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The present invention relates to a method for providing an equal error protection to data packets in a burst transmission system. The data packets are grouped based upon respective priority levels and error protection is provided to each group of data packets based upon the respective priority level. The error protection codes for each group of data packets depend ing on the respective priority level is created using data of data packets of the group which are contained in the data section (20) of two or more bursts (10) forming a first set of bursts (50, 50. B, 50. E. 55) and the created error protection codes are transmitted in the error protection section (30) of one or more bursts (10) forming a second set of bursts (60, 60. B. 60. E. 65). The invention further relates to a burst transmission system for performing said method.