in due time. In so doing the Member State concerned shall also determine whether these events should be available by whole or partial live coverage, or where necessary or appropriate for objective reasons in the public interest, whole or partial deferred coverage.

Most of the designated events are sports events, but a few are music-related.