We will review the scope for alternative funding mechanisms around the end of digital switchover [2012]." Amid warnings of tough times in store for Channel 4, it added: "We will consider forms of assistance such as asking the BBC to provide Channel 4 with financial help" as well as the distribution of licence fee money more widely beyond the BBC.
While the BBC was facing questions of its own - "a real debate about the role and distribution of the licence fee" - he said there were major obstacles to providing PSB on the commercial TV networks such as ITV and Channel Five.
The weighting procedure within the countries refers to socio-demographic data only as there is no data available for the regional distribution of driving licence holders within the countries.
On the other hand, Rosneft can be confident of preferential treatment when it comes to the distribution of new production licences and so on, and will be well-placed to pick up the remaining assets of Yukos, when the company finally winds up altogether.Those distinctly Russian advantages persuaded enough investors that, for all its risks, Rosneft was worth a punt.
The protests were the culmination of a sequence of huge corruption scandals, from last year's Commonwealth games in Delhi to the distribution of 2G mobile-telecoms spectrum licences.
"The shop we've opened in Shanghai, for example, required a business licence, an environmental licence, a food service licence, a food distribution licence, an alcohol and a fire licence," Lexie says.
Ivan's project required dozens of licences, and every licence needed a bribe.
Institutions, projects and scientists need three sets of licences.
Fig. 7 Numbers of licences granted in the UK and in Japan.
