Activities of Marc JOULAUD

Tokia SAÏFI, Franck PROUST, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 a (new)

In Part I of Annex I, point 2 (‘Core network corridors’), in the ‘Atlantic’ section, after the line ‘Aveiro – Valladolid – Vitoria – Bergara – Bilbao/Bordeaux – Paris – Le Havre/Metz – Mannheim/Strasbourg’, the following lines are inserted: “Shannon Foynes – Dublin – Rosslare – Waterford – Cork – Brest – Roscoff – Cherbourg – Caen – Le Havre – Rouen – Paris” “Dublin – Cork – Saint Nazaire – Nantes – Tours”

2018/11/27
Committee: REGI

2018/0299(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) In order to avoid the North Sea – Mediterranean Core Network Corridor being separated into two distinct and unconnected parts and to ensure connectivity of Ireland with mainland Europe, the North Sea – Mediterranean Core Network Corridor should include maritime links between the Irish core ports and core ports of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

2018/12/10
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii

(iii) actions implementing sections of the comprehensive network located in outermost regions in accordance with Chapter II of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013, including actions relating to the relevant urban nodes, maritime ports, inland ports, airports and rail-road terminals of the comprehensive network as defined at Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;

2018/09/13
Committee: REGI

2018/0228(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) legal entities established in a third country associated towith the Programme, for actions related to a project concerning that third country;

2018/09/13
Committee: REGI

2018/0228(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Andrea BOCSKOR, Francis ZAMMIT DIMECH

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)

(ia) European added value.

2018/09/13
Committee: REGI

2018/0227(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) The general objective of the Programme should be to support the digital transformation of industry and to foster better exploitation of the industrial potential of ~~policies of~~ innovation, and research ~~and technological development~~policies, as well as the full use of R&D results, technological development and European and international standards, for the benefit of businesses and citizens all over the Union. The programme should be structured into five Specific Objectives reflecting key policy areas, namely: high- performance computing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, advanced digital skills, and deployment, best use of digital capacities and interoperability. For all these areas, the Programme should also aim at better aligning Union, Member States and regional policies, and pooling of private and industrial resources in order to increase investment and develop stronger synergies.

2018/09/10
Committee: CULT

2018/0227(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27

(27) In its resolution of 1 June 2017 on digitising European industry67 the European Parliament stated that education, training and lifelong learning are the cornerstone of social cohesion in a digital society. It emphasised as well the importance of basic digital skills which should encompass knowledge of the possibilities that digital skills offer, advanced use of basic digital tools, safe internet behaviour and search methodologies to identify credible sources, and promote awareness-raising about rights online. It would also contribute to allowing citizens to have a critical understanding of different forms of digital media and thereby increasing and enhancing the resources and opportunities offered by ‘digital literacy’. _________________ 67 Document ref. A8-0183/2017, available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo c.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference= P8-TA-2017-0240

2018/09/10
Committee: CULT

2018/0227(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35 a (new)

(35a) Furthermore historical and cultural sites are often not easily accessible for persons with disabilities. The Programme could therefore contribute to support digital initiatives aiming at improving engagement and making cultural experiences, sites and artefacts throughout Europe more accessible to persons with disabilities, regardless of geographical location.

2018/09/10
Committee: CULT

Marc JOULAUD, Renaud MUSELIER, Maurice PONGA, Anne SANDER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) ~~31.4~~18.5 % (i.e., a total of EUR 2 ~~649 900 00~~065 693 350) for transnational cooperation ~~and maritime cooperation~~ (component 2);

2018/10/03
Committee: REGI

2018/0199(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Fernando RUAS, Sofia RIBEIRO, Gabriel MATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c

2018/10/03
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) those with a ~~gross national income ratio~~GDP per capita equal to or above 75 % and below 100 % of the EU average ('group 2');

2018/11/06
Committee: REGI

Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Fernando RUAS, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) for the ESF+ support: 4% % or 5 % for the outermost regions and for programmes under Article 4(1)(c)(vii) of the ESF+ Regulation: 5 %;

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 75 – paragraph 1

1. The managing authority shall carry out on-the-spot management verifications in accordance with Article 68(1) only at the level of bodies implementing the financial instrument ~~and, in the context of guarantee funds, at the level of bodies delivering the underlying new loans~~.

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d

(d) 2024: ~~0.5~~2 %;

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e

(e) 2025: ~~0.5~~2 %;

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point f

(f) 2026: ~~0.5~~2 %

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 92 – paragraph 4

4. The accounts shall not be admissible if Member States have not undertaken the necessary corrections to reduce the residual risk on the legality and regularity of the expenditure included in the accounts to less than 25 %.

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 104 – paragraph 1 – point c

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 104 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) 12.8 % (i.e., a total of EUR 416 3~~48 556 877~~32 633 609) for Member States supported by the Cohesion Fund;

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 104 – paragraph 1 – point e

(e) 0.4 % (i.e., a total of EUR 1 ~~447 034 001~~621 456 739) as additional funding for the outermost regions identified in Article 349 of the TFEU and the NUTS level 2 regions fulfilling the criteria laid down in Article 2 of Protocol No 6 to the 1994 Act of Accession.

2018/11/15
Committee: REGI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 106 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

The co-financing rate for Interreg programmes shall be no higher than 7085 %.

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – introductory part

8. The allocation of resources by Member State, covering cross-border, transnational and outermost regions’ cooperation is determined as ~~the weighted sum of the shares determined on the basis of the following criteria, weighted as indicated:~~ follows: - concerning the cross-border and the transnational cooperation components, the share of Member States is determined as the weighted sum of the share of the population of border regions and the share of the total population of each Member State. The population of NUTS level 3 regions is to be taken into account for cross-border cooperation programmes, and the population of NUTS level 2 regions is to be taken into account for transnational cooperation programmes. The weight is determined by the respective shares of the cross-border and the transnational components. -concerning the outermost regions component, the share of Member States is determined as the weighted sum of the shares of the total population of outermost regions.

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point a

a) total population of all NUTS level 3 land border regions and of other NUTS level 3 regions of which at least half of the regional population lives within 25 kilometres of the land border (weighting 36%);deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point b

~~b) population living within 25 kilometres of the land borders (weighting 24%);~~deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point c

~~c) total population of the Member States (weighting 20%);~~deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point d

d) total population of all NUTS level 3 regions along border coastlines and of other NUTS level 3 regions of which at least half of the regional population lives within 25 kilometres of the border coastlines. (weighting 9.8%);eleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point e

~~e) population living in the maritime border areas within 25 kilometres of the border coastlines (weighting 6.5%);~~deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – point f

~~f) total population of outermost regions (weighting 3.7%).~~deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 8 – paragraph 1

The share of the cross-border component corresponds to the sum of the weights of criteria (a) and (b). The share of the transnational component corresponds to the sum of weights of criteria (c), (d) and (e). The share of the outermost regions’ cooperation corresponds to the weight of criterion (f).deleted

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 9

9. An additional special allocation corresponding to an aid intensity of EUR 340 per inhabitant per year will be allocated to the outermost ~~NUTS level 2 regions and~~regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU and an aid intensity of EUR 30 per inhabitant per year will be allocated to the northern sparsely populated NUTS level 2 regions. That allocation will be distributed per region and Member State in a manner proportional to the total population of those regions.

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Maurice PONGA, Jérôme LAVRILLEUX

Proposal for a regulation
Annex XXIV – point 16 a (new)

16a. A total of EUR 120 000 000 will be allocated to create a specific support fund for EU regions affected by the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the Union. The aim of this fund is to mitigate the economic consequences and asymmetrical impact of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal and to provide targeted support to the EU local and regional authorities and to the sectors negatively affected, including fisheries, agriculture, tourism and port activities. This fund shall pay particular attention to EU regions that will, as a result of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal, find themselves situated on an external (sea or land) EU border.

2018/10/24
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Table Horizontal enabling conditions – row 6 a (new)

Implementation of the principles and Arrangements at national level to ensure rights of the European Pillar of Social the proper implementation of the Rights that contribute to real convergence principles of the European Pillar of and cohesion in the European Union. Social Rights that contribute to upward social convergence and cohesion in the EU, especially the principles preventing unfair competition within the internal market.

2018/10/30
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – Policy objective 1 – row 2 – column 4

Smart specialisation strategy(ies) shall be supported by: 1. Up-to-date analysis of bottlenecks for innovation diffusion, including digitalisation 2. Existence of competent regional / national institution or body, responsible for the management of the smart specialisation strategy 3. Monitoring and evaluation tools to measure performance towards the objectives of the strategy 4. ~~Effective functioning of entrepreneurial discovery process 5. Actions necessary to improve national or regional research and innovation systems 6.~~Actions to manage industrial transition 75. Measures for international collaboration Actions to manage industrial

2018/10/30
Committee: REGI

2018/0196(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – Policy objective 4 – row 4 – column 2 – point 4.3

ERDF: 4.3 increasing the socio-economic integration of marginalised communities, ~~migrants~~refugees and migrants under international protection and disadvantaged groups, through integrated measures including housing and social services

2018/10/30
Committee: REGI

2018/0191(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38

(38) In line with Article 349 TFEU and the Commission's communication on 'A stronger and renewed strategic partnership with the Union's outermost regions'36, the Programme should take into account the specific situation of these regions. Measures will be taken to increase the outermost regions' effective participation in all actions. Mobility exchanges and cooperation between people and organisations from these regions and third countries, in particular their neighbours, should be fostered. Such measures will be monitored and evaluated regularly. _________________ 36 COM(2017) 623 final.

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39

(39) Pursuant to [reference to be updated as appropriate according to a new Decision on OCTs Article 94 of the Council Decision 2013/755/EC37], individuals and entities established in overseas countries or territories are eligible for funding subject to the rules and objectives of the Programme and possible arrangements applicable to the Member State to which the relevant overseas country or territory is linked. The constraints imposed by the remoteness of these countries or territories sh~~ould be~~all be duly taken into account when implementing the Programme, ~~and their~~in particular by establishing financial allocations which take account of travel costs or by promoting exchange and cooperation with neighbouring third countries as part of this mobility programme, and their effective participation in the Programme should be monitored and regularly evaluated. _________________ 37 Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union ('Overseas Association Decision') (OJ L 344, 19.12.2013, p. 1).

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Julie GIRLING, Marc TARABELLA, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6

(6) 'grassroots sport' means ~~organised sport practised at local level by amateur sports people, and sport for all~~physical leisure activity, organised and non- organised, practised regularly at non- professional level for health, educational or social purposes;

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Julie GIRLING, Marc TARABELLA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)

(8a) ‘sport staff’ means persons involved in the direction, instruction, training and management of a sports team or individual sports people, both on a paid or voluntary basis;

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19

(19) 'transnational' relates to any action involving at least two countries which are either Member States or overseas countries or territories coming under the authority of a Member State, or third countries associated to the Programme;

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 26

(26) ‘national authority' means the authority in charge, at national level, of monitoring and supervising the management of the Programme in a Member State, in overseas countries and territories coming under the authority of a Member State, or in a third country associated to the Programme;

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 27

(27) 'national agency' means one or more bodies in a given Member State or, in an overseas country or territory coming under the authority of a Member State, or in a third country associated to the Programme in charge of managing the implementation of the Programme at national level. There may be more than one national agency in a given Member State or, including in an overseas country or territory coming under the authority of that Member State, or in a third country associated to the Programme.

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Julie GIRLING, Marc TARABELLA, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) promote learning mobility of sport coaches and staff, as well as cooperation, inclusion, creativity and innovation at the level of sport organisations and sport policies. The focus should be in particular on supporting grassroots sport.

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) partnerships for excellence, in particular European universities, ~~Centres of vocational excellence and joint master degrees;~~ the principal objective of which is to increase the attractiveness of higher-education establishments in the European Union by encouraging cooperation between the research, innovation and education domains, centres of vocational excellence and joint master degrees; partnerships for excellence shall involve at least one Member State.

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1

In the field of sport, the Programme shall support, under key action 1, the mobility of sport coaches and staff. It shall also support the mobility of amateur athletes, in connection with competitions, in particular in remote, island or outermost regions and overseas countries and territories coming under the authority of a Member State.

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0191(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point a – point 5 a (new)

(5a) An indicative amount of [EUR 4 000 000 000, of which at least ….% is allocated by way of support for the European universities initiative, representing 16% of the total amount for paragraph 2] for other actions under Chapter II, with the exception of those referred to in points (1) to (5) of paragraph 2(a).

2018/11/16
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)

(4a) EU policies will complement and add value to Member States intervention in this area. The impact of such policies should be assessed on a regular basis taking account of qualitative and quantitative indicators such as the benefits for citizens and their active participation, the benefits for the EU economy in terms of growth and jobs and spill-overs in other sectors of the economy and the skills and competences of people working in CCS.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) The promotion of European cultural diversity depends on the existence of flourishing and resilient cultural and creative sectors, able to create, produce and distribute their works to a large and diverse European audience. This thereby enlarges their business potential and contributes to sustainable growth and jobs creation. In addition, promotion of creativity contributes to boosting competitiveness and sparkling innovation in the industrial value chains. In spite of recent progress, the European cultural and creative market continues to be fragmented along national and linguistic lines~~, which do not~~. While respecting the specificity of each market, more can be done to allow the cultural and creative sectors to fully benefit from the European single market and the digital single market in particular.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) The Programme should take into account the ~~dual~~multiple nature of the cultural and creative sectors, recognising, on the one hand, the intrinsic and artistic value of culture and, on the other, the social and economic value of those sectors, including their broader contribution to intercultural dialogue, social cohesion, growth and competitiveness, creativity and innovation. This requires strong European cultural and creative sectors, in particular a vibrant European audiovisual industry, taking into account its capacity to reach large audiences and its economic importance, including for other creative sectors as well as cultural tourism. However, competition in global audiovisual markets has been further intensified by the deepening digital disruption e.g. changes in media production, consumption and the growing position of global platforms in the distribution of content. Therefore, there is a need to step-up the support to the European industry.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)

(6a) The Programme should provide a solid ground for the development of active European citizenship, shared values, creativity and innovation. This needs to be reflected by supporting media literacy, and in particular film literacy, together with the promotion of films for young people.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) To be effective, the Programme should take into account the specific nature of the different sectors, their different target groups and their particular needs through tailor-made approaches within a strand dedicated to the audiovisual sector, a strand dedicated to the other cultural and creative sectors and a cross-sectoral strand. Building on pilot projects, preparatory actions and studies, the programme should also implement the sectorial actions listed in the Annex of the Creative Europe proposal, such as the one for the music sector.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) As part of the specific actions pursued under the CULTURE strand, the music sector should be a particular focus in terms of financial distribution and targeted actions. Tailor-made calls and instruments should help boost the competitiveness of the music sector and address some of the specific challenges it faces.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22

(22) Since its creation, the European Film Academy has developed a unique expertise and is in a unique position to create a pan-European community of film creators and professionals, promoting and disseminating European films beyond their national borders and developing truly European audiences from an early age on. Therefore, it should be eligible for direct Union support.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) Quality, impact and efficiency in the planned implementation should be among the key criteria for the selection of projects. Taking into account the technical expertise required to assess proposals under specific actions of the Programme, it should be provided that, where relevant, evaluation committees may be composed of external experts with relevant management and/or artistic backgrounds.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) The Programme should include a realistic and manageable system of performance indicators to accompany its actions and monitor its performance on a continuous basis. This monitoring as well as information and communication actions relating to the Programme and its actions should build on the three strands of the programme. The strands should have a common set of qualitative and quantitative indicators and dedicated sets of qualitative and quantitative indicators. All such sets should be assessed in accordance with this Regulation.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29 a (new)

(29a) Considering the complexity of gathering appropriate statistical data to measure and analyse the impact of cultural policies, the Commission should reinforce the cooperation within its services – in particular the Joint Research Centre and EUROSTAT – in order to gather and analyse such data. For this task, the Commission shall actin cooperation with relevant European research organisations in this field and with the Council of Europe, as well as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and UNESCO.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Maurice PONGA, Marc JOULAUD, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34

(34) Pursuant to Article 94 of Council Decision 2013/755/EU28 , persons and entities established in overseas countries and territories are eligible for funding subject to the rules and objectives of the Programme and possible arrangements applicable to the Member State to which the relevant overseas country or territory is linked. The constraints imposed by the remoteness of these countries or territories should be taken into account when implementing the Programme, and their effective participation monitored and regularly evaluated. __________________ 28 Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union (Overseas Association Decision) (OJ L 344, 19.12.2013, p. 1).

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36

(36) In order to ensure ~~smooth implementation of the Programme~~the continuity of funding support provided under the Programme and cover the increasing funding gaps experienced by beneficiaries, the costs incurred by the beneficiary before the grant application is submitted, in particular costs related to intellectual property rights, ~~may~~shall be considered as eligible, provided that they are directly linked to the implementation of the supported actions.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40

(40) Since the objectives of this Regulation cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of their transnational character, the high volume and wide geographical scope of the mobility and cooperation activities funded, their effects on access to learning mobility and more generally on Union integration, as well as their reinforced international dimension, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective. Nevertheless, particular attention should be paid to the small-scale projects and their added value, given the specificities of the European Cultural and Creative Sectors.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) enhancing the economic, social and external dimension of European level cooperation to develop and promote European cultural diversity and Europe's cultural heritage and strengthening the competitiveness of the European cultural and creative sectors and reinforcing international cultural relations, the visibility of which shall be reinforced by using relevant name and logo;

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) promoting the competitiveness ~~and~~, scalability of the European audiovisual industry and the quality of its activities;

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Bogusław SONIK, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Milan ZVER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

(ca) Foster data collection for the cultural and creative sectors, with a cross- sectorial dimension, in order to develop knowledge based evidence and analyses.

2018/11/30
Committee: CULT

2018/0190(COD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Calls on the Commission to fully exploit potential synergies between cohesion policy and other EU policies; points out that much more can still be done to bring about a greater synergy between the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) and other European programmes outlined for the 2014-2020 programming period, with specific reference to Erasmus+ and Creative Europe, through the provision of better information on an EU-wide basis and by means of much more resolute implementation in the Member States and their regions;

2018/02/28
Committee: CULT

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as a horizontal priority and to use effectively the funding available under EU programmes and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) in order to support more projects in the CCI sector;

2018/02/28
Committee: CULT

2017/2279(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7 b. Underlines that regions have a proved capacity in developing clusters and cross-border cooperation in the field of CCIs, and in this context notes the positive effects of smart specialisation in CCI as a motor of growth for regions;

2018/02/28
Committee: CULT

2017/2279(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7 c. Calls on the Commission to exploit the capacity of the European Regional Development Fund to support the development of sport infrastructure and promote sustainable sport and outdoor activities as a tool for regional and rural development, and the European Social Fund to strengthen the skills and employability of workers in the sport sector;

2018/02/28
Committee: CULT

2017/2279(INI)

Ivana MALETIĆ, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that cohesion policy investments provide European added value by contributing to European public goods ~~and to~~, the Treaty objective of reducing disparities and spill-over benefits to non-cohesion countries from the increased trade generated and strengthening the Single Market;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Ivana MALETIĆ, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that cohesion policy investments provide European added value by contributing to European public goods (such as growth, social inclusion, innovation and environmental protection) and to the Treaty objective of reducing disparities;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jan OLBRYCHT, Maurice PONGA, Ivana MALETIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that the implementation of cohesion policy in a region can generate spill-over benefits elsewhere in the EU due to the increased trade generated; points out, however, that these benefits vary considerably from one Member State to the other, depending in particular on geographic proximity and the structure of the Member States’ economies;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jan OLBRYCHT, Maurice PONGA, Ivana MALETIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Recalls that the particular structural social and economic situation of the outermost regions justifies specific measures, in accordance with Article 349 TFEU, and stresses the need to improve the specific measures for these regions by adjusting them whenever necessary; calls on the Commission to take the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU of 15 December 2015 as the basis for ensuring that Article 349 TFEU is properly applied as regards the conditions governing access to the Structural Funds; suggests in particular extending the specific allocation for the outermost regions to the social component, maintaining the current level of Union co-financing in those regions, and better tailoring the thematic concentration;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that the introduction of integrated strategies for sustainable urban development has been a success and should be replicated in other sub-regional territories, for example by setting an integrated territorial objective alongside the thematic objectives; stresses that possibility to introduce preparation of Operational programmes based on Integrated territorial strategies and Smart specialisation strategies should be analysed.

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Ivana MALETIĆ, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Is convinced that a major challenge for future cohesion policy will be to provide appropriate support to these regions, and that cohesion policy must both reduce disparities and prevent vulnerable regions from falling behind, by taking account of the different trends and dynamics; calls on the Commission to address the phenomenon of the middle- income trap;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Welcomes the Commission’s launch of a pilot project to provide tailored support geared to the specific challenges facing regions in industrial transition; calls on the Commission to draw lessons from the pilot project as soon as possible, and believes that smart specialisation strategies have the potential to offer better support to these regions in their development strategies and, more generally, promote differentiated implementation at regional level; stresses however that the results of Smart Specialization strategy process were, in some regions, inadequate due to the lack of resources, potential partners, tech transfer support system etc., and calls therefore for more cooperation and exchange of knowledge and experience among the regions.

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses that social and fiscal convergence help to foster cohesion while improving the functioning of the single market; takes the view that divergent practices in this area may run counter to the objective of cohesion and are liable to cause further problems for territories which are lagging behind or are the most vulnerable to globalisation; considers that cohesion policy could contribute to the promotion of social and fiscal convergence by providing incentives; underlines in this regard the possibility to rely for instance on the European Pilar of Social Rights concerning social convergence and, concerning fiscal convergence, to encourage Member States to put in place strategies to identify and eliminate harmful tax practices as regards European and international standards ;calls on the Commission to take better account of this aspect in the European Semester;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jan OLBRYCHT, Maurice PONGA, Ivana MALETIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls for ESI funds to be used to address demographic challenges (ageing, population loss and demographic pressure) which affect European regions in a variety of specific ways; stresses in particular the need to provide adequate support to the territories, such as some outermost regions, facing growing population pressure caused by a high birth rate and large-scale irregular migration;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2279(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jan OLBRYCHT, Maurice PONGA, Ivana MALETIĆ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Stresses the potential of investments in culture, heritage, youth and sport to create jobs and growth and to improve social cohesion;

2018/02/28
Committee: REGI

2017/2225(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes it desirable that, post- 2020, Northern Ireland should ~~be able to continue to participate in the EU’s general cohesion funds if possible, as that would benefit~~– if possible, without prejudice to the ongoing negotiations and in conditions that have yet to be defined – be able to continue to participate in certain specific EU programmes that are necessary to ensure stability in the region, whilst also contributing to economic and social development, particularly in disadvantaged and rural areas;

2018/05/16
Committee: REGI

2017/2225(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. C~~onsiders that, post-2020,~~alls for efforts to be made to look into the option of continuing with EU- supported cross-border and inter- community schemes ~~should b~~after 2020, without prejudice to the con~~tinued~~going negotiations; stresses that the continuance of the special EU cohesion programmes for Northern Ireland, namely the Northern Ireland Peace Programme and the Interreg programmes, are particularly important for the stability of the region; fears that an end to these programmes would endanger cross-border and inter-community trust-building activities and, as a consequence, the peace process;

2018/05/16
Committee: REGI

2017/2225(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Considers that it is important that the EU should continue to reach out to both communities in Northern Ireland post-2020 by playing an active role in the administration of cohesion and cross- community funding in Northern Ireland, thereby helping them to overcome their divisions; ~~believes that funding should be maintained at its current level;~~

2018/05/16
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas local and regional authorities ~~are~~, which are key actors for an effective implementation of cohesion policy are also at the forefront of the transition to a circular economy and whereas their contribution is key to the achievement of this shift;,

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the transition to a stronger, more circular economy is a challenge for all European regions, but also represents key opportunities ~~for those region~~and possibilities for development and growth for those regions, in particular with regard to creating new jobs;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas cohesion policy offers not only investment opportunities to respond to local and regional needs through the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds), but also an integrated policy framework to help the European regions address the multiple challenges to their development, including through support for resource efficiency and sustainable development, as well as territorial cooperation and capacity building;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Regret~~Notes, however, that, as underlined in a study commissioned by the Commission, the current policy framework does not allow the full contribution of cohesion policy to the circular economy to be captured; ~~notes,~~ in this respect, points to the fact that the definition of the existing ‘Intervention Field’ categories used for financial allocations does not cover the circular economy as such;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Reiterates its view that the circular economy goes beyond waste management and includes areas such as green jobs, renewable energy, resource efficiency, extending the life of products through reuse, repair and reutilisation, the bioeconomy, water management, energy efficiency, food waste, marine litter, research and development and innovation in related fields; acknowledges, however, that waste infrastructure is a crucial element for reducing linear patterns of production and consumption;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Underlines the potential of the bioeconomy for the local and regional development ; calls for greater use of ESI Funds to be made for the implementation of existing innovations, while further fostering innovation in the development of bio- based, biodegradable, recyclable and compostable materials produced from sustainably managed biofeed stocks;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Believes that the future planning of ESI Funds should be better ~~integr~~coordinated with the national energy and climate plans for 2030;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission, for the next programming period, to ~~implement a relevant~~consider the possibility of implementing a tracking methodology to, allow ~~accura~~ing for better monitoring of the contribution of cohesion policy to the achievement of a circular economy;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Stresses the importance of stepping up cohesion policy support for sustainable urban and rural development, and calls for a more prominent role to be given to circular economy-related objectives in this context; calls for innovative urban and rural actions in this field to be continued and calls on the Commission to make maximum use of lessons learnt in the 2014- 2020 period when preparing proposals for the future;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2211(INI)

Franc BOGOVIČ, Marc JOULAUD, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Emphasises the interdependence of the circular economy and climate mitigation, and thus calls for ~~a significant increase~~ensuring appropriate spending in circular economy- and climate- related ~~spending~~investments in post- 2020 cohesion policy;

2018/04/12
Committee: REGI

2017/2209(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Milan ZVER

1. Emphasises that access to quality, free and independent information is a fundamental human right, that media pluralism is the pillar of democracy and that the media’s independence from political and economic powers and undue influences must be guaranteed accordingly;

2017/12/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2209(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recalls that the formation of public opinion is based upon a ~~social pac~~relation of trust between citizens and media professionals aimed at inf~~luenc~~orming th~~ose in power~~e public for the purposes of general interest; notes with the gravest concern that the financing system for the press has collapsed, ~~resulting in dominant media players using information to pursue political and commercial propaganda objectives,~~threatening media pluralism as well as the quality of information; salutes therefore the proposal of the Commission to provide news publishers with the right to authorise the re~~by dramatically lowering the quality of information and giving rise to phenomena such as ‘fake news’~~production and making available of their press publications online, in order to favour a balanced relationship with online business players and the fair share of the revenues generated by press publications online;

2017/12/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2209(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that in the context of a weakened media landscape combined with the digital revolution, the phenomenon known as “fake news” is a rising and worrying trend, where false or highly biased information are widely disseminated for a political motive, including under the direct or indirect patronage of certain third countries; underlines its negative effects that were observed over the past couple of years, such as during the “Brexit” referendum campaign and other political events occurred in the Member States, when large numbers of citizens were influenced by this phenomenon to orientate their voting behaviour;

2017/12/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2209(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that ~~online~~ media pluralism, i~~s under serious threat from the~~ncluding in the online sphere, is under threat, especially when their ownership is excessively concentrat~~ion of corporate power~~ed; asks the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to overcome regulatory deficiencies in order to create legal clarity and consistency to ensure media freedom and prevent the abuse ~~of their~~from dominant p~~osition by web giant~~layers;

2017/12/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

– having regard to Articles 174, 175, 176 and ~~176~~349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas lagging regions suffer more than others from the shortage of public and private investment~~, which is also due to public debt reduction requirements imposed by the Stability Pact~~;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Notes the Commission's report on competitiveness in low-income and low- growth regions: the lagging regions (SWD (2017) 0132) and the solutions proposed to support growth and the economy in these regions; deplores, however, the fact that the report ignores the situation in the Union's outermost regions;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that cohesion policy plays a key role in ensuring investment in all EU ~~regions, especially in lagging~~ regions;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that the paths taken by and challenges facing low-income regions and low-growth regions differ greatly and therefore call for separate development strategies; stresses that future cohesion policy will be effective only if it is tailored to each region's specific characteristics;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses that the Commission's report spells out that if cohesion policy is to provide responses tailored to territories' needs, it must not rely solely on static data but must also take account of trends and sub-regional disparities; calls for cohesion policy reform to be based on the insights gained in this way;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Stresses that the Commission's report highlights, as the Seventh Cohesion Report did, the situation for territories made vulnerable by globalisation and which are at risk of falling behind; stresses that future cohesion policy must not only continue to reduce disparities but also stop territories from falling behind by providing them with tailored support;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that unemployment, particularly among young people, remains dramatically high and represents one of the most serious and pressing problems in lagging regions; stresses that it is important for future cohesion policy to take account of such indicators along with per capita GDP; stresses the fundamental role of education and training in combating the particularly alarming unemployment and departure levels among young people in these regions;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2208(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Highlights the adverse effects of ~~austerity policies, especially in low-growth regions, encouraging public investment cuts and giving priority to debt repayment over any other national budget items~~public investment cuts, but stresses the importance of making savings with a view to eliminating the deficit and of making sure that our children do not end up shouldering the debt burden;

2017/12/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2114(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that EU cohesion policy is the best tool for contributing to both competitiveness and solidarity throughout the EU regions, and it is therefore essential to continue it beyond 2020 for all regions of the Union, in order to combat the disparities between and within regions that have increased following the crisis;

2017/07/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2114(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that disparities and divergences, particularly with regard to employment or unemployment rates, constitute a threat to Economic and Monetary Union and to the European Union in general; emphasises that cohesion policy, which is the main expression of solidarity within the Union, should be accompanied by 'real' convergence efforts and objectives in the economic and social fields to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market;

2017/07/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2114(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses that the single currency, like cohesion policy, serves long-term aims, seeking to generate growth and employment, greater stability, more protection and more opportunities; emphasises that the challenges in the euro zone, namely improvement of its governance, efforts to increase fiscal convergence and better coordination with the measures of the ECB, are likely to create an environment more favourable to the attainment of the objectives of cohesion policy;

2017/07/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2114(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Recognises that the EU needs to address new, serious challenges, and that cohesion policy could be a very important source of financial support for various issues, such as the integration of migrants whose status is regular, education, employment, housing and combating discrimination;

2017/07/19
Committee: REGI

2017/2084(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises the special conditions and opportunities offered by certain territories, such as the outermost regions, when it comes to innovation in clean energy (insularity, climate, sea areas, etc.);

2017/10/23
Committee: REGI

2017/2071(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Highlights that the EIB’s role in cohesion policy is increasing, especially due to the increased use of financial instruments; emphasises that the level of use of financial instruments is still very low and that Member States and the regions point to the complexity of the procedures ~~as one of~~, disproportionate management costs and even competition with more attractive national and regional instruments as the reasons for that;

2017/10/27
Committee: REGI

2017/2071(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Welcomes the fact that, in 2016, more than 50 % of the total approved loans were invested in the transport, energy, industry and water and waste management sectors, which indicates thematic concentration; underlines that projects supporting SMEs and the revitalisation of rural and other less populated, less accessible and underdeveloped areas should ~~have~~be a priority in all sectors;

2017/10/27
Committee: REGI

2017/2071(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Emphasises the importance of the complementary role of national banks and institutions in promoting the implementation of financial instruments tailored to meet local needs;

2017/10/27
Committee: REGI

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas regional cohesion policy is one of the EU’s core policies, bringing Europe together and strengthening its economy; whereas it must be able to reduce disparities between and within regions, and it is therefore key that sufficient funding for cohesion policy is provided for in the MFF;

2017/09/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that regional funding should be protected and should continue to be targeted at all Union regions, by predominantly takeing the form of grants rather than financial instruments~~, which do, however,~~; objects to any numerical and binding targets regarding the use of financial instruments, whatever the category of region, even if they do have an important role to play in certain cases; stresses that in the event of a reduction in the EU’s budgets, greater focus on the EU’s core goals is required;

2017/09/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2052(INI)

Christian EHLER, Pervenche BERÈS, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pascal ARIMONT, Joachim ZELLER, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Silvia COSTA, Luigi MORGANO, Helga TRÜPEL, Patrizia TOIA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Soledad CABEZÓN RUIZ, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Marian-Jean MARINESCU, Heinz K. BECKER, Krišjānis KARIŅŠ, Eva KAILI, Lieve WIERINCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that to increase the impact of the next MFF, further links should be established between EU funds such as the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Structural Funds, the European social fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and Creative Europe.

2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Points out that, to ensure better implementation of the cohesion policy budget in future, this policy needs to be thoroughly simplified on the basis of the recommendations of the high level group, and a broader application of proportionality needs to be considered, in addition to differentiation between regions in the implementation of ESI Fund programmes;

2017/09/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Considers~~that~~ it isessential, in the context of the new MFF,~~to ensure that~~ for budgetary rules, and rules on state aid and cohesion policy spending~~, are~~ to at last be more consistent and simplified.

2017/09/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2052(INI)

Christian EHLER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pascal ARIMONT, Joachim ZELLER, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Silvia COSTA, Luigi MORGANO, Helga TRÜPEL, Patrizia TOIA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Pervenche BERÈS, Heinz K. BECKER, Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Krišjānis KARIŅŠ, Eva KAILI, Lieve WIERINCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Stresses that appropriate recognition and full support of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) would strengthen the impact of the next MFF; recalls the dual nature of the cultural and creative sector: economic (wealth and job creation)and cultural (creating values, meaning and identity);recalls that CCIs are one of Europe’s fastest growing sector, generating 509 billion Euros in value added to GDP per year and representing more than 12 million full time jobs ;calls for additional links between the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Creative Europe programme, as this would help to address the increased industrial dependency on design and creativity; reminds that Creative Europe has consistently boasted excellent performance with full implementation at year-end since the start of this MFF; calls on the Commission to comply with Article 167(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and establish the CCIs as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes and programmes, particularly in the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the EaSI and the ESIFs.

2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE

2017/2052(INI)

Christian EHLER, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Pascal ARIMONT, Joachim ZELLER, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Silvia COSTA, Luigi MORGANO, Helga TRÜPEL, Sabine VERHEYEN, Pervenche BERÈS, Patrizia TOIA, Heinz K. BECKER, Eva KAILI, Lieve WIERINCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls on the Commission to develop , through the MFF, a comprehensive, coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the cultural and creative industries, with adequate funding to CCIs in order to boost their competitiveness and enable them to fulfil their potential in terms of creating quality jobs and growth for the benefit of the Union;

2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE

2017/2052(INI)

Christian EHLER, Pervenche BERÈS, Martina DLABAJOVÁ, Joachim ZELLER, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Silvia COSTA, Luigi MORGANO, Helga TRÜPEL, Patrizia TOIA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Pascal ARIMONT, Heinz K. BECKER, Eva KAILI, Lieve WIERINCK

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Calls on the Commission to facilitate funding to the sector, based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘Cultural and Creative Industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, cultural diversity, individual and/or collective creativity, skills and talent with the potential to generate innovation, wealth and jobs through the creation of social and economic value, in particular from intellectual property; they include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, software and video games, and multimedia and recorded music), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high- end industries and fashion, festivals, live music, performing arts, books and publishing (newspapers and magazines), radio and visual arts, and advertising’, as adopted in its own resolution on “a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industry” of 13 December 2016;

2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE

2017/2044(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines the importance of cohesion policy as one of the main investment instruments of the Union budget to help reduce economic, social and territorial disparities within and between all the European regions; stresses its role in creating growth and jobs across the Union;

2017/07/24
Committee: REGI

2017/2044(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for greater synergies of European Structural and Investment Funds programmes with European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and other financial instruments to leverage additional financing, as well as for greater complementarities with the other Union programmes; in that context supports the EFSI extension until 2020, while stressing that ESIF and EFSI are complimentary but not interchangeable;

2017/07/24
Committee: REGI

2017/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas macro-regional strategies are geared to addressing territorial challenges that can be solved more effectively across national borders (connectivity, biodiversity, environmental protection, blue growth, competitiveness of mountain areas, etc.);

2017/09/18
Committee: REGI

2017/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the need to improve coordination and convergence between the different components of territorial cooperation in macroregional strategy spaces in order to reinforce the positive externalities of the projects being financed;

2017/09/18
Committee: REGI

2017/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses that the Alpine region is delineated by many borders and that the EUSALP can also provide the opportunity to strengthen cross-border cooperation, to forge links and networks between people and to eliminate existing borders and barriers for workers and economic activities; stresses the importance of the challenges facing the Alpine region, in particular in terms of interconnections in transport and digital coverage, innovation and adjustment to climate change;

2017/09/18
Committee: REGI

2017/2040(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Stresses the importance of bringing about a convergence between the perimeters of transnational European territorial cooperation programmes and the perimeters of macro-regions in order to strengthen the strategic dimension of transnational programmes and to simplify the financing of macro-regional strategies;

2017/09/18
Committee: REGI

2017/2039(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recognises that the YEI is an important financial instrument and that greater efforts from the Member States to provide a better link between educational systems and labour markets by promoting long-term partnerships in order to avoid skills mismatches are highly necessary;

2017/10/31
Committee: CULT

2017/2039(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses the importance of an increased cooperation between educational institutions and employers aimed at providing young people with good employment opportunities, including cross-border and EU-wide partnerships; stresses the need to increase the cohesion between the educational systems of the Member States in order to facilitate a greater cross-border and EU-wide mobility of job-seeking graduates;

2017/10/31
Committee: CULT

2017/2039(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to explore a potential extension of the YEI in order to provide students with early advice on their educational and career choices that would be in line with the anticipated demand for skills on the labour market;

2017/10/31
Committee: CULT

2017/2037(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recognises that cities, understood as towns, cities and urban and metropolitan areas, lack a formal role in the institutional framework of the Union, apart from that of their representatives in the Committee of the Regions (CoR); emphasises, however, that almost all EU policies have a considerable impact on cities and that local elected representatives can be a vital intermediary between the EU and its citizens;

2018/04/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2037(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Stefano MAULLU, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the establishment of a ‘one-stop shop’ for cities; calls, however, for its website and documents to be translated into all the official languages of the Union and for better coordination and integration of instruments and programmes dedicated to cities in various EU policies; stresses the importance of promoting fairness between cities, regardless of their size, in relation to access to these instruments and programmes, in particular by developing engineering;

2018/04/05
Committee: REGI

2017/2009(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Recognises the role of civil society in raising awareness among the public and in addressing the SDGs at national and global level through global citizenship education and awareness raising;

2017/04/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2009(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Stefano MAULLU, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Stresses that education is key to developing self-sustainable societies; calls for the EU to link quality education, technical and vocational training and cooperation with industry as an essential pre-condition for youth employability and access to qualified jobs; believes that addressing in particular the issue of access to education in emergency and crisis situations is crucial for both the development and protection of children;

2017/04/04
Committee: CULT

2017/2006(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Maurice PONGA, Maria SPYRAKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas a serious worldwide migration crisis is predicted as a potential result;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the reality of climate change is already being felt in the EU in the form of extreme weather phenomena: hurricanes, storms, desertification, heatwaves, floods and water shortages, and areas such as the outermost regions experience the effects of climate change even more keenly;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the reality of climate change is already being felt in the EU in the form of extreme weather phenomena: desertification, land and shores’ corrosion, heavy rains, heatwaves, floods and water shortages;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Maurice PONGA, Maria SPYRAKI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~more than 70~~almost 72,5% of the EU population, approximately 359 million people, live in cities;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the role played by the EU in the Paris/COP 21 agreement and its role as world leader in the fight against climate change; points out that Europe has the most ambitious climate change goals in the world; Urges that climate change mitigation be considered an urgent priority in EU cohesion policies, in order to meet and indeed exceed the Paris Agreement/COP21 commitments by promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency, without prejudice to the necessary adaptation measures;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Maurice PONGA, Maria SPYRAKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges that climate change mitigation be considered a~~n urgent~~ priority in EU cohesion policies, in order to meet ~~and indeed exceed~~ the Paris Agreement/COP21 commitments by promoting clean energy innovation, renewable energy and energy efficiency, without prejudice to the necessary adaptation measures;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Invites the Commission and Member States to implement ambitious targets ~~in their legislation, that should be mandatory~~ for the Member States and regional and local authorities~~, in line with the request made by the Committee of the Regions in its opinion of 9 February 2017~~;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Deplores ~~the grave irresponsibility of sections of industry, the media and politics that continue to deny the evidence of climate change~~non-cooperative strategies that put the environment - a shared resource - at risk;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Points out that climate change interacts with factors such as ~~social and gender segregation,~~ migration, the demographic challenge, urbanisation, technological change and energy transition , which meands that ~~this requires an overarching vision, which is more feasible and effective on a local scale~~a comprehensive approach which takes account of local circumstances will be necessary;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Warns of the ~~economic impact that is currently affecting – and will affect significantly more seriously in the future – public health and social care systems that are already overburdened and~~societal costs incurred for public health and social care, which are facing a precarious economic situation, and ~~that~~which will be required to meet growing and more complex needs;

2017/12/14
Committee: REGI

2017/2006(INI)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Règlement (UE) n° 2017/825
Article 4

The general objective of the Programme shall be to contribute to institutional, administrative and growth-sustaining structural reforms in the Member States by providing support to national authorities for measures aimed at reforming and strengthening institutions, governance, public administration, and economic and social sectors in response to economic and social challenges, with a view to enhancing cohesion, competitiveness, productivity, sustainable growth, job creation, ~~and~~ investment and real convergence in the Union, which will also prepare for participation in the euro area, in particular in the context of economic governance processes, including through assistance for the efficient, effective and transparent use of the Union funds.;

2018/05/16
Committee: REGI

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) In order not to impede trade with goods across the external border disproportionately, this Regulation should only apply to goods meeting a certain age and value limit. For that purpose, it seems appropriate to set a 250 year minimum age threshold for all categories of cultural goods. That minimum age threshold will ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation focus on cultural goods most likely to be targeted by looters in conflict areas, without excluding other goods the control of which is necessary for ensuring protection of cultural heritage and a financial threshold for certain categories of cultural goods as stated in the Annex. Certain categories of cultural goods should not be subject to a financial threshold since they require a reinforced protection due to their higher risk of pillage, loss or destruction. The minimum age threshold will ensure that the measures provided for in this Regulation focus on cultural goods most likely to be targeted by looters in conflict areas, without excluding other goods the control of which is necessary for ensuring protection of cultural heritage. The minimum financial threshold for certain categories of cultural goods is the value established for most of the categories contained in the Annex of the Regulation (EC) no 116/2009 on the export of cultural goods, which is in line with the objective of the proposal and will minimise the burden on the art market operators.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Since certain categories of cultural goods~~, namely archaeological objects, elements of monuments, rare manuscripts and incunabula~~ are particularly vulnerable to pillage and destruction, it seems necessary to provide for a system of increased scrutiny before they may enter the customs territory of the Union. Such a system should require the presentation of a licence issued by the competent authority of the Member State of entry prior to the release for free circulation of those goods or their placement under a special customs procedure other than transit when the goods come from countries designated by a United Nations Security Council Resolution laying down restrictive measures applied to cultural goods, or by a similar measure adopted by the Union in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Persons seeking to obtain such a licence should be able to prove licit export from the source country with the appropriate supportive documents and evidence, in particular, export ~~certificates or~~ licences issued by the third country of export, ownership titles, invoices, sales contracts, insurance documents, transport documents and experts appraisals. Based on complete and accurate applications, the competent authorities of the Member States should decide whether to issue a licence without undue delay.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) For other categories of cultural goods, the persons seeking to introduce them into the customs territory of the Union should, by means of an electronic statement, certify and assume responsibility for their lawful export from the third country and should provide sufficient information for those goods to be identified by customs. In order to facilitate the procedure and for reasons of legal certainty, the information about the cultural good should be provided using an electronic standardised document. The Object ID standard, recommended by UNESCO, should be used to describe the cultural goods. ~~Customs should register the entry of those cultural goods, keep the originals and give a copy of the relevant documents to the declara~~Those cultural goods should be electronically registered and the declarant should be provided with a copy of the relevant submitted document,s in order to ensure traceability after the goods enter the internal market.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) Temporary admission of cultural goods for educational, scientific, restoration or academic research purposes or within a cooperation between museums or similar public non-profit institutions should not be subject to the presentation of a licence or of a statement.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) Temporary admission of cultural goods for educational, scientific or academic research purposes or for the purpose of cooperation between non- profit museums or public institutions should not be subject to the presentation of a licence or of a statement.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)

(13a) Cultural goods to be presented at commercial fairs and international art fairs should not be subject to the presentation of an import licence.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) In order to take account of experience with the implementation of this Regulation and of changing geopolitical and other circumstances which place cultural goods at risk, while not impeding trade with third countries disproportionally, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of modifications to the minimum age and financial threshold criterion for the different categories of cultural goods. That delegation should also allow the Commission to update the Annex following amendments to the Combined Nomenclature. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 201627 . In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. __________________ 27 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission to adopt specific modalities for the temporary admission and storage of cultural goods into the customs territory of the Union, ~~the~~which should be done while guaranteeing adequate conservation conditions, having due regard to the specific nature of the goods. Those modalities should also apply to the electronic standardised templates for import licence applications and forms, as well as for electronic importer statements and their accompanying documents, as well as to further procedural rules on their electronic submission and processing. Implementing powers should also be conferred on the Commission to make arrangements for the establishment of an electronic database for the storage and exchange of information between Member States. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council28 . __________________ 28 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) ‘cultural goods’ means any object which is of importance for archaeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or science and which belongs to the categories listed in the table in Annex and meets the minimum age threshold specified thereinlisted in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 116/2009 of 18 December 2008;

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) 'cultural goods' means any object which is of importance for archaeology, prehistory, history, literature, art or science and which belongs to the categories listed in the table in Annex and meets the minimum age and financial threshold specified therein;

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) 'export country' means the last country in which the cultural goods were ~~permanently~~ held in accordance with that country's laws and regulations before their dispatch to the Union;

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d

~~(d) 'permanently' means for a period of time of at least one month and for purposes other than temporary use, transit, export or dispatch;~~deleted

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 in order to amend the ~~second column of the table in the Annex following amendments in the Combined Nomenclature and to ame~~categories of cultural goods and the minimum age threshold in the ~~third column of the table in the~~ Annex, in the light of ~~experience ga~~the re~~d during~~sults of the implementation of this Regulation.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2

2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 in order to amend the second column of the table in the Annex following amendments in the Combined Nomenclature and to amend the minimum age ~~threshol~~and fin ~~the third column of the table~~ancial threshold in the Annex, in the light of experience gathered during the implementation of this Regulation.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 in order to modify the categories of goods that are subject to the presentation of an import licence or the submission of an importer statement to the customs authorities of the first Member State of entry, in the light of the experience gathered during the implementation of this Regulation.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) the temporary admission, within the meaning of Article 250 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, in the customs territory of the Union of cultural goods for educational, scientific, restoration and academic research purposes and within a cooperation between museums or similar public non-profit institutions organizing cultural exhibitions;

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) the temporary admission, within the meaning of Article 250 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, in the customs territory of the Union of cultural goods for educational, scientific and academic research purposes, and for the purpose of cooperation between museums or public non-profit institutions for the organisation of exhibitions;

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Temporary admissions, within the meaning of Article 250 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, in the customs territory of the Union of cultural goods presented at commercial fairs and international art fairs should be permitted provided an importer statement is submitted in accordance with Article 5.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. The ~~release for free circulation and the placing under a special procedure ot~~import into the Union of the cultural goods referred to in the Annex shall be subject to an import licence where th~~an transit in the Union of the cultural goods referred to in points (c), (d) and (h) of the Annex shall be subject to~~ose goods come from countries designated by a United Nations Security Council Resolution laying down restrictive measures applied to cultural goods, or by a similar measure adopted by the Union in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 215 of the pTre~~senta~~aty on the Functioning of ~~an import licence to the customs authorities.~~ the European Union, except for transit.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. In the event of rejection of the application, the administrative decision referred to in paragraph 4 shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons including information on the appeal procedure which is communicated to the applicant affected at the time it is issued.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. The release for free circulation and the placing under a special procedure other than transit in the Union of the cultural goods referred to in points (a), (b), (e), (f), (g), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of the Anneximport of the cultural goods referred to in the Annex which are not covered by Article 4 shall be subject to the submission of an importer statement ~~to the customs authorities of the Member State of entry~~.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

In cases where the source country of the cultural goods cannot be reliably determined, the importer statement shall contain a declaration signed by the holder of the goods stating that the cultural goods were exported from the export country in accordance with its laws and regulations.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0158(COD)

Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. In case of retention of the cultural goods, adequate conservation conditions shall be guaranteed in accordance with the conditions and responsibilities for the temporary storage of goods as stated in Article 147 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, having due regard to the specific nature of the goods.

2018/03/28
Committee: CULT

2017/0102(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 a (new)

Article 8a The European Solidarity Service shall provide equal opportunities for all young people in the EU, regardless of the national opportunities. It shall also position solidarity actions and volunteering at the heart of the European project and boosts the importance of solidarity across European borders;

2017/11/06
Committee: CULT

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

– having regard to all the communications issued on the outermost regions by the Commission,

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)

– having regard to all its resolutions on the outermost regions, in particular the resolution on the role of cohesion policy in the outermost regions of the EU in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy and that on optimising the potential of outermost regions by creating synergies between the Structural Funds and other EU programmes,

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)

– having regard to the Court of Justice judgment of 15 December 2015 on the interpretation of Article 349 of the TFEU,

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas cohesion policy remains the main EU-wide investment policy for growth, competitiveness and sustainable job creation after 2020, especially against the backdrop of a sharp decline in public and private investments in many Member States and the implications of globalisation;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas, in order for a post-2020 cohesion policy to be able to realise its full potential, the rules need to be radically simplified and thought needs to be given to increasing proportionality and introducing arrangements for differentiated implementation of programmes coming under the ESI Funds;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that although cohesion policy has mitigated the impact of the crisis, regional disparities and social inequalities remain high; calls for continuous action to reduce disparities, particularly in less developed regions, while maintaining and consolidating support for transition and for more developed regions so as to facilitate ownership of the policy in all regions;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Points out that territorial cooperation in all its forms, including macro-regional strategies, transposes the concept of political cooperation and coordination of regions and citizens across borders in the EU; underlines the merit of cohesion policy in addressing the specific challenges of outermost ~~and northernmost sparsely populated regions~~regions, on the basis of Article 349 of the TFEU, and of northernmost sparsely populated regions, on the basis of Article 174 of the TFEU;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines that the current categorisation of regions, the special arrangements for outermost regions, the thematic objectives and the performance framework have demonstrated the value of cohesion policy and should be consolidated; asks the Commission to present ideas for greater flexibility, such as an unallocated reserve or a simplification of re-programming, in order to adapt ESIF investments to unforeseen events and to the specific needs of each region;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. AStresses that the use of one-size- fits-all approach to cohesion policy intervention, irrespective of the scale of programmes, administrative capacity and the results achieved in individual regions, is one of the main causes of the current complexity; asks the Commission to reflect on solutions based on proportionality and differentiation for the implementation of programmes coming under the ESI Funds, especially with regard to the multiple layers of audit and the ~~number of controls, to a greater harm~~controls; calls also on the Commission to ensure consis~~ation~~tency between cohesion policy and competition policy, in particular state aid rules, a~~s well as with regard~~ nd to look into the possibility of a single set of rules for all ESI Funds;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Believes that grants should remain the basis of the financing of cohesion policy; notes, however, the gradual shift from grants to financial instruments; points out that the replacement of grants by loans, equity or guarantees must be carried out with caution where such financial instruments demonstrate an added value, taking into account regional disparities and the diversity of practices and experiences; stresses the importance of assistance to local and regional authorities on the innovative financial instruments through platforms such as fi-compass; Stresses that the success of financial instruments depends on a number of factors and that it is not possible to draw general, universal conclusions about their efficiency on the basis of one criterion, such as level of development; takes the view that all regions should be able to decide on the implementation of financial instruments and intervention sectors on a voluntary basis and according to local needs; opposes binding quantified targets for the use of financial instruments;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Invites the Commission to reflect on the development of alternative indicators to the GDP indicator, which remains the legitimate method for allocating ESI Funds fairly; such ~~alternative~~complementary indicators may ~~include~~be based on a demographic or geographical indicator or ~~dynamic~~social indicators ~~based on social and~~ such as unemployment ~~aspect~~rates; stresses, furthermore, the relevance of outcome indicators to strengthen the result and performance orientation of the policy;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of the ESF, the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative, especially in the fight against long-term and youth unemployment in the Union, which are at a historically high level, particularly in less developed regions, but also in the outermost regions and regions which have been hit hardest by the crisis; emphasises the key role played by SMEs in job creation – accounting for 80 % of jobs in the Union – in promoting innovative sectors such as the digital and low-carbon economies;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Welcomes the Pact of Amsterdam and the better recognition accorded to the role of cities and urban areas in European policy-making and demands an effective implementation of the partnerships and cooperative working methods that the Pact entails; calls on the Commission to improve coordination between the various tools aimed at cities, while reducing the administrative burden;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls for growth, the fostering of economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity across the EU to be put at the top of the EU agenda, and to maintain the fight against poverty and social exclusion, as well as against discrimination;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Reiterates that it is high time to prepare the post-2020 EU cohesion policy in order to launch it effectively at the very start of the new programming period; draws attention to the importance of issuing in good time, in all the official languages and in advance of the eligibility period, all documents relating to the future legal framework, and banning the retrospective application and interpretation of rules;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Notes that the core of the current cohesion policy legislative framework should be maintained after 2020 with a simplified, differentiated, refined, easily accessible and result- orientated policy that benefits all the European regions and with an added value of the policy which is better communicated to citizens; insists on the need to maintain, and even reinforce, the specific tools for the outermost regions as part of future cohesion policy;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2326(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses in view of the Commission’s proposal 2016/0282(COD) that the reception of legal migrants and refugees as well as their social and economic integration requires a coherent transnational approach, which should also be addressed through the current and future EU cohesion policy;

2017/04/04
Committee: REGI

2016/2306(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recognises the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is designed to support high- risk investment projects, in boosting growth and employment; ~~is concerned, however, about the enormous imbalance in use of the Fund between the EU15 (91% of funding) and the EU13 (9% of funding)~~underlines that the Commission has proposed providing more targeted local technical assistance in order to improve the geographical coverage of the EFSI across the EU; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds; emphasises, however, that this should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union;

2016/12/16
Committee: REGI

2016/2305(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Welcomes the Gigabit Society targets to attain network speeds of 100Mbps for all European consumers and from 1Gbps to 100Gbps in the future for the main socio-economic drivers such as schools, major transport hubs, financial institutions and digitally intensive businesses;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Believes that 5G is more than an evolution of mobile broadband and that it will be a key enabler of the future digital world, the next generation of ubiquitous ultra-high broadband infrastructure that will support the transformation of processes in all economic sectors (healthcare, energy, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, automotive, VR, online gaming and so forth), and of the growing consumer market demand in every citizen's life;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Emphasises the particular importance of improved connectivity in remote areas and isolated regions enabling advances in healthcare, education, media, resource management, transportation, agriculture, and many other areas;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Calls on the Commission to promote the deployment of 5G networks and to support 5G-based innovation also in remote areas;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Considers that Europe should ensure the continuous education of skilled people with regards to new systems and new application domains by establishing and making available 5G skills development curricula in partnership with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Digital;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Believes that 5G will enable new high-quality services, connect new industries and ultimately improve the customer experience for increasingly sophisticated and demanding digital users;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. Believes that efforts should be focused on the development of such new skills in system and solution designs through major investment in education, with also the support of the European Social Fund, that together can wipe out the digital divide and avoid digital exclusion;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2305(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Recommends that the Commission establishes an annual progress review, including reporting on recommendations, on the 5G Action Plan and informs the European Parliament of the results;

2017/02/01
Committee: CULT

2016/2304(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas information and communication should be improved not only downstream with regard to the concrete uses that ESI funds are put to but also upstream to make project initiators aware of funding possibilities;

2017/03/29
Committee: REGI

2016/2304(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that ensuring the visibility of cohesion policy investments should remain primarily the responsibility of local and regional authorities, as they constitute the most effective interface of communication with citizens by bringing Europe closer to them; stresses that improving the visibility of the European funds requires communication and transparency efforts at grassroots level;

2017/03/29
Committee: REGI

2016/2304(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls also the long-term strategic nature of cohesion policy investments, meaning that sometimes results are not seen immediately, which is detrimental to the visibility of its instruments, especially in comparison with other Union tools such as the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI); stresses, moreover, that while the results of certain investments (especially investments in human capital) are less visible and harder to quantify than 'physical' investments, this should in no way undermine their legitimacy;

2017/03/29
Committee: REGI

2016/2304(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Welcomes~~Notes with all due caution the initiative of the V4 countries on the externalities of cohesion policy in EU-1517 and calls on the Commission to draft a broader objective study at EU-28 level; further urges the Commission to differentiate its communication strategies towards net contributor and net beneficiary Member States, while highlighting the specific benefits that cohesion policy brings in terms of the real economy, fostering entrepreneurship and innovation and creating growth and jobs in all EU regions, both through direct investments and direct and indirect exports (externalities); _________________ 17 Report prepared within the Ex post evaluation and forecast of benefits to EU- 15 countries as a result of Cohesion Policy implementation in V4 countries, commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and entitled ‘How do EU-15 Member States benefit from the Cohesion Policy in the V4.

2017/03/29
Committee: REGI

2016/2304(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Taking into consideration how EU cohesion policy contributes to positive identification with the European integration project, calls for the introduction of a compulsory percentage of technical assistance set aside for communication, both at programme and project level, and also of a mandatory project selection criterion linked to the quality of the communication activities proposed by each project promoter, while guarding against increasing the number of constraints and ensuring the necessary flexibility;

2017/03/29
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas there is a need to optimise the link between technical assistance on the Commission’s initiative and technical assistance measures carried out at national and regional level;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the positive impact of the work of the Task Force for Greece and the Support Group for Cyprus on the implementation of the ESI Funds in those two countries, and in particular on absorption rates; however notes that according to the European Court of Auditors special report entitled 'More attention to results needed to improve the delivery of technical assistance to Greece', there have been mixed results in achieving effective and sustainable reform;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Highlights the importance of technical assistance in the domain of financial instruments, the use of which is exponentially increasing while they are rather complex by their nature; welcomes, in this respect, the partnership between the Commission and the European Investment Bank on the establishment of the fi- compass platform; stresses, however, that a sign of greater capacity and simplification in this area should ultimately be a reduction of technical assistance; stresses, furthermore, the need for complementarity with technical assistance measures carried out downstream at national and regional level;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Emphasises that technical assistance is in essence different from other actions financed by the ESI Funds and that it is particularly difficult to measure its results; highlights, however, that, given its necessity, the level of resources available under it and its potential, there is a strong need for a ~~coordinated,~~n approach that is strategic ~~and~~, transparent a~~pproach~~nd coordinated at the various levels of governance;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Is concerned that in certain Member States technical assistance does not reach the local and regional authorities in an effective way; highlights that it is crucial to establish sound communication channels between the different levels of governance in order to successfully implement the ESI Funds, but also to restore trust in the effective functioning of the EU and its policies, in particular by drastically simplifying the implementation of EU funds;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2303(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission to promote the fungibility of technical assistance measures to allow for economies of scale to be made and for the financing of measures common to various ESI Funds;

2017/03/24
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Highlights that intervention logic is not a dividing line but a meeting point of grants and financial instruments so that Cohesion Policy can ensure better coverage of beneficiaries and investment gaps through a variety of measures; points out that intervention logic is a bottom-up approach in ESI Funds programming and that all Member States and all regions should continue freely setting the share of financial instruments in their respective operational programmes;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that the success of financial instruments depends on a number of factors and that it is not possible to draw general, universal conclusions about their efficiency based on one criteria, such as level of development; stresses that, in the most highly developed regions or those in transition, management and implementation costs could be disproportionate to the scale of the operational programmes, and that these tools could come into conflict with more attractive national or regional instruments; stresses, therefore, that the primary focus of financial instruments should be the sectors and actions they can support;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recognises that both grants and financial instruments have their specific roles in Cohesion Policy but that they share the same focus pursued by the 11 thematic objectives, which is to achieve the five headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy; stresses that financial instruments must be promoted when they have added value and on the basis of the sectors and actions they can support, but that financial engineering should not become an end in itself;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Highlights that financial instruments could perform better in well- developed regions and metropolitan areas, ~~while~~and that grants address regional structural issues, but that no general conclusions can be drawn about the link between the efficiency of financial instruments and level of development; notes that increasing the share of financial instruments should not influence the grant appropriations as this would hinder the balance; emphasises that in a number of public policies grants have to dominate, while financial instruments can play complementary roles;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Recalls that existing experience in delivery of ESI Funds indicates that the funding mix of grants and financial instruments addresses country-specific realities as well as the gaps in social, economic and territorial cohesion; emphasises that the funding mix cannot result in a one-size-fits-all solution owing to a number of factors: geographic region, policy area, beneficiary type and size, administrative capacity, market conditions, the existence of competing instruments, business environment and fiscal and economic stance;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2302(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, Mady DELVAUX, António MARINHO E PINTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Stresses that all regions should be able to decide on the implementation of financial instruments and intervention sectors on a voluntary basis and according to local needs; opposes binding quantified targets for the use of financial instruments;

2017/02/06
Committee: REGI

2016/2276(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the intermediaries of yesterday have become today’s providers of content and play an essential role in terms of access to content including cultural and audiovisual content;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas in order to put an end to the copyright related ambiguity between active user-uploaded content platforms and those having an activity of mere intermediaries, it is necessary to clarify that the limited liability provided by Article 14 of the E-Commerce Directive is only applicable to platforms having a passive intermediary role, that is to say without intervening in the organisation, optimisation or promotion of the content;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas platforms can have double roles as intermediaries but also competitors which can potentially lead to abuse;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, Mady DELVAUX, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas a duty of care should be imposed under certain conditions to online service providers to detect and prevent illegal activities on platforms by any technically reliable means;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the urgent need for clarification of the status of platforms that play an active role in public communication and the reproduction of protected works;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, António MARINHO E PINTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on platforms to take appropriate measures to ensure the proper functioning of contractual agreements concluded with right holders for the use of copyright protected works, such as the installation of effective content recognition technologies, where appropriate;

2017/04/07
Committee: JURI

2016/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17 a. Stresses that despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the creative sectors have not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption; stress that one of the main reasons for that is being referred to as a transfer of value that has emerged due to the lack of clarity regarding the status of these online services under copyright and e-commerce law; stress that an unfair market has been created, threatening the development of the Digital Single Market and its main players: the cultural and creative industries;

2017/03/27
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2016/2276(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Highlights that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online providers, and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

2017/03/27
Committee: ITRE IMCO

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Considers it necessary to provide better support for diversification of production in the outermost regions, and to introduce actions designed to resolve the market crises which certain sectors are facing, particularly the tomato and livestock sectors, and to facilitate the development of small-scale holdings, such as dairy product holdings;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

18c. Urges the Commission to plan a specific financial allocation for the outermost regions when exceptional and emergency aid is granted to the agricultural sector because of serious market crises;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Deplor~~Stresses, in the name of consistency of policies, the fact that the efforts made in the outermost regions to modernise and to render their ~~traditional~~ industries competitive ~~are increasingly being jeopardised by~~should not be undermined by the negative effects that certain free trade agreements signed between the EU and third countries may have on the economies of the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the European Commission to encourage the farmers of the outermost regions to promote their high-quality products by supporting the use of the outermost regions logo, as well as other forms of quality certification;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Deplores the fact that~~Calls for the trade negotiations conducted by the Union ~~fail to~~to duly take into account ~~either~~ the specific characteristics orand the ~~sensitive~~ products of the outermost regions, and in particular bananas, sugar, rum, tomatoes and fishery products;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Considers that the Union’s trade policy ought not to endangers the ~~small number of products which are exported and the traditional industries on which the economies of the outermost regions depend~~industries of the outermost regions, since they play a major role in economic, social and environmental terms;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the ~~Union’s trade policies to be adjusted so as to take full account of the competitive disadvantages of the outermost regions; calls for the~~ preservation of tariff and non-tariff barriers which are ~~vital~~necessary for the protection of the sensitive products of the outermost regions and for safeguard clauses and stabilisation mechanisms to be activated in the event of the products of the outermost regions being seriously affected, or the threat of such an occurrence;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. ~~Calls for the system~~Underlines the limits ofn t~~olerance of imports to be abandoned which makes it possible for goods to enter the Union that have been treated with active substances not authorised there~~he principle of equivalence, particularly for organic agriculture products, which makes it possible for products from third countries which are not in compliance with all the European requirements to enter the European Union; Calls for the principle of compliance to be applied immediately;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. ~~Calls on the Union to remove all the regulatory obstacles, to authorise aid for the renewal of traditional fishing fleets in the outermost regions, to increase invest~~In the interests of the survival of the fisheries sector in the outermost regions, and in accordance with the principles of differentiated treatment for the small islands and territories referred to in SDG 14, calls on the Commission to create support measures based on Article 349 TFEU to enable the funding (whether European or national) of the artisanal and traditional fishing boats of the outermost regions which land all their catches in outermost region ports and contribute to local sustainable development, w~~hich is needed for the sustainable development of local fishing and to protect sensitive fishing grounds of the outermost regions~~ith a view to increasing human safety, compliance with European hygiene standards, combating IUU fishing and becoming more environmentally friendly; notes that the renewal of the fishing fleet must remain within the permitted capacity ceilings, must be restricted to replacing an old ship with a new one and must be conducive to sustainable fishing and the attainment of the MSY objective;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. C~~onsiders that the Union has, overall, under-invested in the seas and oceans and more specifically in the case of~~alls on the Union to support the outermost regions, so that ~~it has not ensured~~they can progress with the sustainable and efficient economic development of their exclusive economic zones ~~of the outermost regions, and that it has left these marine areas at the mercy of pillage of their resources by fishing fleets, both foreign and European~~;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. ~~Deplores the fact that, by means of this under-investment, the Union ends up almost exclusively becoming, and regarding itself as, a continental entity and not also a~~Calls on the European Union to rely upon the outermost regions in an effort to reinforce its position as an international maritime power;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Calls for the creation of a specific instrument for fisheries in the outermost regions, based on former Regulation No 1791/2007 and drawing inspiration from the agricultural POSEI regulation, with a view, in particular, to ensuring legal certainty in relation to the plans for compensation of additional costs through ex ante approval by the Commission and permanent funding;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Recalls the shared objective of twofold integration of the outermost regions; calls for all schemes concerned with cross-border cooperation between the outermost regions and third countries or the overseas countries and territories in their geographical regions to be intensified and made operational;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

~~35. Deplores the fact that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has not adopted either geographical distribution criteria or criteria specific to the outermost regions;~~deleted

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36a. Recalls that the most important fund for training and employment is the European Social Fund (ESF); calls on the Commission – in view of the structural nature and critical levels of unemployment in the outermost regions, and on the basis of Article 349 TFEU, which grants the outermost regions the right to specific access to the Structural Funds – to create an additional allocation within the framework of the ESF in order to support employability, mobility and training in the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 6

Competition policy and State aid

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Recalls, furthermore, that Article 107(3) TFEU states that aid to promote the economic development of the outermost regions may be considered to be compatible with the internal market, in view of their structural, economic and social situation;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Marc JOULAUD, Gabriel MATO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. ~~Deplores the fact that~~Calls on the Commission to rely on Articles 107(3)(a) and TFEU in the Regional State Aid Guidelines and the GBER (General Block Exemption Regulation) ~~do not take sufficient account of Article 107(3)(a) and Article 349 TFEU and that they create a situation which may lastingly damage~~in order to contribute to the economic and social development of the outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. ~~Condemns~~Warns of trade practices such as those of clearance markets, which ~~end up~~can destabilis~~ing~~e the island micro-markets of local economies;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7

Research, ~~environment~~business competitiveness, environment, education, transport, energy and telecommunications

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. ~~Does not consider that any of the Union’~~Calls on the Commission to lay down in its horizontal programmes ~~provides for~~ access conditions specific to the outermost regions; ~~regards this situation as particularly discriminatory;~~

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)

45a. Points out the central role played by SMEs in the outermost regions with regard to economic and social development; calls on the Commission, therefore, to take better account of the situation of the outermost regions within the framework of the COSME programmes, or the EU employment and social innovation programme (EaSI);

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Sofia RIBEIRO, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 b (new)

45b. Would like to see an improvement in the way the common characteristics of the outermost regions are taken into account within the framework of the Erasmus programme, including through the promotion of exchanges between outermost regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Lambert van NISTELROOIJ, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. ~~Deplor~~Stresses the fact that the ~~Natura 2000 programme is not applicable to the French outerm~~outermost regions enjoy extraordinary biodiversity and that they are particularly seriously affected by the effects of climate change, therefore instruments specific to thoste regions~~; considers this situation to be particul~~ need to be introduced to combat those effects; calls on the Commission once again to put the BEST preliminarly ~~damaging to the~~action on a permanent footing by creating a sustainable mechanism for funding protject~~ion~~s ofn biodiversity ~~and the environment in those region~~, the promotion of ecosystem services and adaptation to climate change in European overseas countries and territories;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)

47a. Recalls that, in its Special Report 01/2017, the European Court of Auditors considered that ‘significant progress is needed from the Member States, and more efforts from the Commission, in order to better contribute to the ambitious goals of the EU 2020 biodiversity strategy’;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Considers that people and businesses in the outermost regions do not enjoy the same right to freedom of movement as other European citizens, and calls on the European Union to ~~establish a programme relating to~~support programmes designed to provide the territorial continuity of the outermost regions and promoting free movement of citizens between the outermost regions and the Union or between different outermost regions; calls on the Union to exclude the outermost regions from the ETS;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2250(INI)

Maurice PONGA, Gabriel MATO, Marc JOULAUD, Sofia RIBEIRO, Cláudia MONTEIRO DE AGUIAR, Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)

48a. Calls for the creation of a specific POSEI-type programme for transport to promote the territorial, social and economic cohesion of the regions and to reduce the isolation, or double isolation, of some outermost regions; stresses that this programme should provide for support for the transport of people and goods between the outermost regions and the continent, within the outermost regions themselves and between outermost regions that are close to each other, such as the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Isles; stresses that this programme should also promote trade between these regions;

2017/04/12
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas demographic change is one of the main challenges for local development in the EU today, together with employment-related issues, globalisation, the technological shift, climate change and inclusiveness;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas demographic change does not affect all ~~region~~territories in a uniform manner, with the majority of urban areas experiencing a population gain and most rural and remote areas experiencing a decline, the picture being very mixed in the outermost regions; whereas such imbalances represent major challenges both for ~~region~~territories suffering from depopulation and for those experiencing a population influx;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas European regions are not unbroken expanses of territory; whereas they can contain pockets of unemployment or poverty and face particular challenges, especially as regards demographic change, making it vital to set up targeted instruments to reduce subregional disparities and help bring about a better territorial balance in terms of urban, peri-urban, and rural areas;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas demographic change is exacerbating the process of societal fragmentation and the polarisation of our societies, with growing disparities in terms of economic capacity and service accessibility, which translate into connectivity divides or medical deserts;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that the main problems relating to the demographic change currently experienced by many ~~EU regions~~parts of the EU are decreasing population densities, an ageing population due to structural changes in the age period, falling birth rates and gradual depopulation;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out, however, that the situation varies greatly from one region or territory to the next, especially in the outermost regions, some of which are having to cope with growing population pressure caused by a high birth rate and large-scale irregular migration;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that effective EU support for immigration policies in the Member States, without encroaching on their sovereignty or infringing the subsidiarity principle, can mitigate population loss in declining areas; considers that local and regional authorities should be empowered in devising and implementing policies to promote social ~~inclusion and multiculturalism~~and cultural inclusion;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Points to the importance of taking greater account, under the future cohesion policy, of specific territorial characteristics which manifest themselves at subregional levels;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Invites the Commission to consider the establishment of new ~~criteria that could~~social indicators in addition to per capita GDP, not least with a view to pinpointing the territories facing demographic ~~challenges; considers that GDP and population density are not sufficient indicators in this regard~~or employment- related challenges;

2017/07/03
Committee: REGI

2016/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises that the Arctic ~~should be seen as a place of~~faces serious challenges, but also has a number of opportunities and some valuable assets, including, above all, its research, ecotourism, sustainable industry, green technology and know-how, a~~s well as a site of~~reas that have the potential to benefit many companies – especially SMEs – which thrive on innovative business models and innovative technologies;

2016/10/18
Committee: REGI

2016/2151(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Urges the Commission through the HLG1 to pay specific attention to national eligibility rules in its audit of national management and control systems, helping Member States to simplify them; urges the Commission to clarify the notion of recoverable VAT by providing guidance; calls on the Commission to fundamentally simplify the state aid rules, in particular to ensure better co-ordination with cohesion policy; _________________ 1 High Level Group of Independent Experts on Monitoring Simplification for Beneficiaries of the European Structural and Investment Funds

2016/12/13
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 26 November 2015 entitled ‘Towards simplification and performance orientation in cohesion policy 2014-2020’,

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recalls that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the EU Cohesion Policy’'s main financial instruments; underlines that the aim of these funds is to address a funding gap that is hampering the ability of businesses and SMEs to grow and innovate, and to support strategic investments in key areas such as infrastructure, education, research and innovation; notes that it also fosters the importance of equal access to education and training in delivering genuine convergence and reducing disparities and socioeconomic inequalities among European regions;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Recalls that two million companies will be directly supported by the ESI Funds, to boost their competitiveness and increase their research and innovation capacity; welcomes that almost 15 million households will have access to high-speed broadband thanks to European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) support, while almost 20 million people in rural areas will have new or improved ICT services or infrastructure with the support of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD);

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets that the overall level of the MFF 2014-2020 is lower compared with the MFF 2007-2013; stresses that in a period of austerity policies and extreme fiscal adjustments, pressure on Member States’ budgets increases; highlights the fact that such pressure has led toNotes with concern a decrease in the budget between MFF 2014-2020 and MFF 2007-2013; notes that a decrease in public financing for education ~~and has~~may contribute to generated high and persistent unemployment, especially among young people;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Notes that the ESIF targets areas which foster an environment for job creation such as the areas of education, training, cultural and creative industries, by supplementing national budgets and compensating for decreasing investment levels;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Calls for more investment in the area of education and social inclusion, vocational training and life-long learning to improve both the relevance of education and training systems and the transition from education to work and life-long learning; stresses the need for concentrated funding to prevent early school leaving and for equal access to quality education;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes thate importance of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) tha~~s failed to date to~~t can address the persisting problem of high levels of youth unemployment, which in several Member States remains at over 40 %; calls for an evaluation of the YEI following a fully fledged assessment of its performance; asks the Commission to take all necessary actions to ensure its continuation and its revision in order to promote the creation of new high-asks the Commission to promote infrastructures that create new quality jobs and ~~decent~~ social protection for young people within the framework of the European Structural and Investment Fund;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Notes that there appear to be increased difficulties in filling vacancies due to skills mismatch in the labour market, stresses that the problems of mismatched skills, limited geographic mobility and precarious practices of work need to be addressed through ESIF and calls for a closer cooperation between higher education institutions, training bodies and SMEs in the field of access to ESIF;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States comply with the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities when implementing projects supported by the ESIF;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3 c. Positively notes that the objectives of the European Structural and Investment Fund legislative package for 2014-2020 includes the aim to foster a shift from institutional to community living for persons with disabilities and calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States respect the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities when implementing the ESIF in this regard;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3 d. Underlines the importance of the Smart Specialisation Strategies that are helping the shift from a classic ICT sector approach to a comprehensive one, empowering regions to identify ICT investment priorities relevant for their territory; calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States and regions develop the necessary infrastructures and strategies before making any digital investments using ESIF, in order to optimise their impact;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3 e. Recalls, that EUR 2.2 billion from the European Social Fund (ESF) will be accessible to support human capital development in ICT focusing on ICT skills, support for business creation and e- justice, and that this should be supported by funds that improve simplification of procedures and processes as well as transparency;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Milan ZVER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)

3 f. Emphasises the need to maintain the traditional trades, including the craft tradition and associated skills, and to establish strategies to foster growth for traditional trade entrepreneurship in order to maintain the cultural identity of the traditional trade sectors; draws attention to the importance of supporting work linked to professional training and the mobility of young craftsmen and women;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that ~~the current~~ migration ~~crisis~~ poses many challenges for the educational and training systems of ~~the host~~ Member States; calls on the EU institutions to provide, via ESIF and other Union programmes, adequate funding ~~to host countries in order to substantially support~~for projects that facilitate the integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers into education and training systems;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines the need to enhance coordination and to enable and optimise synergies between ESIF and other Union programmes in order to achieve greater impact and efficiency. and to boost growth and jobs in the EU;

2016/09/13
Committee: CULT

2016/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Stresses that state aid rules apply to ESI Funds, but not to EFSI and Horizon 2020, causing problems in increasing the level of synergy among the instruments; underlines the fact that if there is an ambition to extend EFSI or any similar types of financial instrument, the question of state aid rules needs to be adapted accordingly; calls for a thoroughgoing simplification of state aid rules and clarification of the relationship between these rules and the rules governing ESI Funds;

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Supports a further balanced increase in financial instruments; asks the Commission, therefore, to come forward with incentives for managing authorities to achieve this; stresses that financial instruments must be promoted if they present added value, but that all regions must have a diversified range of sources of financing; subsidies remain the most suitable instruments in many cases and for many projects;

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Recommends for the new programming period that all levels of governance work towards a system of single audit; reiterates that there is a need for further steps in the area of simplification, particularly by introducing greater proportionality in inspections;

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Is of the opinion that GDP might not be the only legitimate indicator for ensuring a fair distribution of money that takes account of specific territorial needs; is of the opinion, for example, that many regions in Europe are facing high rates of unemployment and a situation of demographic change, as well as shrinking population numbers in rural areas;

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Takes the view that the cohesion policy should continue to cover all Member States and all of Europe’s regions, and that simplifying arrangements for access to EU funds is an essential prerequisite for the future success of the cohesion policy;

2016/09/19
Committee: REGI

2016/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes the divergences in aims and focus between the Framework Programme and the ESI Funds; takes the view, however, that efforts must be made to maximise synergies at programme level; calls accordingly for cohesion policy no longer to fall within the scope of state aid rules, as is the case for Horizon 2020 with regard to research and innovation;

2017/02/14
Committee: REGI

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas compliance with basic labour rights is essential for professional athletes;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the integrity of sport is of paramount importance; in order to promote its credibility and its attractiveness;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Silvia COSTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas sport has a specific nature which is based on voluntary structures and is a prerequisite of its educational and societal functions;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to develop the pledge board and explore the possibility to create a code of conduct in the areas of good governance in sport;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the European Commission to continue to support anti- doping projects through the Erasmus+ programme, while assessing its impact and ensuring that it usefully complements existing funding schemes within anti- doping;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to encourage and facilitate the negotiation of agreements between countries permitting duly authorized doping control teams from other countries to conduct testing, respecting athletes' fundamental rights and in accordance with the International Convention against doping in sport;

2016/10/19
Committee: CULT

2016/2143(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Stefano MAULLU, Hannu TAKKULA, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Marc TARABELLA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Ivo BELET

2016/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Annual Report of the Commission and recalls that the goal of enhancing regional cohesion should always be accompanied by the protection of the EU’s financial interests; notes that the fight against fraudulent or non-fraudulent irregularities also increases the general effectiveness of EU fund management; points out that not all irregularities are fraudulent and that a clear distinction must be drawn between errors and fraud;

2016/11/17
Committee: REGI

2016/2097(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Recommends~~Emphasises that non-fraudulent irregularities are often linked to the complexity of procedures and requirements; recommends, therefore, that steps be taken to improve the uptake of simplification measures for 2014-2020 and with a view to the post-2020 regulatory framework for ESI Funds as a tool to reduce the risk of irregularities caused by errors;

2016/11/17
Committee: REGI

2016/2097(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that fraud and corruption are becoming increasingly transnational in nature; emphasises, in that context, the advisability of setting up an independent European public prosecutor's office to protect the EU's financial interests, whilst taking steps to ensure that the relationship between that office and the existing EU bodies is clarified and that their respective powers are clearly demarcated, in order to rule any unnecessary overlap.

2016/11/17
Committee: REGI

2016/2072(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, cultural diversity, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators, and to a fair sharing of value, without undermining new ways of creating;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to propose, in view of the ongoing review of the EU Enforcement framework, effective enforcement measures for the digital environment;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns ~~that need to be addressed~~for consumers, jeopardise the financing of cultural creation and the maintaining of a strong European cultural diversity and are often linked to organised crime; underlines therefore the need to reinforce the fight against these illegal activities, especially when they are on a commercial scale, and to find appropriate solutions with the relevant stakeholders;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in ~~the fight against~~combating online counterfeiting and to develop tools enabling consumers to find and easily access legal online counte~~rfeiting~~nt;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission to propose effective measures to fight online piracy, in particular to ensure that online services which host content apply effective means in order to remove unlicensed content from their services and, once removed, to take action to prevent this content from reappearing;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Underlines that digital and online platforms offer great opportunities for the CCS to develop new business models, attract new audiences and expand their markets both within the European Union and in the third countries;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls for the European External Action Service to harness the potential of cultural diplomacy by promoting and improving the competitive strength of European CCS;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underlines the need to include media literacy in school curricula and institutions of cultural education, and supports competitions and initiatives at national, regional or local level, aimed at empowering citizens to develop critical thinking and understanding by stimulating their creativity and capacity of expression;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. In this regard highlights the importance of education inclined towards combining the development of key entrepreneurial skills with critical understanding of the cultural and creative industries;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses that digitisation and media convergence create new opportunities for access, distribution and promotion of European works and emphasises the importance of guaranteeing funding for the digitisation, preservation and online availability of European cultural heritage;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2072(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to take the required actions by introducing mixed methods of funding, such as public and private partnerships;

2016/09/09
Committee: ITRE CULT

2016/2064(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Acknowledg~~Welcomes the initial results of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to mobilise private investments, particularly for SMEs; recalls that the EFSI must also contribute to economic, social and territorial cohesion and that efforts are needed to enhance synergies and complementarity between the EFSI and European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs); underlines the importance of ensuring additionality of the EFSI with respect to other EIB initiatives and EU- funded programs;

2016/09/16
Committee: REGI

2016/2064(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that it is essential to ~~ensur~~promote a geographical balance of EFSI projects, taking account of the different economic development of the regions and the territorial diversity of the Member States, while ensuring that the eligibility of projects is protected from any interference which could lead to appropriations being spread too thinly; highlights the importance of also developing cross-border projects that could deliver a high European added value;

2016/09/16
Committee: REGI

2016/2045(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was set up in 2002 in reaction to that summer’s serious flooding in Central Europe, to respond to serious natural disasters and to demonstrate solidarity with the European regions affected; whereas it funds only emergency operations carried out by governments following natural disasters, in spite of the Commission’s 2005 proposal to expand its scope to include industrial and technological disasters, public health emergencies and acts of terrorism;

2016/07/20
Committee: REGI

2016/2045(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that the changing security context, marked by an increase in terrorist attacks in Europe, casts new light on the need for and relevance of certain proposals developed by the Commission and the European Parliament in 2005 and 2006, which aim to enlarge the scope of the EUSF so that it can respond to events that have particularly serious consequences for the people affected and that require European solidarity, such as acts of terrorism;

2016/07/20
Committee: REGI

2016/2036(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the EU and the Member States to support international efforts to set up a rapid reaction mechanism for the protection of cultural heritage sites, which have become ideological targets in armed conflicts;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2016/2036(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Notes the important and valuable role that sport can play in supporting international goals; stresses, in this connection, sport's potential as a means of reconciliation, of bringing communities together, in particular as part of a post- conflict approach, as well as the importance of using sport as a vehicle for social inclusion;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2016/2032(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Points out that the cultural and creative sectors are key sectors for the EU economy and that they consist mostly of SMEs, but that those SMEs have very specific characteristics and encounter more problems in securing funding;

2016/04/28
Committee: CULT

2016/2032(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Alain LAMASSOURE, Alain CADEC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and Member States to provide a clear and stable legal environment, and to guarantee coordination, consistency and synergies between instruments and programmes which support SMEs, such as the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI funds), Horizon 2020 and COSME; welcomes the Juncker investment plan, and draws SMEs' attention to the opportunities offered by the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI); stresses the need to improve information for SMEs on the conditions of eligibility and the allocation of European funding;

2016/04/22
Committee: REGI

2016/2032(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes differences in financing conditions for SMEs between Member States and between regions, notably the quantity and cost of available funding, which are influenced by ~~SME-~~factors specific ~~and country-specific factors~~to SMEs and to the regions in which they are established;

2016/04/06
Committee: ECON

2016/2032(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Considers it to be crucial, against the background of cuts in public funding for the cultural sectors, that the EU and its Member States broaden the range of financing instruments available to micro- enterprises and SMEs in the cultural and creative sector with new and innovative financing schemes such as microcredit, repayable contributions, crowdfunding, risk capital finance and venture capital.

2016/04/28
Committee: CULT

2016/2032(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Alain LAMASSOURE, Alain CADEC

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that, setting aside the issue of their size, each SME is different and there are many factors which determine their needs and the ease with which they can obtain funding, such as where they are based (for instance, metropolitan, urban, rural, backward, remote or outermost regions), the business sector in which they operate and the stage they have reached in their development; calls on the Commission, Member States and regional authorities to take these factors into account in coming up with tailor-made financing arrangements for various types of SME (for instance, micro-enterprises, innovative start-ups and also family, craft or industrial enterprises) which in particular exploit the scope for combining subsidies and funding instruments.

2016/04/22
Committee: REGI

2016/2032(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages SMEs to consider the whole EU as their home market and to use the potential of the single market for their financing needs; welcomes the Commission’s initiatives supporting SMEs and start-ups in an upgraded Single Market; underlines, in this context, the importance of the implementation of the Small Business Act; calls on the Commission for a follow-up to the Small Business Act; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure coordination, consistency and synergies between European instruments and programmes for SMEs, such as the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI funds), Horizon 2020 and COSME;

2016/04/06
Committee: ECON

2016/2032(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Alain LAMASSOURE, Alain CADEC

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Notes that during this period of fiscal restraint, cohesion policy is an important source of support for SMEs, but stresses that the complexity of the rules and the red tape involved in obtaining ESI funding affect SMEs in particular, resulting in disproportionate administrative costs; urges the Member States and the Commission to make significant progress towards further simplification so as to make funding more attractive for SMEs and calls on the Commission to clarify the link between the rules on ESI Funds and the rules on state aid;

2016/04/06
Committee: ECON

2016/2030(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that the strategy of anti- EU propaganda and disinformation by third countries may take various forms and involve, in particular, traditional media, social networks, school programmes and political parties, both within the European Union and outside it;

2016/05/03
Committee: CULT

2016/2030(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses that while not all criticism of the European Union or its policies constitutes necessarily propaganda or disinformation, particularly when in the context of political expression, instances of manipulation or support linked to third countries and intended to fuel or exacerbate this criticism are likely to cause messages conveyed in this way to be viewed in a critical vein;

2016/05/03
Committee: CULT

2016/2030(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that while a stand has to be taken against anti-EU propaganda and disinformation by third countries, this should not cast into doubt the importance of maintaining constructive relations with third countries and making them strategic partners in tackling common challenges;

2016/05/03
Committee: CULT

2016/2030(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that media education provides knowledge and skills, and empowers citizens to exercise their right to freedom of expression, to critically analyse media content and to react to disinformation; highlights, therefore, the need to raise awareness, through media literacy actions at all levels, of ~~attempts at~~the risks of disinformation;

2016/05/03
Committee: CULT

2016/2030(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the importance of communicating EU policies effectively, internally as well as externally, and of ensuring access to information in official local languages; welcomes, in this context, the launch of the EEAS website in Russian; underlines that particular attention should be paid to new technologies – including digital broadcasting, mobile communications, online media and social networks – which facilitate the dissemination of information about, and increased awareness of, the European values enshrined in the Treaties.; stresses that the new technologies facilitate too the large scale dissemination of deliberately biased or wrong information about the EU and its policies, and that a strategy and resources to counter these messages on the Internet need to be implemented;

2016/05/03
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that an increasing number of citizens use ICT tools and new media and technologies to engage and participate in political life at both national and EU level ~~and that it i~~; considers therefore as crucial t~~o increase digital inclusion and literacy, thus eradicating the existing digital divide~~he eradication of the existing digital divide and asks to develop actions and policies to increase digital inclusion and literacy;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that an increasing number of citizens, especially among the young generation, use ICT tools and new media and technologies to engage and participate in political life at both national and EU level and that it is therefore crucial to increase digital inclusion and literacy, thus eradicating the existing digital divide;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Recalls that involving the citizens further in the processes around the European policies has the potential to renew their support in the European Union while reducing the so-called "democratic deficit" of the European Union; underlines therefore the potential of e-democracy tools to this end, while acknowledging its inherent limitations due to its requirements, both on a technical level (high level of internet penetration, widespread Wi-Fi connectivity, high speed internet connection, etc.) and practical level (media and digital literacy and skills, languages available, etc.);

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that, in order to stimulate a proper ~~and critical~~ knowledge of the EU and its history, values and fundamental rights, its functioning and structured decision-making processes, ICT tools and new media and technologies are crucial and will increasingly play a fundamental role;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes that while the ICT tools offer a wide access to different sources of information, it also facilitate the spread of low-quality content which can be hard to distinguish from serious reliable sources and be misleading for citizens; underlines therefore the crucial need for a proper media literacy training toward the citizens, especially the younger ones;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Considers it crucial that the EU ~~should strategically launch e-democracy tools able to provide decentral~~proposes actions and policies in support of e-democracy to provide citizens with skills to recognised sources of independent information ~~and~~, to support innovative models of learning, and to stimulate citizens’ active participation and political engagement through participatory and direct democracy mechanisms able to reinforce and complement, where possible, representative democracy;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the major security challenges posed by the e-democracy tools, especially when they are related to electronic votes, as unsecure tools would undermine the validity of the processes carried out with these tools as well as the trust of the citizens in them, and as offering heavily secured tools would create disproportionate costs while not guaranteeing its absolute safety; calls therefore to secure e-democracy tools as much as it is reasonable and proportionate to do so, and to exclude as much as possible the most critical democratic processes from electronic votes;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Warns that while e-democracy tools could be useful for the involvement of citizens in the European processes, they do not replace traditional democratic tools and their results should not be regarded as the representative expression of the citizens' opinion as a whole;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to develop and implement specific pilot projects, as provided for in the Digital Agenda, to promote and reinforce responsible and active European citizenship schemes and the sense of belonging to the European Union, democracy being a social experience which needs to be experienced and learned about.;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Considers that e-democracy can be a tool to attract more people, especially young, to participate in democratic processes, decrease the democratic deficit and stop the decline of democratic participation in EU;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Considers that e-democracy can increase transparency of decision making process in representative democracy and can have a positive impact on trust of citizens in their elected representatives;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Acknowledges the importance of decreasing the digital divide in a way that as many people as possible have access to internet and can participate in processes of e-democracy;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6d. Notes that e-democracy has the potential to increase the sense of ownership of EU among the citizens, which is especially important in the current Eurosceptic climate;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)

6e. Believes that despite mostly positive aspects of e-democracy some caution is needed; notes the possibility of abuse of private data in the online environment, possibility of electoral fraud in online elections and other sorts of democratic online participation;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)

6f. Calls for caution as the online political debates often produce excessively polarised opinions and can be prone to hate speech, whereas moderate voices are often overlooked;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)

6g. Acknowledges that e-democracy can only have a positive impact when citizens are well-informed, have the skills to be critical towards wrong and biased information and are able to identify attempts of propaganda;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)

6h. Calls on EU and the Member States to increase the digital and media literacy of citizens, especially young ones, so that they will be able to make informed decisions and contribute positively to democratic processes;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/2008(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)

6i. Notes the enormous amount of information that can be found on internet today and stresses that citizens' capacity for critical thinking should be strengthened so that they would be able to better discern between reliable and non- reliable sources of information;

2016/06/09
Committee: CULT

2016/0287(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) Given Internet connectivity needs within the Union and the urgency of promoting access networks that can deliver, throughout the EU, an Internet experience of high quality based on very high-speed broadband services, financial assistance should seek to attain a geographically balanced distribution, paying particular attention to rural regions and taking into account the disparities within regions.

2017/02/14
Committee: REGI

2016/0287(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Christian EHLER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)

(3 a) Despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before , on services such as user- uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the creative sectors have not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption. This has generated a so- called 'value gap', where platform services retain the value of cultural and creative works, which is diverted from creators. The transfer of value has created an inefficient and unfair market, and threatens the long-term health of the EU's cultural and creative sectors and the success of the Digital Single Market. Thus, liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers, and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators.

2017/03/16
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21 a (new)

(21 a) Where user-generated content involves proportionate use of a quotation or of an extract of a protected work or other subject-matter for a legitimate purpose, such use should be protected by the exception provided in this Directive. This exception should only be applied in certain special cases which do not conflict with normal exploitation of the work or other subject-matter concerned and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the rightholder. For the purpose of assessing such prejudice, the degree of originality of the user-generated content concerned, the length/extent of the quotation or extract used or the degree of economic harm should be examined, where relevant, while not precluding the legitimate enjoyment of the exception. This exception should be without prejudice to the moral rights of the authors of the work or other subject- matter concerned.

2017/03/16
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 30

(30) To facilitate the licensing of rights in audiovisual works to, relevant rights are consolidated with the producer by law or by contract. In order to promote cultural diversity and the availability of works on video-on-demand platforms, this Directive requires Member States to set up a ~~negoti~~facilitation mechanism allowing relevant parties willing to conclude an agreement for the licensing of audiovisual works to video-on-demand platforms to rely on the assistance of an impartial body. The body should meet with the relevant parties and ~~help with~~facilitate the negotiations by providing professional and external advice. Against that background, Member States should decide on the conditions of the functioning of the ~~negoti~~facilitation mechanism, including the timing and duration of the assistance to negotiations and the bearing of the costs. Member States should ensure that administrative and financial burdens remain proportionate to guarantee the efficiency of the ~~negoti~~facilitation forum.

2017/03/16
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Jeroen LENAERS, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jeroen LENAERS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD

Proposal for a directive
Recital 37

(37) Over the last years, the functioning of the online content marketplace has gained in complexity. Online services providing access to copyright protected content uploaded by their users without the involvement of right holders have flourished and have become main sources of access to content online. Thereby, the online services often make profits from content that they do not create, which are not always shared fairly with the concerned creators. This affects rightholders' possibilities to determine whether, and under which conditions, their work and other subject-matter are used as well as their possibilities to get an appropriate remuneration for it.

2017/03/16
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 42 a (new)

(42a) Member States should guarantee the right for authors and performers to get a fair, proportional and unwaivable right to remuneration for the making available, and the relevant reproduction acts, of their work on on-demand services. Such a right to fair remuneration should be administered according to national practices or legal requirements, without prejudice to the existing mechanisms, such as voluntary collective management agreements or extended collective licences.

2017/03/29
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1

Member States shall ensure that where relevant parties wishing to conclude an agreement for the purpose of making available audiovisual works on video-on- demand platforms face difficulties relating to the licensing of rights, they may rely on the ~~assistance~~facilitation of an impartial body with relevant experience. That body shall provide assistance with negotiation ~~and help reach~~with a view to the conclusion of mutually acceptable agreements.

2017/03/29
Committee: CULT

2016/0280(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 a (new)

Article 15a Unwaivable right to fair remuneration for authors and performers 1. Member States shall ensure that when authors and performers transfer or assign their right of making available to the public for on-demand services, they retain the right to obtain additional fair remuneration for the direct exploitation of their work on these services, unless such remuneration is already guaranteed under their contract with the party to which they transferred or assigned their right. 2. The right to obtain fair remuneration guaranteed under paragraph 1 cannot be waived.

2017/03/29
Committee: CULT

2016/0279(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Marek PLURA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5

(5) In order to improve the availability of accessible format copies and to prevent the illegal dissemination of works and other subject-matter, Member States shall facilitate the agreement of best practice guidelines between representative groups of authorised entities which engage in the production, distribution or making available of accessible format copies ~~should comply with certain obligations.~~, users and rightholders;

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6

(6) This Directive should therefore provide for mandatory exceptions to the rights that are harmonised by Union law and are relevant for the uses and works covered by the Marrakesh Treaty. These include in particular the rights of reproduction, communication to the public, making available, distribution and lending, as provided for in Directive 2001/29/EC, Directive 2006/115/EC, and Directive 2009/24/EC, as well as the corresponding rights in Directive 96/9/EC. As the scope of exceptions and limitations required by the Marrakesh Treaty also includes works in audio form, like audiobooks, it is necessary that these exceptions also apply to related rights. The exercise of the exceptions provided for by this Directive is without prejudice to exceptions for persons with disabilities provided for by the Member States on the basis of point (b) of Article 5(3).

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) ~~In view of~~Member States and those involved in the sector have already developed solutions and arrangements at national level that take into account the specific nature of the exception, its targeted scope and the need for legal certainty for its beneficiaries,. Member States should ~~not~~therefore continue to be allowed to impose reasonable and limited additional requirements for the application of the exception, s~~uch as compensation schemes or the prior verification of the commercial availability of accessible format copies~~trictly in so far as these are authorised by the Marrakesh Treaty, as is the case with compensation schemes, in order to be in a position to respond to possible future developments and their impact on the market.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)

(11a) Member States should promote dialogue between stakeholders in the sector affected by the above exception so as to encourage constructive cooperation with a view to achieving the aims of the exception and bringing about the best possible complementary relationship between solutions existing on the market, including commercial solutions, and other initiatives seeking to make works more accessible.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4

(4) ‘authorised entity’ means an organisation authorised or recognised by the Member State in which it is established and providing education, instructional training, adaptive reading or information access to beneficiary persons on a non-profit basis, as its main activity or as one of its main activities or public- interest missions.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Member States may establish a compensation arrangement for acts authorised by paragraph 1.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Marek PLURA

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Member States shall facilitate dialogue between stakeholders in the sector on ways of making best of use of offerings already available on the market as a basis for producing formats accessible to beneficiary persons.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0278(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)

By [date], Member States shall provide the Commission, on the basis of the information at their disposal, with a list of authorised entities established in their territories. Member States shall notify any changes to that list to the Commission without undue delay. The Commission shall publish that information and keep it up to date.

2017/01/30
Committee: CULT

2016/0276(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) In order to reinforce the take-up of the EFSI in less-developed and transition regions, the scope of the general objectives eligible for EFSI support should be enlarged, while ensuring that the eligibility of projects is protected from all geographic constraints and from any interference that could lead to appropriations being spread too thinly.

2017/01/31
Committee: REGI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1

(1) The last substantive amendment to Directive 89/552/EEC of the Council27 , later codified by Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council28 , was made in 2007 with the adoption of Directive 2007/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council29 . Since then, the market of audiovisual media services has evolved significantly and rapidly. Technical developments allow for new types of services and user experiences. The viewing habits, particularly of younger generations, have changed significantly. While the main TV screen remains an important device to share audiovisual experiences, many viewers have moved to other, portable devices to watch audiovisual content. Traditional TV content accounts still for a major share of the average daily viewing time. However, new types of content, such as short videos or user-generated content, gain increasing importance and new players, including providers of video-on- demand services, social networks and video-sharing platforms, are now well- established. _________________ 27 Directive 89/552/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 1989 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 298, 17.10.1989, p. 23). 28 Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1). 29 Directive 2007/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2007 amending Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (OJ L 332, 18.12.2007, p. 27).

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3

(3) Directive 2010/13/EU should remain applicable only to those services the principal purpose of which is the provision of programmes in order to inform, entertain or educate. The principal purpose requirement should be also considered to be met if the service has audiovisual content and form which is dissociable from the main activity of the service provider, such as stand-alone parts of online newspapers featuring audiovisual programmes or user-generated videos where those parts can be considered dissociable from their main activity. ~~Social media services are not included, except if they provide a service that falls under~~In so far as social networks constitute a major source of information for consumers and depend increasingly on audiovisual content generated or made available by their users, such networks should be included in the scope of this directive when they fall within the definition of a video-sharing platform. A service should be considered to be merely an indissociable complement to the main activity as a result of the links between the audiovisual offer and the main activity. As such, channels or any other audiovisual services under the editorial responsibility of a provider may constitute audiovisual media services in themselves, even if they are offered in the framework of a video- sharing platform which is characterised by the absence of editorial responsibility. In such cases, it will be up to the providers with editorial responsibility to abide by the provisions of this Directive.

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)

(9a) The right of persons with an impairment and of the elderly to participate and be integrated in the social and cultural life of the Union is linked to the provision of accessible audiovisual media services. Therefore, Member States should take appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure that media service providers under their jurisdiction actively seek to make content accessible to those with a visual or hearing disability by 2027. The accessibility requirements should be met through a progressive and continuous process, while taking into account the practical and unavoidable constraints that could prevent complete accessibility, such as programmes or events broadcast in real time. Appropriate accessibility measures could be developed through self-regulation and co-regulation

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

(13) The market for TV broadcasting has evolved and that there is a need for more flexibility with regard to audiovisual commercial communications, in particular for quantitative rules for linear audiovisual media services, product placement and sponsorship. The emergence of new services, including without advertising, has led to a greater choice for viewers, who can easily switch to alternative offers.deleted

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1

(1) The last substantive amendment to Directive 89/552/EEC of the Council27, later codified by Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council28, was made in 2007 with the adoption of Directive 2007/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council29. Since then, the market of audiovisual media services has evolved significantly and rapidly. Technical developments allow for new types of services and user experiences. The viewing habits, particularly of younger generations, have changed significantly. While the main TV screen remains an important device to share audiovisual experiences, many viewers have moved to other, portable devices to watch audiovisual content. Traditional TV content accounts still for a major share of the average daily viewing time. However, new types of content, such as short videos or user-generated content, gain increasing importance and new players, including providers of video-on- demand services, social networks and video-sharing platforms, are now well- established. _________________ 27 Directive 89/552/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 1989 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 298, 17.10.1989, p. 23). 28 Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1). 29 Directive 2007/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2007 amending Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (OJ L 332, 18.12.2007, p. 27).

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) AsEven though the increase in the number of new services has led to a greater choice for viewers, ~~broadcasters are given greater flexibility with regard to the insertion of~~it remains necessary to keep protecting the integrity of programmes and consumers from disproportionately frequent advertising and teleshopping spots w. There ~~this does not unduly impair the integrity of programme. Yet~~fore, in order to safeguard the specific character of the European television landscape, interruptions for cinematographic works and films made for television as well as for some categories of programmes that still need specific protection should remain limited.

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 26

(26) There are new challenges, in particular in connection with video-sharing platforms and social networks, on which users - particularly minors - increasingly consume audiovisual content. In this context, harmful content and hate speech stored on video-sharing platforms have increasingly given rise to concern. It is necessary, in order to protect minors from harmful content and all citizens from content containing incitement to violence or, hatred or terrorism, to set out proportionate rules on those matters.

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 31

(31) When taking the appropriate measures to protect minors from harmful content and to protect all citizens from content containing incitement to terrorism, violence or hatred in accordance with this Directive, the applicable fundamental rights, as laid down in the Charter on Fundamental Rights of the European Union, should be carefully balanced. That concerns in particular, as the case may be, the right to respect for private and family life and the protection of personal data, the freedom of expression and information, the freedom to conduct a business, the prohibition of discrimination and the right of the child.

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point aa – point i

(i) the service consists of the storage of or provision of access to a large amount of programmes or user- generated videos, for which the video- sharing platform provider does not have editorial responsibility;

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21

(21) Providers of on-demand audiovisual media services should promote the production and distribution of European works by ensuring that their catalogues contain a minimum share of European works and that those are given enough prominence. The quality of the European works acquired should be equivalent to the rest of the catalogue, in order to guarantee a fair representation of the European production, cultural diversity and know-how. The prominence obligation shall allow users of the service to easily discover and find European works through, for example, a dedicated presence on the homepage, targeted recommendations or dedicated categories.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 38

(38) This Directive is without prejudice to the ability of Member States to ~~impose obligations to ensure~~take measures to ensure non-discriminatory discoverability and access~~ibility of~~ to content of general interest under defined general interest objectives such as media pluralism, freedom of speech and cultural diversity. Such obligations should only be imposed where they are ~~necessary to~~proportionate and meet general interest objectives clearly defined by Member States in conformity with Union law. Such obligations should, moreover, only be imposed when there is a threat to the diversity of opinion. In this respect, Member States should in particular examine the need for regulatory intervention against the results of the outcome of market forces. Where Member States decide to i~~mpos~~ntroduce discoverability rules, they should only ~~impos~~take proportionate ~~obligations on~~measures with regard to undertakings, in the interest of legitimate public policy considerations.

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6

"Member States shall ensure by appropriate means that audiovisual media services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction do not contain any incitement to terrorism, violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.";

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

(28) An important share of the content stored on video-sharing platforms or social medias is not under the editorial responsibility of the video-sharing platform provider. However, those providers typically determine the organisation of the content, namely programmes or user- generated videos, including by automatic means or algorithms. Therefore, those providers should be required to take appropriate measures to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, mental or moral development and protect all citizens from incitement to terrorism or from incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6

Member States shall ensure by appropriate means that audiovisual media services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction do not contain any incitement to the commission of terrorist acts or any other form of violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.;

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6

2016/12/06
Committee: LIBE

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 30

(30) It is appropriate to involve the video-sharing platform providers as much as possible when implementing the appropriate measures to be taken pursuant to this Directive. Co-regulation should therefore be encouraged. With a view to ensuring a clear and consistent approach in this regard across the Union, Member States should not be entitled to require video-sharing platform providers to take stricter measures to protect minors from harmful content and all citizens from content containing incitement to violence or hatred than the ones provided for in this Directive, under the monitoring of the competent national regulatory bodies. However, it should remain possible for Member States to ~~take such~~require stricter measures where that content is illegal, provided that they comply with Articles 14 and 15 of Directive 2000/31/EC, and to take measures with respect to content on websites containing or disseminating child pornography, as required by and allowed under Article 25 of Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and the Council35. It should also remain possible for video-sharing platform providers to take stricter measures on a voluntary basis in accordance with Union law and communicative freedoms. Video-sharing platforms should also properly inform users having generated the content affected by such measures on the reasons justifying those measures and provide effective ways to contest them. __________________ 35 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1).

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 31

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 14

Directive 2010/13/UE
Article 12 – subparagraph 2

The most harmful content, such as incitement to terrorism, gratuitous violence and pornography, shall be subject to the strictest measures, such as encryption and effective parental controls;

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 13 – paragraph 1

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 20 – paragraph 2

16. In Article 20, paragraph 2, the first sentence is replaced by the following: "The transmission of films made for television (excluding series, serials and documentaries), cinematographic works and news programmes may be interrupted by television advertising and/or teleshopping once for each scheduled period of at least 20 minutes.";deleted

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point a

a) announcements made by the broadcaster in connection with its own programmes and ancillary products directly derived from those programmes ~~or with programmes from other entities belonging to the same media group~~;

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 a – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) protect all citizens from content containing any incitement to the commission of terrorist acts or any other form of violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28a – paragraph 1 – point b

b) protect all citizens from content containing incitement to terrorism, violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

2016/12/02
Committee: ENVI

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6

Member States shall ensure by appropriate means that audiovisual media services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction do not contain (a) any incitement to undermine human dignity or any incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation; (b) any incitement to commit or to seek to justify terrorist acts;

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 19

(a) defining and applying in the terms and conditions of the video-sharing platform providers the concepts of incitement to the commission of terrorist acts or any other form of violence or hatred as referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 and of content which may impair the physical, mental or moral development of minors, in accordance with Articles 6 and 12 respectively;

2016/11/11
Committee: JURI

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6

Member States shall ensure by appropriate means that audiovisual media services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction do not contain any incitement to the commission of terrorist acts or incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.;

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) Sponsorship represents an important means of financing audiovisual media services, video-sharing platforms, user-generated videos or programmes while promoting a legal or physical person's name, trade mark, image, activities or products. As such, for sponsorship to constitute a valuable form of advertising technique for advertisers, users generating videos, video-sharing platforms providers and audiovisual media service providers, sponsorship announcements can contain promotional references to the goods or services of the sponsor, while not directly encouraging the purchase of the goods and services. Sponsorship announcements should continue to clearly inform the viewers of the existence of a sponsorship agreement. The content of sponsored programmes should not be influenced in such a way as to affect the audiovisual media service provider's editorial independence.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) AsEven though the increase in the number of new services has led to a greater choice for viewers, ~~broadcasters are given greater flexibility with regard to the insertion of~~it remains necessary to keep protecting the integrity of programmes and consumers from disproportionally frequent advertising and teleshopping spots w. There ~~this does not unduly impair the integrity of programme. Yet~~fore, in order to safeguard the specific character of the European television landscape, interruptions for cinematographic works and films made for television as well as for some categories of programmes that still need specific protection should remain limited and not be subject to further flexibility.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)

(18a) Isolated advertising and teleshopping spots significantly disrupt television viewing, disproportionally affect the integrity of programmes and raise legitimate concerns with regard to their impact on consumers, particularly children, as they give undue prominence to a particular product or service. This Directive should therefore not allow isolated advertising and teleshopping spots, without any exception.

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 20 – paragraph 2

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 20 – paragraph 2

The transmission of films made for television (excluding series, serials and documentaries), cinematographic works and news programmes may be interrupted by television advertising and/or teleshopping once for each scheduled period of at least 230 minutes.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 23 – paragraph 1

1. The ~~daily~~ proportion of television advertising spots and teleshopping spots within ~~the period between 7:00 and 23:00~~a given clock hour shall not exceed 20 %.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 25

(25) In order to ensure that obligations on promotion of European works do not undermine market development and to allow for the entry of new players in the market, companies with no significant presence on the market should not be subject to such requirements. This is in particular the case for companies with a low turnover and low audiences as regards to the targeted market and small and micro enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC33 . It could also be inappropriate to impose such requirements in cases where – given the nature or theme of the on-demand audiovisual media services or the competition with equivalent European works – they would be impracticable or unjustified. __________________ 33 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Frédérique RIES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 23 – paragraph 2 – point a

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 28

(28) An important share of the content stored on video-sharing or social media platforms is not under the editorial responsibility of the ~~video-sharing~~ platform provider. However, those providers typically determine the organisation of the content, namely programmes or user-generated videos, including by automatic means or algorithms. Therefore, those providers should be required to take appropriate measures to protect minors from content that may impair their physical, mental or moral development and protect all citizens from incitement to terrorism or from incitement to violence or hatred directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to sex, race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 a – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(ba) protect all citizens from content containing incitement to commit or seeking to justify terrorist acts;

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 a – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)

(bb) protect all citizens from content which could impair their physical, mental or moral development;

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Frédérique RIES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

TFor example, those measures ~~shall~~may consist of, as appropriate:

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 31

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 a – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Member States may impose penalties on video-sharing platforms which do not meet these requirements.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28b – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 b – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission a list of the video- sharing platform providers established or deemed to be established on their territory and the criteria, set out in Article 3(1) ~~of Directive 2000/31/EC~~ and in paragraph 1, on which their jurisdiction is based. They shall update the list regularly. The Commission shall ensure that the competent independent regulatory authorities have access to this information.

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28b – paragraph 2 a (new)

2016/10/19
Committee: IMCO

2016/0151(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 38

(38) This Directive is without prejudice to the ability of Member States to impose obligations to ensure non-discriminatory discoverability and access~~ibility of~~ to content of general interest under defined general interest objectives such as media pluralism, freedom of speech and cultural diversity. Such obligations should only be imposed where they are necessary to meet general interest objectives clearly defined by Member States in conformity with Union law. Such obligations should moreover only be imposed when there is a threat to the diversity of opinion. In this respect, Member States should in particular examine the need for regulatory intervention against the results of the outcome of market forces. Where Member States decide to impose discoverability rules, they should only impose proportionate obligations on undertakings, in the interest of legitimate public policy considerations.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – introductory part

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 12

(14) Article 12 is ~~replaced by the following and moved to Chapter III:~~deleted.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 20 – paragraph 2

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 23 – paragraph 1

1. The ~~daily~~ proportion of television advertising spots and teleshopping spots within ~~the period between 7:00 and 23:00~~a given clock hour shall not exceed 20 %.

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Frédérique RIES

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 b – paragraph 1– subparagraph 3

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Frédérique RIES, Andrea BOCSKOR

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 28 b – paragraph 2 a (new)

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 30 – paragraph 5

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Louis MICHEL

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21

Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 30 – paragraph 6

2016/10/27
Committee: CULT

2016/0151(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Louis MICHEL, Frédérique RIES

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission to modify the automatic points system in order to allow a genuine level playing field, taking into account ~~the existing national support schemes for the audiovisual industry~~, in a balanced way, all of the criteria mentioned in the ‘Creative Europe’ programme (transnational character, development of transnational cooperation, economies of scale, critical mass, leverage effect, taking into account of production capacities);

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses that, in an international and increasingly competitive film landscape, the European audiovisual sector continues to require the need to uphold and foster support measures to safeguard its diversity and independence, as well as to strengthen its competitiveness;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Underlines the need for the European Commission to put forward a data-driven European audience engagement project, which would aim at exploring and strengthening the capacity of Europe's audio-visual and film sector to collect, analyse and predict data concerning audience behaviours with a view to increase demand for non-national European films;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Asks the Commission to maintain its support to cinemas networks, such as Europa Cinemas, that promote European film worldwide by financially and operationally helping cinemas which exhibit a significant number of European films and underlines the crucial role that cinemas have in raising audience awareness and maintaining the social element of the cinema experience;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Calls on the Commission to raise the funding ceiling for European video games, in order to take account of their high and growing production costs; stresses, in addition, the need to review the eligibility criterion relating to the exclusively narrative nature of a video game in order to widen the range to include projects with transnational distribution potential (sports games, sandbox games, etc.) and to incorporate ‘gameplay’ into the evaluation criteria for projects, to reflect the centrality of this aspect in the success of a product;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Asks the Commission to introduce possible measures to limit the disproportion of the number of beneficiaries and the number of applicants include, among others, Culture Sub-programme budget increase, more adequate representation of all cultural and creative sectors and more support to smaller scale projects;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32a. Asks the Commission to make the tools and documentation produced by various Creative Europe Desks available online as models of good practices to be followed;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)

32b. Underlines a need for better collaboration between CEDs in order to become more effective advisory tools for their national applicants;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 c (new)

32c. Calls on the Commission and EACEA to improve the communication and exchange of the information with CEDs, in particular on the financial instruments and on new cross sectorial initiatives;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33a. Calls on the Commissions to increase the transparency of the evaluations and selection process for learning purposes by providing more detailed information on selected and rejected projects;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2328(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Andrea BOCSKOR, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Urges the Commission to take a proactive approach to the admission of new countries to the programme, with special status for European Neighbourhood South and East countries;

2016/11/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas th~~is region constitutes an interconnected macro-region with~~e Alpine region possesses unique geographical and natural features, whereas it constitutes an interconnected macro-region and transit region which has substantial potential for development, but whereas specific responses are needed to challenges arising from environmental, demographic, transport, tourism and energy-related issues, seasonality and multi-activity, and whereas coordinated territorial planning could produce better results and added value for territorial cohesion of Alpine and peri-Alpine areas;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Marc JOULAUD, Michel DANTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the Alpine Region is Europe’s ‘water tower’ and the Alps supply enough water to provide up to 90% of the needs of the foothill areas in summer; whereas water is important for hydroelectricity, the irrigation of agricultural land, the sustainable management of forests, preserving biodiversity and the landscape and providing drinking water; whereas it is essential to preserve the quality of waters and the low water levels of rivers in the Alps and to find a fair balance between the interests of local populations and the needs of the environment;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas free movement of persons is a fundamental right and a prerequisite – particularly in border areas – to reaching the goals of economic, social, territorial and environmental cohesion, strong and sustainable competitiveness and equitable access to employment;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the fact that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) offer potentially significant resources and a wide range of tools and options for the Strategy; ~~notes the availability of~~calls for greater synergy, promoting coordination and complementarities with the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) and other funds and instruments relevant to the Strategy pillars, notably Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility, the LIFE programme, and the COSME programme for SMEs, for which the Commission should investigate the possible added value of specific calls focused on the particular challenges of the Alpine region;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Supports strategic planning ~~among~~in both urban and rural areas of the Alpine areasgion, with a view to promoting networking and common targets in a coherent and coordinated policy framework (e.g. with reference to renewable energies, welfare, logistics, and business and social innovation);

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Stresses the importance of increasing the economic potential of strategic sectors – agriculture, forestry, tourism, energy, the bioeconomy, organic products, health and the latest technologies – and giving strong backing to SMEs, which should be linked to research centres;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Emphasises that a macro-regional strategy for the Alps should secure the preservation of forms of traditional and craft-based economic activityies as well as fostering innovation and the development of new initiatives in this field;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Notes that, in the Alps, the same person is often required to carry out different activities over the course of a year, sometimes on a cross-border basis; calls on the Commission, the Member States and local authorities to encourage cooperation between bodies providing initial and in-service professional training; stresses the benefits which an Erasmus+ programme devoted to cross- border apprenticeships could bring;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of improving transport and energy connectivity among the participating countries, including local, regional and cross-border transport and intermodal connections with the hinterland, ~~also~~ in order to boost the development of the region, enhance the quality of life of its inhabitants and attract new residents;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines the importance of connecting transport routes with other parts of Europe and the relevance of interconnections with TEN-T corridors; points out that mountainous terrain is still an obstacle to rapprochement between EU citizens, and that the EU has pledged to increase funding for cross-border transport infrastructure; calls on the participating countries to focus their efforts on implementing projects that are covered by the current TEN-T network;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Notes that the Alpine region was able to benefit from its waterways at a very early stage by developing hydropower facilities; takes the view that it should be possible to use EU funds to foster exchanges of good practice and the modernisation of structures, with a view to responding to the growing demand for energy and the influx of tourists;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Stresses that the integrated management of water resources is one of the keys to the sustainable development of the Alps; points out that natural risks, in particular water-related risks, could have a knock-on effect in the lowlands and built-up areas; stresses, therefore, the need to step up exchanges of best practices and cross-border cooperation, in the context of the Water Management Platform set up under the Alpine Convention, between the national bodies responsible for the management of water and river basins in order to meet the shared challenges stemming from climate change;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Emphasises the difference in treatment that needs to be applied, in view of the limited material and financial resources available, on the one hand to asylum seekers, whose long-term stay in Europe remains uncertain, and on the other hand to refugees enjoying official international protection after their application has been considered by the Member States;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses that asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected by the Member State in which these were filed should no longer be eligible to participate in programmes for the integration of refugees and asylum seekers;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that the refugee crisis the EU is experiencing is long-term in nature; calls therefore on the Member States and the Commission to take this into account during the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework, in the interests of ensuring a constant and consistent policy vis-à-vis refugees and their inclusion; nevertheless underlines that the EU cannot substitute for Member State policy, the effectiveness of which is dependent on the adoption of appropriate measures and funding by the Member States;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the need for the social and cultural inclusion of child refugees and asylum seekers as a means of accelerating the social and cultural integration of the family as a whole;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses the need to raise the awareness of refugees and asylum seekers to their rights on the labour market;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Emphasises the need for effective procedures to enable a smooth transition between the educational facilities available in refugee camps and the official educational structures of the Member States in which child refugees and asylum seekers have filed their applications;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasises that the funding of programmes to promote refugee integration calls for the adoption of new, specific and lasting financial measures, and that this funding should not draw on existing programmes intended specifically for EU citizens, such as Erasmus+ or the ESF;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines an important role of sport as an instrument fostering social and intercultural dialogue and calls on the European Institutions and Member States to implement programmes aimed at social integration of refugees through sport;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of promoting the establishment of positive links between the local population and refugees and asylum seekers, particularly through joint cultural or sporting activities;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Supports the existing initiatives of sport organisations and encourages exchange of best practices between different entities engaged in sport activities aimed at social integration of refugees;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2321(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Welcomes the potential for solidarity within refugees communities, but points out that these communities should integrate fully into the society of the host Member State and not develop independently of it;

2016/03/22
Committee: CULT

2015/2320(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on Member States to focus on facilitating an adequate EU funding mix for SMEs – grants, loans, guarantees, equity, microfinance – in view of the ever- increasing role of financial instruments and synergies between instruments funded by the EU budget through the ERDF and through direct management programmes such as Horizon 2020, the PSCI, COSME and LIFE; stresses that the funding mix, and in particular the link between grants and financial instruments, must take account of the different parameters that determine the nature of SMEs and dictate their needs and conditions of access to financing, in particular, the territory on which they are based, their area of activity and the business's phase in the lifecycle;

2016/04/05
Committee: REGI

2015/2320(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Urges both the Member States and the Commission to make significant progress in further simplification of EU funding by 2017 with regard to application, management and monitoring/control of projects by introducing an EU-wide public procurement procedure, complete e- cohesion, a single audit based on risk, the reduction of data and information requirements and the elimination of gold- plating through extensive regulatory optimisation; calls on the Commission to clarify the link between the rules on ESI Funds and the rules on state aid;

2016/04/05
Committee: REGI

2015/2284(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the evaluations of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) show that the results of the interventions of this fund are influenced by factors such as the level of education and qualifications of the targeted workers, as well as by the capacity of absorption of the relevant labour markets; emphasises that such factors are mostly influenced by long- term measures which can be effectively supported by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds); points to the need to allow for these factors and for the local labour market situation whenever assistance is to be provided under the EGF, while ensuring that the application for a contribution is followed within as short a time as possible by the fund assistance;

2016/01/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2282(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the 23 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the EU, which account for around 99% of all businesses, make a fundamental contribution to economic growth, innovation, social cohesion and job creation, providing over 100 million jobs which generate 2 out of every 3 private sector jobs;

2016/03/03
Committee: REGI

2015/2282(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the SMEs which would be eligible for ESI funds, in that they operate in a competitive environment and have to deal with a wide range of constraints, including cash-flow constraints, are being hit particularly hard by the complexity and instability of the rules and by the red tape involved, in particular the fact that the administrative costs are out of all proportion to the funding allocated, the time taken to process funding applications and the need to advance funds;

2016/03/03
Committee: REGI

2015/2282(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure enhanced coordination and consistency among all EU investment policies targeted at SMEs; stresses, in particular, the need to harmonise management rules and promote synergies between programmes under ESI funds and other EU instruments such as Horizon 2020 or the European Fund for Strategic Investments; welcomes the plan to ease access to ESI funds through the introduction of a ‘seal of excellence’ for projects which have been evaluated as ‘excellent’ but are not financed by Horizon 2020; urges the Member States to provide a one-stop shop at regional level for the various EU financing instruments aimed at SMEs;

2016/03/03
Committee: REGI

2015/2282(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Asks the High Level Group on Simplification to draw attention to the need for SMEs to reduce the administrative burden and simplify procedures in the management of ESI Funds, in particular by clarifying the link between the rules on ESI Funds for SMEs and the rules on state aid;

2016/03/03
Committee: REGI

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Supports the idea of setting up helpdesks and guidelines for teachers offering them timely support in handling various types of diversity in the classroom and guidance when they are confronted with students at risk of being radicalised; calls for the creation of synergies between the ET2020 Working Groups and the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) Working Group on Education;

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2281(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Notes that the ‘brain drain’ effect linked to mobility poses risks for Member States, especially those in central/eastern and southern Europe, and expresses its concern at the failure of the ET 2020 Working Groups to adequately address the concept of unbalanced mobility;deleted

2016/03/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2280(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Underlines that the concept of results orientation requires that ETC programmes ensure high-quality project-level cooperation and adopt a new type of evaluation which contributes to reducing the administrative burden for recipients and managing authorities; calls on the Commission, the Member States and the managing authorities to undertake assessments and issue guidelines as to how results orientation can be better implemented and targeted, considering ETC specificities;

2016/04/06
Committee: REGI

2015/2280(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Considers that better coordination, synergy and complementarity should be sought between cross-border and transnational strands with a view to improving cooperation and integration over wider strategic territories; calls on the Commission to ensure coordination between regional and interregional programmes and cooperation from the outset to avoid overlaps and ensure greater coherence; calls for better coordination between managing authorities and macro-regional strategies’ actors;

2016/04/06
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

- having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas there is no explicit definition of mountainous regions in EU regional policy, and whereas the definition used in the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EARDF) ~~must be reworded~~cannot be used as it stands in the context of regional policy;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas support from the EARDF for mountainous regions could be complemented by European Structural and Investment (ESI) funds with a view to ~~achieving~~creating synergies which will make it possible to achieve better and more inclusive development;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to start the process of creating a working definition for functional mountainous regions in the context of the Cohesion Policy, as a complement to the definition used in the EARDF; considers that such a definition must be wide and inclusive, taking into account different factors such as altitude, accessibility and slope; calls on the Commission also to take into consideration areas that, while not mountainous, depend heavily on mountains and form a single mass with them; points out, in this context, the idea reflected in the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) of including non-mountainous areas in the strategy as a good initiative;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for synergies to be increased by means of the coordination of EU policies, strategies and programmes that have an indirect effect upon mountainous regions, such as Horizon 2020, COSME, LIFE, Natura 2000, the EU Broadband Strategy, the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy, the EU Environment Action Programme, the Connecting Europe Facility, European Territorial Cooperation, ESI Funds and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI); calls on the Commission to consider the specific application of these programmes to mountainous regions;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages the Member States to make use of tools such as the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and the Community-led Local Development (CLLD) instruments in support of the development of mountainous areas, in particular to support project engineering;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Underlines the need to be able to rely on trustworthy statistical data on which to base policy initiatives;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. RStresses the importance of agricultural production in mountain areas and the efforts undertaken to create added value; recognises the need for support from the EARDF, and believes that its synergy with ESI Funds could have a positive impact in mountainous regions;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Considers that increasing the qualifications of the workforce and the creation of new jobs in the green economy should be part of the investment priorities of the European Social Fund (ESF), and stresses that EU policies should support training in areas such as mountain agriculture, sustainable tourism, craft industries, sustainable forestry and renewable energy technologies;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Insists that reaching EU renewable energy targets must ~~not come at the cost~~take into account the balance of nature and the environment; recalls that, in some cases, hydropower and biomass extraction may ~~be highly damaging for~~damage ecosystems, while wind and solar energy plants can harm the landscape, while being a source of self-development;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. NEmphasises the vital role of mountain areas in preserving regional ecosystems; notes the dependence of urban areas on ecosystem services offered by mountainous regions, and that these regions often do not receive a just return;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2279(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)

40a. Calls on the Commission to confirm the interest of the European Union in supporting (TEN-T) transport infrastructure to overcome the barriers often created by mountain ranges;

2016/01/28
Committee: REGI

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to establish a mandatory exception to copyright for non- commercial uses for people with a disability, in order that they may gain access to works more easily, and to provide for that exemption to apply to the extent required by the specific disability concerned;

2016/02/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Welcomes the initiatives to provide audio-visual and other works with suitable subtitles or audio description so as to make them accessible to people with disabilities;

2016/02/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2258(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Supports initiatives aimed at making able-bodied people aware of the difficulties experienced by people with a disability;

2016/02/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Supports all accompanying measures first of all to assist and encourage apprentices in their wish to go abroad and later to help them better communicate their acquired skills through mobility, and develop their self- assertiveness in order to make the richness of their experience visible and worthwhile;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Supports all measures in line with Erasmus+ objectives taken by entrepreneurs to develop mobility schemes for young employees or apprentices either by branch of activity or in interaction with bodies representing the industries, such as chambers of commerce and industry and the relevant trade unions; encourages Member States and the Commission, to this end, to encourage the development of European business incubators with regard to mobility, to help wage-earners and apprentices to exchange places for training purposes;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Stresses the need to step up mutual recognition of diplomas, courses and study credits, in order to promote recognition of skills acquired as a result of mobility and to increase the attractiveness of the Erasmus+ programme;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Stresses the importance of allowing students to choose the disciplines that they wish to study at a foreign establishment, taking advantage of mobility, while preserving the integrity of their curriculum, in order to promote a personalised approach to education and to increase the motivation of students;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2257(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Stresses the importance of promoting the gains derived from mobility in terms of employability and acquired skills, in order to demonstrate its genuine utility and to reduce the perception that time is wasted on training which a priori depends on purely national competences;

2015/12/07
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that equal access to affordable childcare ~~and~~is of key importance in maintaining a work-life balance that will prevent women from being obliged to work on a part-time or half-time basis or to give up working altogether and that access to free, high-quality education is central to securing equal opportunities and breaking poverty cycles;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Highlights that gender equality in education implies that girls and boys, women and men, are afforded the same chances and treatment in access, process and outcome for high-quality education; points out that, although women make up 60% of all graduates in the EU, unemployment remains higher among women than among men; stresses, therefore, the need for sustainable responses that make gender equality a central consideration in careers guidance policies and policies to safeguard jobs and boost growth;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls that gender mainstreaming at all levels of the education system is needed, including assessing the implications for girls and boys, women and men of any planned action and the need to let the concerns and experiences of all, form the design, implementation and evaluation of poland stresses the need to combat stereotypes surrounding technical subjects, which narrow girls’ career choicies;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that poverty can consciously or unconsciously influence boys’ and girls’ educational choices by making money a factor; stresses, therefore, the important role that advice for families from educational guidance staff plays in allowing boys and girls to realise their full potential by helping them to make the right educational choices;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Affirms~~Points out that, in comparison to girls, boys are ~~almost~~ twice as likely to leave school with low or no qualifications ~~but that socio-economic background and status seem to be a stronger predictor of educational achievement than gender alone.~~and accordingly calls for appropriate educational support to be provided in order to redress this imbalance;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the importance of lifelong learning in providing fresh opportunities for adults who were obliged to leave school early or whose initial educational choices did not allow them to realise their potential or their ambitions;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to guarantee access to professional training programmes for young people and adults, and to promote those programmes; points to the important role played by the European Social Fund in helping people into employment by financing training policies, and calls on Member States and local authorities to encourage use of the fund;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Points out that the 2008 crisis put a brake on women’s progression on and access to the labour market, where they are losing out to men with the same qualifications; calls on the Commission to take steps to ensure career equality and thus prevent women from experiencing slower career progression and falling into poverty; calls, with a view to increasing the number of women in all areas of the labour market and ensuring equal opportunities, for special support measures that will allow women to combine work and training and at the same time share family responsibilities with their spouses;

2015/11/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2224(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

– having regard to its resolution of 26 November 2015 entitled ‘Towards simplification and performance orientation in cohesion policy 2014-2020’,

2015/12/17
Committee: REGI

2015/2224(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the integrated and place- based approaches are intended to improve the performance and efficiency of public interventions by meeting the specific requirements of the territories and helping to make them more attractive;

2015/12/17
Committee: REGI

2015/2224(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Encourages the Member States to increase the use of CLLD and ITI and to allow more flexible rules in areas referred to in Article 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, such as islands, mountainous and rural regions; stresses the importance of allowing for some flexibility in terms of how the funds are used, by finding a balance between following the strategy on the one hand, and adapting to circumstances and new opportunities on the other;

2015/12/17
Committee: REGI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A (new)

A. whereas in some Member States the implementation of Article 13 on the promotion of European works by on- demand services is not prescriptive enough to meet the cultural diversity objective spelled out in the Directive;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission to overhaul Directive 2010/13/EU1 without delay, doing away with the distinction between linear and non-linear services, ~~encouraging the use of editorially screened content to which the country-of- origin principle applies and fleshing out the general social objectives of audiovisual regulation~~in order to bring about convergence of regulation of audiovisual services with similar functions, which are currently regulated differently; __________________ 1 Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1).

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Considers, however, that the scope of the directive should not be extended to audiovisual content which is not the principal purpose of the information service;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Emil RADEV, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Welcomes the communication of the Commission" Towards a Connected Digital Single Market Act" and the included commitment to modernise the copyright framework to adapt them to the digital age while at the same time ensuring the right balance between a fair remuneration of the author, the public interest of dissemination of knowledge and preserving cultural diversity;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recommends reviewing the level of regulation for the areas of Directive 2010/13/EU in which the aims of the legislation are not being achieved; believes that European-level minimum requirements for all audiovisual media services should be put in place; stresses that high standards should apply to all audiovisual media services to ensure youth protection, consumer protection and data protection;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the economic importance of the cultural and creative industries, which, with a turnover of EUR 535.9 billion and 7.1 million jobs, and as the third largest source of employment in the EU, are a driving force behind growth in Europe; considers that this sector, whose cornerstone is intellectual property and particularly copyright, requires a consolidated and enhanced regulatory framework in order to guarantee the vitality, influence and above all diversity of European culture;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Emil RADEV, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses the potential of the Digital Single Market to stimulate social and generational inclusion which requires a regulatory framework that makes private investment in creative infrastructure commercially attractive as this will ultimately be beneficial to creators and end-users;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

Stresses that the aim of amending Directive 2010/13/EU must be to review the regulatory objective of the existing media-specific legal framework for audiovisual media and bring this framework into line with current realities in markets which have converged;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Regrets that the requirements of Article 13 on the promotion of European works by on-demand services have been implemented in different manner by many Member States resulting in the absence of clear obligations and monitoring; combined with the country of origin principle, it has encouraged forum shopping for on-demand services;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV, Mary HONEYBALL, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Kaja KALLAS, József SZÁJER, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph -2 a (new)

-2a. Calls on distributors to publish all available information concerning the technological measures necessary to ensure interoperability of their content;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses that the country of origin (or country of broadcasting) principle enshrined in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive is still a significant prerequisite for the provision of audiovisual content across borders and a milestone on the way to a common market in services; emphasises, however, the need to adapt EU law to the realities of the internet and the digital environment, and to pay special attention to companies offering audiovisual content on-line or on-demand which try to evade taxation and audiovisual regulation in certain Member States by basing themselves in countries with a very low tax rate or audiovisual regulation;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Kaja KALLAS, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph -2 b (new)

-2b. Insists on the need to pursue the Commission’s Work Programme with a view to the adoption of a series of digital- market-related measures to modernise copyright rules, adapting them to the digital era;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph -2 c (new)

-2c. Underscores the crucial role played by the legal framework for copyright in sustaining the creative process and enabling authors to earn a living as professionals in the cultural and creative industries; with reference in this regard to the recent studies by, respectively, the European Parliament on Contractual Arrangements applicable to Creators and the Commission on remuneration of authors, calls on the Commission to ensure that the core element of any reform of copyright law is the equitable remuneration of authors for the use of their work on line;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses the dual character of audiovisual media as cultural and economic assets;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Calls the European Commission to analyse the possibility for the strengthening of Article 13 by introducing a combination of clear requirements, including a financial contribution, and monitoring tools for the promotion of European works by on-demand services;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses that the country of origin of the advertising profit, the language of the service and the targeted public of the advertisement and content should be considered as part of the criteria to determine the audiovisual regulation to be applied to audiovisual media services or to contest the initial determination of the competent Member State;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Considers that an amendment to Directive 2010/13/EU should create fair competitive conditions by bringing the rights and obligations of broadcasters into line with those of other market operators by means of a cross-cutting legal framework applicable to all media;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. BWel~~iev~~comes th~~at platforms and intermediaries should be regulated in such a way as to rule out discrimin~~e Commission’s initiative to analyse (inter alia, on the basis of public consultation) t~~o a large extent and guarantee the findability of editorially screened content~~he role of online platforms in the digital single market and in a context of media convergence, and calls on it to establish a definition of the term ‘online platform’;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Emil RADEV, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls for targeted, evidence-based reforms to enhance cross-border access to legally available online content but stresses the importance of not mandating pan- European licences; calls instead for reforms to enable the enhanced portability of legally acquired content to be prioritised, and for the introduction of commercial models for flexible licensing, benefiting consumers without undermining either the principle of territoriality for exclusive rights or that of freedom of contract, both of which play a fundamental role in the financing of audiovisual works;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Emphasises, in this regard, that the Commission should be guided by the overarching objectives of non- discrimination, freedom of contract, accessibility, findability, technology and net neutrality, transparency and the establishment of a level playing field;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses the importance of the contribution made by cultural content to the development of the European digital economy; observes that a large part of the revenue generated by Internet intermediaries is directly or indirectly linked to the use of this cultural content;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Emil RADEV, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Emphasises that any reform of the copyright framework should take as a basis a high level of protection, since rights are crucial to intellectual creation and provide a stable, clear and flexible legal base that fosters investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector, whilst removing legal uncertainties and inconsistencies that adversely affect the functioning of the internal market;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Calls for the diversity of cultural and audiovisual work to be easily accessible to, and findable by, all Europeans, in particular where the content on offer to users is prescribed by device manufacturers, network operators, content providers or other aggregators;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, József SZÁJER, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Demands that no restrictions be placed on users’ ability to sort and prioritise content;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that any initiative to modernise copyright is preceded by a wide-ranging study of its likely impact on the production, financing and distribution of audiovisual works, and also on cultural diversity;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Emil RADEV, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Asks the Commission to ensure in this respect fair remuneration for creators and rightholders and to guarantee that persistence and perseverance is exercised throughout the creative supply chain;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Axel VOSS, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)

2f. Points out that, in dynamically developing digital markets, rigid rules on platform regulation can undermine the innovative potential of new business models; notes moreover that it is preferable to take a case-by-case approach to the use of statutory instruments for regulation;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that ~~further efforts are needed to overhaul copyright law and that any revised provisions should apply to all media;~~ it is necessary to make the appropriate amendments to the regulatory framework of copyright in order to tackle the true problem of the cultural and creative industry, namely that of rebalancing the transfer of value within the digital economy;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses th~~at further efforts ar~~e needed to ~~overhaul~~review copyright law ~~and that any revised provisions should apply to all~~only where it is strictly necessary, while taking into account the convergence of media;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Underlines that the revision of copyright exceptions should only be based on proven needs and without prejudice to the European cultural diversity, to its financing and to the fair remuneration of authors;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Kaja KALLAS, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States, in the context of overall VAT reform, to consider the possibility of making e-books subject to the same rate of VAT as cultural goods;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that copyright is both the economic basis for creative activity and the guarantor of Europe’s creative diversity and broad knowledge base;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Recalls that the financing of audiovisual content relies for a significant part on the principle of territoriality of rights, which allowed a strong cultural diversity within the European production.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. BStresses the need to adjust the definition of the status of intermediary in the current digital environment; believes that internet service providers should bear greater responsibility for illegal content made available on the internet and should, along with other actors in the supply chain such as payment providers, play a significant role in tackling copyright abuses;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Underlines the importance of the territoriality principle for Europe’s film culture, for example, and calls for financing models for audiovisual works based on national licensing models not to be destroyed by binding, pan-European licences; instead, the cross-border portability of legally-acquired content should be promoted;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Underlines that "premium access" through the presale of rights is one of the core conditions for financing audiovisual content, as it allows a return on investment and new resources to finance future audiovisual content;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that internet service providers should bear greater responsibility for illegal content made available on the internet and should, along with other actors in the supply chain such as payment providers, play a significant role in tackling copyright abuses; Encourages the actors of the supply chain to exchange information and good practices, and to take coordinated and proportionate actions to fight commercial scale infringement on the basis of sector agreements;

2015/09/24
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Continues to support in this context the continued use of a variety of business models;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Underlines that audiovisual content may have different market value from a Member State to another, depending on the characteristics of the national market, and requires targeted and specific promotion campaign to get the content to its public;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls the Member States to extend the scope of the quotation exception, without prejudice to the authors' moral rights, to short audiovisual quotations for non- advertisement and non-political uses, provided that the work used is clearly credited, that the quotation does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not prejudice the legitimate interests of the authors;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Calls for further dialogue between the rightholders, the online platforms and the creators relying on these platforms in order to achieve a mutually beneficial cooperation, where copyrights are protected while allowing and encouraging innovative ways of creating;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Takes the view that the legislature should consider solutions for the displacement of value from content to services;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Constance LE GRIP, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Emphasis that the agreements between the actors of the supply chain as well as the process to fight commercial scale infringements should be transparent for the authorities, the online services and the consumers;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for the status of and arrangements governing the responsibility of intermediaries and online platforms to be clarified as part of the future reform of copyright law in order to restore the balance of interests involved, which is not safeguarded at present; takes the view that these online intermediaries generate income from cultural works and content, but this income is not shared with the creators; considers it vital, therefore, not to hamper the development of the digital single market, while at the same time guaranteeing fair remuneration for creators;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that creative works, which represent one of the main sources that guarantee the functioning of the digital economy and sustain information technology sector stakeholders, should be the subject of a fair transfer of value to the benefit of their authors;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Insists that any measures taken by the actors of the supply chain to fight commercial scale infringements should be justified and include the possibility of effective and user-friendly remedies for adversely affected parties;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, József SZÁJER, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Believes that~~Calls on the Commission to check whether the legal thinking behind Directive 93/83/EEC2 provides a suitable point of departure for measures to improve cross-border access to content in the digital single market. __________________ 2 Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable transmission (OJ L 248, 6.10.1993, p. 15).

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Commission to consider solutions aimed at remedying the displacement of the value of creative works from content to services; stresses the need to adjust the definition of the status of intermediary to match the current digital environment;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Recalls that coercive measures taken by the actors of the supply chain to fight copyright infringements should be a last resort solution and should not include the non-judicial blocking of websites;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Recalls, in the Member States in which this is permitted by law, the practical limitations and the current limited effectiveness in the long run of judicial blocking of websites and of the notice and take down system; Emphasise therefore the need to reinforce the efficacy of these measures or to find new measures to fight copyright infringement, without prejudice to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and to the principle of proportionality;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that including classes in IT skills in the school curriculum would be extremely useful and stresses in this context the parallel need for constant training for the teachers;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Believes that when the Member States introduce the list of major events, including sports and entertainment events that are of general interest, it should be mandatory to notify this list to the European Commission; listed events should be accessible and in line with the prevailing quality standards;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to set the basis for mutual recognition of the digital skills developed by European citizens through the education system or through training programs.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Antonio TAJANI, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the increasing development of e-commerce and online activities provides new possibilities for consumer protection and IPR enforcement; whereas the application of a duty of care along the supply chain would reinforce consumer and business trust online[CE1] by increasing cooperation and exchange of information and best practices to combat illegal goods and content;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to encourage portability of content and interoperability while respecting economic models based on territoriality of rights in Europe, particularly as regards the financing of audiovisual production; observes that territoriality is at the heart of the economy in this sector of copyright, and that therefore it must not be jeopardised, particularly not by a system of pan- European licences;

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that in order to achieve a meaningful enforcement of copyright, full information as regards to the identity of the rightholders and, where relevant, to the duration of the legal protection, should be easily accessible for the public;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that, in the teaching of digital skills, particular consideration should be given to ‘vulnerable populations’ 1 a and calls for projects for the teaching of digital skills specifically to these people to be more intensively and sustainably promoted; __________________ 1a Defined as in the Tunis Agenda and the Geneva Declaration of Principles of the World Summit on the Information Society.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls the Commission and the Member States to set up a European certificate or grading system to establish a common assessment of the digital skills developed by European citizens, following the example of the European common framework of reference for language learning and teaching.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Philippe JUVIN, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that copyright infringements committed by the public find one of its sources in the difficulty to find easily the desired content within the legal offer; calls, therefore, for a wide range of user- friendly legal offers to be developed and promoted to the public;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Underlines the importance of proper training for teachers on digital skills, on the way to teach these skills efficiently to students, and on how to use these skills to support the learning process in general.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Underline the importance of enhancing the portability within the European Union of online services of legally acquired and legally made available content, whilst fully respecting copyrights and the interests of right- holders.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)

4e. Stresses that cross-border access to legally made available audiovisual content should not hinder its financing process and subsequently the European cultural diversity.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Constance LE GRIP

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)

4f. Underlines that the legal audiovisual online offer should be furthermore developed in order to enhance the accessibility to a wide and diverse content for the consumers, with various language and subtitle options.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Philippe JUVIN, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)

4g. Calls the Member States to optimise the media chronology, in order to accelerate the availability of audiovisual content for the consumers, while maintaining a sustainable first and second window of diffusion.

2015/10/02
Committee: CULT

2015/2147(INI)

Emil RADEV, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Mary HONEYBALL, Philippe JUVIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses that digital developments also provide for a meaningful change in public administration, establishing much more effective, simplified and user-friendly e- administration. In this regard it is very important for the citizens and the business to have interconnected commercial registers;

2015/09/28
Committee: JURI

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Carlos COELHO, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the Commission’'s initiative to improve ~~the~~consumers' legal protection ~~of consumers as regards~~concerning intangible digital content; points out that while consumers buying genuine tangible digital content, goods and services are protected by consumer protection laws, consumer rights when buying intangible digital content remain largely unregulated; agrees that consumers should enjoy ~~a comparabl~~the same level of protection regardless of whether they purchase digital content ~~online or off~~, goods and services online or offline; calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt the necessary measures against the sales of illicit content and goods online;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Michał BONI, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Believes that building a truly inclusive Digital Single Market requires the interoperability of systems, the use of common standards and the application of the same rules online as offline;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Emil RADEV, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Considers that ambitious actions are needed to improve access to legal digital content, and tangible goods and services by in particular by ending unjustified geo- blocking practices and unfair price discrimination based on geographical location;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Carlos COELHO, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Asks the Commission to propose measures to end practices such as IP tracking or the deliberate non- interoperability of systems restricting the choice of consumers and to guarantee the portability of people's digital lives;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Antonio TAJANI, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Acknowledges that geo-blocking may be justified in certain cases, for example in the audiovisual sector, where financing production depends to a large extent on territorial exclusivity;

2015/10/21
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Antonio TAJANI, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Appreciates the Commission’'s initiative to analyse the role of platforms inas part of the Digital ~~Economy as part of~~Single Market Strategy and calls on the Commission to ensure that all actors along the sup~~coming Internal Market Strategy~~ply chain apply a duty of care by taking all necessary measures against the sales of illicit content and goods;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Antonio TAJANI, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Urges the Commission to distinguish between technical intermediaries providing straightforward hosting services and platforms seeking to make protected works available to the public, and clarify the provisions of Directive 2000/31 on electronic commerce and Directive 2001/29 on copyright and related rights in the information society;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Pascal ARIMONT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Urges the Commission to take into account the essential contribution of the cultural and creative industries in the digital economy and ensure that rights holders are entitled to remuneration for the online use of their works by platforms;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2147(INI)

Philippe JUVIN, Antonio TAJANI, Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ, Sven SCHULZE, Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Considers that the rights and duties of all operators of the digital value chain should be clarified through the application of a duty of care principle, which should apply to online intermediaries;

2015/10/22
Committee: ITRE IMCO

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Advocates that fostering an intercultural ~~and interfaith~~ approach in the educational field is needed in order to address and promote ~~multiculturalism, integration~~integration, cultural diversity and social cohesion;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the need to ~~prepare~~train future generations by ensuring that they have the motivation, commitment and skills to ~~be audacious problem solvers~~address effectively and innovatively the challenges European citizens will face in the future;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Emphasises the role and importance of the Erasmus+ programme in fostering a European awareness among young people and creating a culture of intercultural dialogue by facilitating their mobility, as well as increasing their employability;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Highlights the role played by sport, particularly among young people, in forging links between communities and fostering positive intercultural dialogue;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Stresses the importance of activities for young people as a means of rebuilding the foundations for a constructive and peaceful dialogue among communities;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Notes that while it is legitimate for governments to address criminal activities, punitive measures should not violate f~~Recalls the legitimacy and accountability governments and European institutions have to combat criminal activities, in compliance with the Charter of Fundamental rRights of the EU;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to involve migrants, refugees, marginalised communities and faith communities in respectful and empowering integration processes, ensuring their participation in civic and cultural life by designing permanent mechanisms;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Emphasises the rich contribution of European cinema to cultural diversity and the role it thus plays in spreading the values of the EU and exhorting European citizens to develop critical thinking;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2139(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Recalls the role played by the LUX Prize in rewarding European films celebrating European identity or European cultural diversity;

2015/10/28
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas poor knowledge about the EU, its concrete added-value and its values may contribute to the perception of a democratic deficit and lead to widespread Euroscepticism in Member States;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas increased awareness about the benefits of European policies, such as free movement of people and services within the Union and EU mobility programmes can help to create a sense of belonging to the EU, community spirit and acceptance of multicultural and multinational societies;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines the increasing importance of a European dimension in education across the different disciplines, while stressing the need for a broad understanding of the concept which takes into account its complex, dynamic and multi-layered nature, with learning about the EU at school being a crucial component;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Points out that the EU should be more visible in teaching materials, given its impact on the everyday life of its citizens; considers that content explicitly related to the EU can add substantial value to school curricula and to the personal development of students, for instance in the awareness of the European cultural and opinion diversity and in the understanding of the world around us; emphasises the need to use active and participative teaching methods tailored to learners’ levels, needs and interests;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines that an EU dimension in education should enable learners not only to acquire knowledge, but also to engage in a critical reflection on the EU, including EU decision-making processes and how these influence their Member State and their democratic participation; encourages to this end the use of European Youth Parliament role-play games, to help children and students understand the European processes and raise their awareness of European issues;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls the need to ensure, enhance and broaden initial and ongoing professional development opportunities for teachers and educators in order to enable them to incorporate an EU dimension into their teaching, in particular with regard to citizenship education, for instance through the organisation of European-level seminars where teachers and national education civil servants from the Member States could exchange on good practices on teaching the European dimension both in general and in their specific discipline;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for an urgent renewal and strengthening of EU citizenship and political education across thboth the Member States and the future Member States, with the aim of equipping learners with relevant knowledge, skills and competences, and empowering them to exercise their democratic rights and responsibilities, to value diversity, and to be active and responsible citizens;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Call to make full use of the opportunities offered by digital technologies to further develop cross- border teaching, through digital courses and video conferences, in order to facilitate the discovery for students of other points of view and approaches regarding their disciplines;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Philippe JUVIN, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Stresses the importance and the potential of a European approach on the teaching of history, while bearing in mind the competence of Member States on the matter, as some historic events were determinant in the emergence of the European ideal and values;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Calls the Commission to prepare guidelines, with concrete examples, on the way to teach the benefits of the European Union for its citizens in an understandable manner for children;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, György HÖLVÉNYI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Recalls the wide range of actions possible through the Erasmus+ programme, as well as its popularity and recognition by the general public, in particular for the mobility of students as part of their studies; calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise awareness around the parts of the Erasmus+ programme which are less well-known, such as the European Voluntary Service;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Encourages the Commission to continue its support for efforts to develop and promote an EU dimension in education as well as the mobility of educational actors, and to actively disseminate information – including information on relevant funding opportunities and available studies and reports – to key stakeholders;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2138(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Svetoslav Hristov MALINOV, Andrea BOCSKOR, György HÖLVÉNYI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on Member States to increase investment in education and to provide the necessary support and training for schools and teachers to carry out and continuously develop an EU dimension in education; to this end, teachers should be encouraged to spend part of their initial formation in another Member States in order to discover other perspectives and teaching methods of their discipline;

2015/11/26
Committee: CULT

2015/2128(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes, on the one hand, that once again cohesion policy is not the area with the highest number of irregularities reported as fraudulent, and, on the other hand, that the largest proportion of such irregularities in this policy area concern the European Regional Development Fund; recalls that all irregularities are not fraud and that non-fraudulent and fraudulent irregularities must be differentiated;

2015/10/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2128(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that measures to detect irregularities continue to vary between Member States, mainly on account of differing definitions of irregularities; welcomes the preventive and corrective measures taken by the Commission to avoid fraudulent irregularities, including by interrupting 193 payments under the cohesion policy; underlines that non- fraudulent irregularities are often linked to complex rules and requirements for the recipients; believes that simplification of the rules and procedures by the Member States and the Commission will decrease the number of non-fraudulent irregularities; calls on the Member States to encourage exchanges of good practices in order to prevent, detect, transmit and evaluate frauds and irregularities;

2015/10/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2128(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that the Common Provisions Regulation requires managing authorities to put in place effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures; points out that cohesion policy reform has led to decentralized EU fund management and that the new local management authorities need to be empowered to effectively combat fraud and irregularities; calls on the Commission to reinforce preventive action, in particular by strengthening the technical and administrative capacities of managing authorities to ensure more robust control systems able to reduce the risks of fraud and increase detection capacity; calls on the Member States to set up coherent national strategies encompassing prevention, detection and law enforcement to efficiently fight against fraud;

2015/10/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2128(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines that a significant part of the money spent in the area of regional policy is spent through public procurement; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully analyse the frequency, seriousness and causes of public procurement errors in the area of cohesion policy; calls on the Member States to improve the transposition of all directives relative to public procurement;

2015/10/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2128(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Underlines that fraud and corruption are more and more transnational; calls on the Council to support the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) provided that the relationship between the EPPO and other existing EU bodies is further defined and clearly demarcated in order to avoid the inefficient overlapping of competences;

2015/10/21
Committee: REGI

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Stresses the potential that greater Member State cooperation has to increase the impact of EU cultural diplomacy, notably through better coordination between cultural attachés at EU delegations and Member State representations, or by cultural bodies in Member States pooling their resources in non-EU countries;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 k (new)

1k. Encourages enhanced cooperation between cultural institutions and civil society, partnerships between towns, and the creation of European ‘creative hubs’ in non-EU countries;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 n (new)

1n. States that cultural projects and cultural diplomacy initiatives have to be monitored and assessed to be sure funds are well used and to ascertain the calibre and impact of the initiatives;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Emphasises the symbolic significance of cultural heritage, making its protection essential through greater coordination and public awareness now that, as demonstrated by the abuses of Daesh/ISIS, it has become a political target;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2104(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls in this respect for efforts to stop the destruction of cultural world heritage to be intensified in collaboration with UNESCO and the other UN Member States;

2015/07/20
Committee: CULT

2015/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises that migrants should not only be considered a humanitarian phenomenon but also an opportunity for the EU to enhance economic and social development; asks the Member States, along with regional and local authorities, to promote a sustainable set of measures, such as access to the labour market; feels that European migration policy must draw a clear distinction between refugees and economic migrants; stresses that these two categories must be subject to different approaches;

2016/01/19
Committee: REGI

2015/2095(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to be flexible in using existing programmes to address the current additional challenges for cohesion policy; welcomes the Commission’s readiness to examine proposals by the Member States to make use of EU support, and its willingness to examine and rapidly approve amendments to the 2014-2020 Operational Programmes in order to better integrate migrants; urges the Member States accordingly to take advantage of the funding available through the ESI Funds while recalling the primary role of cohesion policy as an investment tool promoting growth and employment and as a tool to reduce regional disparities;

2016/01/19
Committee: REGI

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Encourages businesses to establish lasting links and partnerships with educational establishments in order to facilitate entry to the business world for their students and ensure skills taught are constantly better matched to the real needs of the working world;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. States that while for students traineeships are a learning opportunity, businesses shall perform their role of mentoring and training and be careful not to view these traineeships as a rich source of cheap labour;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises the importance of addressing skills shortages and mismatches by facilitating the mobility of learners in VET, through a better use of tools such as the European Qualifications Framework, the European Skills Passport, the Youth Guarantee and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training, and, more specifically, through the new Erasmus+ programme which encourages youth mobility and works towards skills and qualifications being recognised both by education and training systems and on the labour market;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to incorporate new technologies in the learning process ~~and to intensify ICT training at all levels of education~~, particularly with the aim of enriching primary education, and to intensify ICT training at all levels of education, including for teaching staff; stresses that familiarisation with ICT has to be backed up by digital skills training too in order to meet the needs of a digitised economy;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages Member States to improve the learning of foreign languages, and particularly European ones, as geographic mobility seems to be the best weapon for finding employment and against youth unemployment;

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2088(INI)

Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recalls the wealth of jobs, often ones that cannot be relocated elsewhere, to be found using traditional skills which, moreover, help stimulate local economies and are of cultural interest; encourages Member States therefore to draw young people’s attention to the advantages of these skills and jobs.

2015/08/04
Committee: CULT

2015/2074(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underscores that the Union communication policy must urgently be improved in order to better enter into dialogue with citizens, and in this regard highlights the positive role of pan- European networks made up of local and national media such as EuranetPlus; calls on the Commission to reinstate sustainable financing for these networks;

2015/05/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that the prevention of terrorism and countering of radicalisation is one of the key priorities within the European Agenda for Security, and stresses the need for a multifaceted, holistic preventive approach to address the root causes of terrorism; reiterates the fundamental role of family, education, teacher training, youth policies and interfaith and intercultural dialogue to prevent radicalisation leading to violent extremism;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses that the initial stages of radicalisation are marked by the isolation of the individual from traditional social circles, in particular the family and school; underlines the importance of suitable communication between parents, teachers and the authorities to detect signs of radicalisation in young people;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with concern the use of the internet and social media for the dissemination of propaganda material and recruitment by terrorist organisations, and underlines the need to develop innovative online counter-communication with Member States and to stimulate critical digital judgement skills among all vulnerable internet users; emphasises the crucial role of a wide range of stakeholders, including educators, role models, on-line service providers and community groups, to develop and put across effective counter-messages;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with concern the use of the internet and social media for the dissemination of propaganda material and recruitment by terrorist organisations, and underlines the need to develop innovative online counter-communication with Member States and to stimulate critical digital judgement skills among all vulnerable internet users; emphasises the crucial role of a wide range of stakeholders, including educators, media, political organisations, role models and community groups, to develop effective counter-messages;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that social and internet networks are just one part of the radicalisation process and that combating the digital purveyors of radicalisation must be only one part of the fight against radicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Encourages active cooperation between the Member States, the EU and online service providers to combat the dissemination of radicalising material and propaganda on the internet;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Reminds the media of the educational aim of the Creative Europe programme, which enables projects aimed at constructing a critical dialogue with media – especially digital media – to obtain financing in the context of the fight against radicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls the importance of EU programmes in the field of education, culture and sport, such as Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens, as crucial vectors for supporting Member States' efforts to tackle inequalities and prevent marginalisation; calls on the Commission to implement its commitment to mobilise targeted funding to promote concrete actions to challenge extremist ideologies and radicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Marc JOULAUD, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for financing from the Horizon 2020 programme to be used to increase research into radicalisation and deradicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that a low political participation of young people in the democratic life of Europe as well as the recent outburst of political radicalisation are a consequence of the lack of democratic culture, especially among the youth;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Recalls the importance of education for democracy, active citizenship and democratic political culture and the importance of values that are at the heart of the European Union – freedom, tolerance, equality and rule of law;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Notes that a highly inclusive education, one of the strategic objectives of the Education and Training 2020 framework, can counterbalance disadvantages that many children and young people face at home and in this way help to prevent the radicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Reiterates the importance of promotion of equality, social cohesion and active citizenship through education and training and the importance of providing the children and young people with a chance to develop skills and competencies needed for active citizenship, intercultural and interreligious dialogue;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Stresses that participation in the Erasmus+ programme increases the level of active citizenship among youth; recalls that the former Erasmus students show greater sense of European identity, increased sense of belonging and positive perception of the EU which can all diminish the possibility of radicalisation and tackle problems of intolerance and discrimination;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2063(INI)

Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Stresses the need to find a balance between the freedom of expression and the objectives of security and prevention of radicalisation;

2015/08/13
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the current discussions about a possible extension of the Geographical Indication (GI) protection of the European Union to non-agricultural products; considers that the EU is particularly rich in such authentic products based on local know-how and traditional production methods and often rooted in the heritage of a specific geographical area; recalls that the preservation of these methods is based on a continuous transfer of knowledge from generation to generation;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights that the geographical indication protection of non-agricultural products can function as an incentive to preserve the cultural heritage, traditional know-how, as well as the traditional ways of knowledge transfer from one generation to the next one;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that geographical indications provide an assurance of product quality for consumers, as well as being a recognition of know-how and a means of protection for producers;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that preserving of traditional know-how and production can help to stop the depopulation and destruction of rural areas and the flow of young people that are leaving those areas;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. The traditional know-how represents an important aspect of European cultural heritage and European history and should be specially protected, also through the geographical indication protection mechanism;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises the importance of creating a future legal framework that guarantees that the link to the original geographical area and traditional methods remains a priority, and that clearly specifies the conditions under which the denomination may be used outside the reference space;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2053(INI)

Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the regulator to take into account the GIs already existing in the Member States in order to avoid unnecessary red tape for their registration at European level.; calls on the regulator to propose the most efficient, simple, useful and accessible mechanism for registration of products;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Believes that the Commission, Parliament and the Council should record and disclose all input received from lobbyists/interest representatives on draft policies, laws and amendments as a ‘legislative footprint’; suggests that this legislative footprint should consist of a form annexed to reports, detailingin detail all the lobbyists with whom those in charge of a particular file have met in the process of drawing up each report and, a s far as possible, reconrd ~~document listing all written input received~~any written proposals for amendment or voting instructions sent unilaterally by external stakeholders;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Calls on~~Welcomes the Commission ~~to expand and improve its existing~~'s initiative as laid out in its decision of 25 November 2014 on the publication of information on meetings held between Members of the Commission and organisations or self- employed individuals; c~~onsiders that the recording of meeting data should~~alls on the Commission to improve this mechanism, in particular bey expandeding it to include everyone involved in the EU’s ~~policy-mak~~legislative initiative drafting process;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to make all information con ~~lobby influence~~cerning meetings with lobbyists easily accessible to the public through one centralised online database;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that, among the Members of the European Parliament, those appointed rapporteur or ~~committee chair have a special responsibility to be transparent about their contact~~shadow rapporteur should act transparently with regard to their relations with lobbyists in view of their role in EU legislation;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Suggests that the Code of Conduct should be amended so as to make it mandatory also for rapporteurs and ~~committee chairs to adopt the same pract~~shadow rapporteurs to record, within the services of ~~exclusively meeting registered lobbyists and publish information on such meetings online and for rapporteurs to publish a legislative footprint;~~ their parliamentary committee, information concerning their meetings with lobbyists, so that it can be included in the online file at the end of the parliamentary committee procedure; encourages rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs to prioritise, as far as possible, meetings with lobbyists who are on the register;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Proposes that information published online concerning appointments of rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs with lobbyists should include the date, venue, name of the organisation with which the meeting is held, its client, should it have one, and the purpose of the appointment;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Encourages Members of the European Parliament to record voluntarily any appointments they have had with lobbyists in connection with their parliamentary duties, either in person or through their offices, and to make them available to the public online;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

~~6. Believes that an amendment should introduce mandatory monthly updates on lobby expenditures;~~deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

~~9. Considers lobby transparency through monthly reporting by lobbyists about their meetings as a key element for future EU legislation;~~deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Insists that registered law firms should declare in the lobby register all clients on whose behalf they perform ~~covered activities~~lobbying activities in the EU institutions that fall within the scope of the register;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Asks the Bureau to restrict access to Parliament’s premises for non-registered organisations or individuals by making all visitors to its premises sign a declaration that they are not lobbyists falling within the scope of the register or otherwise declare their registration, or that they are not present in Parliament in their capacity as a lobbyist;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Believes that~~Encourages representations of national, regional and local governments ~~should not fall under the EU lobby register if they have their own mandatory lobby register and do not offer workspace for private or corporate actors within their representations~~to set up a lobby register where they are fully publicly funded;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Believes that the members of the Advisory Committee chosen from among Members of the European Parliament should be complemented by ~~a majority of~~ externally chosen members who ~~must b~~are qualified ~~experts~~ in the field of ethics regulation ~~and should be drawn from an open call and include~~, in addition to members of civil society;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Believes that the Code of Conduct should be amended to provide for a ~~three- year~~ ‘cooling-off period’ during which Members may not engage in lobbying work in ~~the area of~~areas directly linked to their parliamentary responsibilities they held;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Believes that for Members of the Commission the ‘cooling-off period’ should be extended to three years and that a two-year cooling-off period should also apply to all Commission staff involved in the drafting or implementation of EU legislation or treaties, including contract staff;deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

~~25. Considers control by Parliament of the financing of European political parties to be an unnecessary conflict of interest;~~deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Calls for control of the financing of European political parties to ~~be assigned to a neutral body~~involve independent external experts;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls for citizens to have the same right of appeal when requesting information as they enjoy when requesting specific documents, where that information is of proven public interest;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Regrets that the Council’s lack of transparency is having a disproportionately large impact in preventing citizens and national parliaments f~~orm holding governments accountable owing to a lack of information on the positions of individual Member States~~rom being properly informed about the activities of their governments; believes that this lack of information is fuelling public mistrust of the European Union;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Believes, therefore, that ~~preparatory meetings within the Council should be as public as meetings of Parliament’s committees~~more information should be made available to the public on the discussions held during preparatory meetings within the Council;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

~~34. Believes that the chairs of Parliament’s committees should proactively publish minutes and all documents used in trialogues;~~deleted

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Calls on the Presidency of the Council to include all ~~trialogue document~~documents relating to trialogues held behind closed doors in the documents register to allow for access in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Deems it unacceptable that Parliament has less, or less open, access to EU documents ~~in trade negotiations~~ than some members of national parliaments;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Calls on the Commission to ~~put into practice all~~take account of the Ombudsman’s recommendations in favour of more transparency in trade negotiations;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Believes that, when the Commission engages in ~~trade~~international negotiations, it should publish the negotiation mandates~~, all negotiating positions, all requests and offers and all consolidated draft negotiation texts prior to each negotiation round~~ before the negotiations begin, so that the European Parliament ~~and~~, national parliaments, a~~s well as civil society organisations and the wider public, can make recommendations thereon before~~nd citizens can take note of them; calls on the Commission to ensure public access to other documents connected to these negotiations ~~are closed for comments and the agreement goes to ratification~~, provided their publication is no longer liable to affect the course of the negotiations or European interests;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. ~~Calls on~~Recommends that the Commission ~~to propose an interinstitutional agreement in or~~include these principles in a guider to ~~codify those principles for all trade negotiations~~good practice applicable to future international negotiations undertaken by the EU;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)

41a. Welcomes the Commission's efforts to enhance the transparency of international negotiations and to allow Parliament to be properly informed throughout the negotiation process;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

42. Believes that decisions taken ~~or prepared~~ in the Eurogroup, in the Economic and Financial Committee, ~~‘informal’~~ Ecofin Council ~~meetings~~ and Euro summits must become as transparent and accountable as possible, including through the publication of their minutes;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Believes that the ongoing review of EU election law should include a rule ~~that persons found guilty~~limiting the possibility of running for office for persons convicted of corruption against the EU’s financial interests ~~or within Member States may not run for office in the next two terms of the European Parliament~~;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2041(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46

46. Believes that persons or companies ~~led or owned by such persons who are found guilty of corruption~~in which such persons exercise effective control who are convicted of corruption or misappropriation of public funds in the EU should, for at least three years, not be allowed to enter into procurement contracts with the European Union or be allowed to profit from EU funds;

2016/03/01
Committee: AFCO

2015/2006(INI)

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas entrepreneurship skills are linked to other sets of skills such as ICT skills, problem-solving skills and financial literacy which should be promoted;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Emphasises the necessity of the broad definition of the key competence ‘a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship’, which involves creativity, innovation and risk- taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives, and even the idea that the individual is aware of the context of his/her work and is able to seize opportunities that arise, which concerns both entrepreneurship and employment activity (in the latter case referred as ′intrapreneurship′);

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission to ~~create~~support a European Eentrepreneurship Eeducation Nnetwork to gather together and make available good practice to be shared by schools, organisations, businesses, authorities and other stakeholders at European, national and local levels, such as the European Entrepreneurship Education NETwork (EE-HUB) established in May 2015;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 – introductory part

11. Proposes that the Commission include entrepreneurship education and training as an explicit objective of a future Erasmus+ programme in the next financial period (post-2020) in all its actions, including mobility, while containing the following elements:

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/2006(INI)

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Andrea BOCSKOR, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Norbert ERDŐS, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission to include measures related to entrepreneurship education into the European Semester evaluation indicators starting in 2016;

2015/05/27
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) Since the internal market comprises an area without internal frontiers relying, inter alia, on the free movement of services and persons, it is necessary to provide that consumers can use online content services which legally offer access to content such as music, games, films or sporting events not only in their Member State of residence but also when they are temporarily present in other Member States of the Union. Therefore, barriers that hamper temporary access and use of such online content services cross border should be eliminated.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4

(4) There are a number of barriers which hinder the provision of these services to consumers temporarily present in another Member State. Certain online services include content such as music, games or films which are protected by copyright and/or related rights under Union law. In particular, the obstacles to cross- border portability of online content services stem from the fact that the rights for the transmission of content protected by copyright and/or related rights such as audiovisual works are often licensed on a territorial basis as well as from the fact that online service providers may choose to serve specific markets only. These practices play a strong role in the financing of European cultural content and respond to the needs of European markets. While such practices should not hamper the legitimate access to and use of online content services by consumers when they are temporarily present in another Member State, the territorial licencing system remains vital for the continuation of a strong European cultural diversity.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Online content services which are provided without payment of money are also included in the scope of this Regulation to the extent that providers verify the Member State of residence of their subscribers~~. Online content services which are provided without the payment of money and whose providers do not verify the Member State of residence of their subscribers~~ and choose freely to allow the access and use of their service to their subscribers. Online content services which are provided without the payment of money should be outside the scope of this Regulation as their mandatory inclusion would involve a major change to the way these services are delivered and involve disproportionate costs. As ~~concerns~~online content services which are provided without the payment of money are nevertheless important actors on the market, it should remain possible for them to offer cross- border portability to their subscribers under the strict condition that they take all the measures necessary to comply with this Regulation. As concerns the determination and verification of the subscriber's Member State of residence, information such as a payment of a licence fee for other services provided in the Member State of residence, the existence of a contract for internet or telephone connection, IP address or other means of authentication, should be relied upon, if they enable the provider to have reasonable indicators as to the Member State of residence of its subscribers.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) In order to ensure the cross-border portability of online content services it is necessary to require that online service providers enable their subscribers to use the service in the Member State of their temporary presence by providing them access to the same content on the same range and number of devices, for the same number of users and with the same range of functionalities as those offered in their Member State of residence. This obligation is mandatory and therefore the parties may not exclude it, derogate from it or vary its effect. Any action by a service provider which would prevent the subscriber from accessing or using the service while temporarily present in a Member State and not infringe this Regulation, for example restrictions to the functionalities of the service or to the quality of its delivery, would amount to a circumvention of the obligation to enable cross-border portability of online content services and therefore would be contrary to this Regulation.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)

(21a) The providers and holders of rights relevant for the provision of online content services should not be allowed to circumvent the application of this Regulation by choosing the law of a third country as the law applicable to contracts between them or to contracts between providers and subscribers.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)

(22a) Should a subscriber fail to provide the necessary information and the provider is unable to verify the Member State of residence as required under this Regulation as a result, the provider should not provide cross-border portability of the online content service to such a subscriber under this Regulation.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) Service providers should ensure that their subscribers are properly informed about the conditions of enjoyment of online content services in Member States other than the Member State of residence of the subscribers. The Regulation enables right holders to require that the service provider make use of effective means in order to verify that the online content service is provided in conformity with this Regulation. It is necessary, however, to ensure that the required means are reasonable, adapted to the nature of the online content service concerned and do not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve this purpose. Examples of the necessary technical and organisational measures may include sampling of IP address instead of constant monitoring of location, transparent information to the individuals about the methods used for the verification and its purposes, and appropriate security measures. Considering that for purposes of the verification what matters is not the location, but rather, in which Member State the subscriber is accessing the service, precise location data should not be collected and processed for this purpose. Similarly, where authentication of a subscriber is sufficient in order to deliver the service provided, identification of the subscriber should not be required.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27

(27) As the Regulation will therefore apply to some contracts and rights acquired before the date of its application, it is also appropriate to provide for a reasonable period between the date of entry into force of this Regulation and the date of its application allowing right holders and service providers to make the arrangements necessary to adapt to the new situation, as well as allowing service providers to amend the terms of use of their services. Changes to the terms of use of online content services offered in packages combining an electronic communications service and an online content service made strictly in order to comply with this Regulation should not trigger any right for subscribers under national laws transposing the regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services to withdraw from contracts for the provision of such electronic communications services.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)

(27a) In order to guarantee the proper implementation of the Regulation, to provide the online content service providers, the relevant right holders and the consumers with a national one-stop shop, and to allow the Commission to easily gather and exchange relevant data, the Member States should create or designate a body to follow the implementation of this Regulation. As this Regulation will affect the relationship between every actor on the value chain, it is also necessary that this body is able to receive and offer interpretation on possible disagreements emerging from the way in which the actors of the value chain implement this Regulation.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) In order to ensure the cross-border portability of online content services it is necessary to require that online service providers enable their subscribers to use the service in the Member State of their temporary presence by providing them access to the same content on the same range and number of devices, for the same number of users and with the same range of functionalities as those offered in their Member State of residence. This obligation is mandatory and therefore the parties may not exclude it, derogate from it or vary its effect, except in cases where providing online content service portability is based on the physical constraints of an external product and would involve the online content service provider entering into and concluding separate contractual relations with a third-party manufacturer. Any action by a service provider which would prevent the subscriber from accessing or using the service while temporarily present in a Member State, for example restrictions to the functionalities of the service or to the quality of its delivery, would amount to a circumvention of the obligation to enable cross-border portability of online content services and therefore would be contrary to this Regulation.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point c

(c) "Member State of residence" means the Member State ~~where the subscriber is habitually residing~~, established on the basis of Article 3b, where the subscriber has his or her actual and stable residence to which he or she returns regularly;

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point d

(d) "Temporarily present" means a transitory presence of a subscriber in a Member State other than the Member State of residence determined with the provider of the online content service;

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

(1) The provider of an online content service provided against payment of money shall enable a subscriber who is temporarily present in a Member State to access and use the online content service.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)

Article 3a Opt-in The provider of an online content service provided without payment of money may choose to enable a subscriber who is temporarily present in a Member State to access and use the online content service provided that: (a) it determines and verifies the Member State of residence of its subscribers in accordance with this Regulation; (b) it informs the relevant holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service, as well as its subscribers, within a reasonable time period before enabling such access and use; and (c) it applies the provisions of this Regulation from the moment it enables the cross-border portability for its subscribers.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)

23a. The provider of an online content service shall have the option to carry out a random check on the IP address of a subscriber during his or her contract, in accordance with Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council Nos 95/46/EC1a and 2002/58/EC1b and Regulation (EU) No 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 1c, in so far as that is strictly necessary for the purposes of this Regulation. Considering that for the purposes of the check what matters is not the precise location, but rather the subscriber’s temporary presence in another Member State while accessing the service, data on precise location or any other personal data should not be collected and processed for this purpose. The sole aim of this check should be to establish whether a subscriber is accessing the online content service within or outside his or her Member State of residence, and how often. Where an online content service provider has doubts as to a subscriber’s Member State of residence, it ought to have the power to ask the subscriber to produce a document or documents that prove his or her Member State of residence, in accordance with the list of criteria laid down in this Regulation. In order to be effective, this method of checking should only be used as a long-term method. In addition, if an online content service provider were to choose to rely on this method of checking, it should inform the subscriber of this fact in advance, in accordance with Directives 95/46/EC and 2002/58/EC and Regulation (EU) No 2016/679. ______________________ 1aDirective 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31). 1b Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (OJ L 201, 31.7.2002, p. 37). 1cRegulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1).

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 b (new)

Article 3b Determination of the Member State of residence 1. To enable the access to and use of an online content service for a subscriber who is temporarily present in a Member State, the provider shall determine the Member State of residence of its subscriber when the contract is concluded between them. 2. In order to determine the subscriber's Member State of residence, proof provided by the subscriber, which includes a combination of the following, shall be examined: (a) declaratory means that may include, but not is not limited to, a declaration by the subscriber, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of connection, the postal address or a phone number, and; (b) other means that may include, but is not limited to, an identity card, bank details or recent bills for other relevant services paid by the subscriber in the Member State of residence. 3. The amount and type of proof required by the service provider to determine the Member State of residence shall take into account the nature of the service, be reasonable, proportionate and not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve their purpose. 4. When subscribing to an online content service, the consumer shall be clearly informed of the Member State of residence that was determined for him or her by the service provider, and shall be able to change his or her Member State of residence at any time during his or her subscription, in accordance with paragraph 2. 5. The relevant holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service shall be informed of the proof required by the provider in order to determine the Member State of residence of its subscribers.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Virginie ROZIÈRE, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 c (new)

Article 3c Verification of the Member State of residence 1. The provider of an online content service enabling the access to and use of an online content service for a subscriber who is temporarily present in a Member State shall take effective measures to verify on a regular basis the Member State of residence of its subscribers, and make sure that the access to and use of the service complies with this Regulation. 2. To comply with obligation set out in paragraph 1, the service provider may, inter alia: (a) sample or periodically check the IP address; (b) request proof as set out in Article 3b(2). 3. Should the provider have grounds to reasonably doubt that a subscriber is accessing and using its service in accordance with this Regulation, it shall take further measures to verify the Member State of residence of the subscriber. 4. The verification measures shall be reasonable, proportionate and not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve the purpose of this Regulation. 5. The relevant holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service shall be informed of the verification process followed by the provider to verify the Member State of residence of its subscriber. 6. The provider shall be entitled to request the subscriber to provide the information necessary for the verification of the Member State of residence. If the subscriber fails to provide that information and as a result the provider is unable to verify the Member State of residence as required by this Regulation, the provider shall not, on the basis of this Regulation, enable this subscriber to access or use the online content service when he or she is temporarily present in a Member State.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 b (new)

23b. Holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service should have a right to be informed of the verification process used by the service provider to establish a subscriber’s Member State of residence.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1

The provision of an online content service to, as well as the access to and the use of this service by, a subscriber, in accordance with Article 3(1), shall be deemed to occur solely in the Member State of residence including for the purposes of Directive 96/9/EC, Directive 2001/29/EC, Directive 2006/115/EC, Directive 2009/24 ~~and Directive 2010/13/EU~~.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1

(1) Any contractual provisions including those between holders of copyright and related rights, those holding any other rights relevant for the use of content in online content services and service providers, as well as between service providers and subscribers which are contrary to Articles 3(1) and Articles 3b, 3c and 4 shall be unenforceable.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph 1, holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of online content services may require that the service provider ~~make use of effective means in order to verify that the online content service is provided in conformity with Article 3(1)~~provides information on the measures taken in conformity with Articles 3b and 3c and, if reasonable and strictly necessary, require the implementation of further measures, provided that the required meansures are reasonable and do not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve their purpose.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)

27a. Member States should create or designate a body with responsibility for monitoring the application of this Regulation, in order to guarantee that it is applied properly, to provide the online content service providers, the relevant rights holders and consumers with a national one-stop shop, and to enable the Commission to easily gather and exchange relevant data. In view of the impact of this Regulation along the whole value chain, that body also needs to be able to receive and offer interpretation on possible disagreements that may arise regarding the way in which this Regulation is applied. The body would have an obligation to report regularly to the Commission on disputes that might be caused by the implementation of the Regulation in order to help it to draft its guidelines.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)

(2a) Holders of copyright and related rights or those holding any other rights in the content of online content services may withdraw the provider's licence to use the content they have rights on, should the provider fail to act in accordance with Article 3(1) and Articles 3b and 3c.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely the adaptation of the legal framework so that cross-border portability of online content services is provided in the Union, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States ~~and~~but can ~~therefore~~, by reason of its scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve ~~its~~that objective. Therefore, this Regulation does not substantially affect the way the rights are licensed and does not oblige right holders and service providers to renegotiate contracts. Moreover, this Regulation does not require that the provider takes measures to ensure the quality of delivery of online content services outside the Member State of residence of the subscriber. Finally, this Regulation does not apply to service providers who offer services without payment of money and who do not verify the subscriber's Member State of residence. Therefore, it does not impose any disproportionate costs,

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)

Article 7a Implementation and reporting 1. Member States shall create or designate a body to monitor the proper implementation of this Regulation on its territory and inform the Commission of such body. 2. The body created or designated in accordance with paragraph 1 shall receive and examine complaints regarding abuse or insufficient measures taken by online content service providers or right holders in the Member State in application of this Regulation, in particular for the application of Article 3(1) and Articles 3b, 3c and 5. That body shall also provide an opinion on such complaints. 3. The Commission shall produce guidelines, where necessary, on the basis of the complaints that were reported to the bodies created or designated in accordance with paragraph 1. 4. The Commission shall produce an evaluation report three years after the date of application of this Regulation, assessing its implementation, particularly as regards the notion of temporary presence and the mechanisms concerning the determination and verification of the Member State of residence. The Commission shall accompany this evaluation report with proposals, legislative or not, to improve the implementation of this Regulation.

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

It shall apply from [date: 612 months following the day of its publication].

2016/05/17
Committee: CULT

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)

Article 3a Verification methods 1. Providers of online content services provided in return for payment and providers of online content services provided free of charge who have opted to provide a service in accordance with Article 3a shall use effective verification methods to check the Member State of residence of their subscribers. These methods must be reasonable and must not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve this purpose. 2. The rights holders or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service may authorise access to this content and use of it without verification of the subscriber’s Member State of residence within the context of this Regulation, provided that the online content service provider has obtained the right to incorporate that content in its service in all Member States. 3. In order to comply with the obligation laid down in paragraph 1, online content service providers shall use one or more verification criteria selected from among those listed below. If it considers that it is not possible to identify reliably and officially a subscriber’s Member State of residence using just one of these criteria, the online content service provider may rely on a combination of the verification criteria listed below: (a) an identity card, electronic identity card or any other valid document confirming the subscriber’s Member State of residence; (b) bank details such as the bank account or credit or debit card of the subscriber in his Member State of residence; (c) the place of installation of a decoder or any similar equipment used by the subscriber to access the services concerned; (d) an internet or telephone service supply contract or any similar type of contract linking the subscriber to a Member State; (e) the payment by the subscriber of a licence fee for other services provided in the Member State, such as public service broadcasting; (f) the payment of local taxes, if the information concerned is publicly available. 4. The online content service provider and the rights holders may decide to rely on any other verification criterion that has been agreed in advance between them, provided that this criterion offers at least the same level of security as those listed in paragraph 3 and does not undermine the contract in force. 5. In order to check that a subscriber is making appropriate use of the portability service, an online content service provider shall have the option to rely on a random verification of the subscriber’s IP address during the contract, with the sole aim of identifying whether the subscriber is accessing the online content service within or outside his or her Member State of residence, and how often. Under no circumstances may an online content service provider store or process the data on the precise location of its subscribers. 6. The provider of an online content service shall be entitled to request a subscriber to provide the information needed to verify his Member State of residence. If the subscriber decides not to provide the information required by an online content service provider in order to verify the subscriber’s Member State of residence, the provider shall have the right not to offer him portability of his online content services as provided for in Article 3(1) for so long as he is unable to verify the subscriber's Member State of residence by means of the criteria listed in Article 3b(2). 7. The rights holders or those holding any other rights in the content of an online content service shall be informed of the verification process used by the service provider to verify the Member State of residence of a subscriber.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)

Article 7a Implementation and reporting 1. Member States shall create or designate a body to monitor the proper implementation of this Regulation on its territory and shall inform the Commission of the existence of the body. 2. The body created or designated in accordance with paragraph 1 shall receive and examine complaints regarding abuse or insufficient measures taken by online content service providers or rights holders in the Member State in application of this Regulation, in particular for the application of Article 3b. The body shall also issue opinions on complaints. 3. The Commission shall produce guidelines, where necessary, on the basis of the complaints that were reported to the bodies created or designated in accordance with paragraph 1.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0284(COD)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 b (new)

Article 7b Evaluation The Commission shall produce an evaluation report three years after the date of application of this Regulation to assess its implementation, particularly as regards the notion of temporary presence and the mechanisms concerning the determination and verification of the Member State of residence. The Commission shall accompany this evaluation report with legislative or non- legislative proposals to improve the implementation of this Regulation.

2016/10/03
Committee: JURI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) Further to a dialogue with the requesting Member State, including in the context of the European Semester, the Commission should analyse the request, taking into account the principles of subsidiarity, transparency, equal treatment and sound financial management and determine the support to be provided based on urgency, breadth and depth of the problems as identified, support needs in respect of the policy areas envisaged, analysis of socioeconomic indicators, and the general administrative capacity of the Member State. The Commission should also, in close cooperation with the Member State concerned, identify the priority areas, the scope of the support measures to be provided and the global financial contribution for such support, taking into account the existing actions and measures financed by Union funds or other Union programmes.

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. The Programme shall finance actions with European added value. To that effect, the Commission shall ensure that actions selected for funding are likely to produce results w~~ith~~hich, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, have European added value and shall monitor whether European added value is actually achieved.

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0263(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2

2. Taking into account the principles of subsidiarity, transparency, equal treatment and sound financial management, further to a dialogue with the Member State, including in the context of the European Semester, the Commission shall analyse the request for support referred to in paragraph 1 based on the urgency, breadth and depth of the problems identified, support needs in respect of the policy areas concerned, analysis of socioeconomic indicators and general administrative capacity of the Member State. Taking into account the existing actions and measures financed by Union funds or other Union programmes, the Commission in close cooperation with the Member State concerned shall identify the priority areas for support, the scope of the support measures to be provided and the global financial contribution for such support.

2016/09/20
Committee: REGI

2015/0009(COD)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Davor Ivo STIER, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The EFSI should target projects delivering high societal and economic value. In particular, the EFSI should target projects that promote job creation, long- term growth and competitiveness. The EFSI should support a wide range of financial products, including equity, debt or guarantees, to best accommodate the needs of the individual project. This wide range of products should allow the EFSI to adapt to market needs whilst encouraging private investment in the projects. The EFSI should not be a substitute for private market finance but should instead catalyse private finance by addressing market failures so as to ensure the most effective and strategic use of public money. The requirement for consistency with State aid principles should contribute to such effective and strategic use. Special attention should be paid to the variety of experiences and practices between regions concerning the use of market instruments.

2015/03/06
Committee: REGI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

~~1. Highlights the need for a common definition of ‘public domain’ so as to ensure the widespread dissemination of cultural content across the EU;~~deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giovanni TOTI, Mary HONEYBALL, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, József SZÁJER, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1

– having regard to Articles 4, 26, 34, 114, 118 and 11867 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Giovanni TOTI, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2

– having regard to Articles 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 22 and 52 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Davor Ivo STIER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that the European cultural markets are naturally heterogeneous because of the European cultural and linguistic diversity, notes that this diversity should be considered as a benefit rather than an obstacle to the Single Market;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Davor Ivo STIER, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Stresses that the copyright framework and its effective enforcement, that attain and safeguard a fair remuneration for artists, creators and rightholders play a vital role in encouraging creativity, fostering cultural diversity and ensuring the creation of new creative and cultural content across the Union;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4

– having regard to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and expressly to the Three Steps Test,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Giovanni TOTI, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Constance LE GRIP, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, József SZÁJER, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)

– having regard to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of the 20th October 2005,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Daniel DALTON, Vicky FORD, Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS),

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Believes that the modernisation of copyright rules in the EU would be incomplete without an update of Directive 2000/31/EC on electronic commerce and suggests that the European Commission should consider actions in this direction;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that there is nothing within the current legal framework to prohibit the use of multi-territorial and pan- European licences, calls for an easier access to those optional licences; emphasizes that multi-territorial and pan- European licenses should ensure the fair remuneration of artists, creators and right-holders;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Davor Ivo STIER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)

1h. Emphasizes that any reform of the copyright framework should take as a basis a high level of protection, since rights are crucial to intellectual creation and provide a stable, clear and flexible legal base that fosters investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector, whilst removing legal uncertainties and inconsistencies that adversely affect the functioning of the internal market;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Giovanni TOTI, József SZÁJER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9

– having regard to Directive 2013/37/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information3, __________________ 3 OJ L 175, 27.6.2013, p. 1.deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Stresses that any reform on copyright needs to find the best balance between an efficient protection that provides for a proper remuneration for creators and the objective of the public interest for access to cultural goods and knowledge, and which enables users to access services but at the same time can generate sufficient benefits to promote Europe's cultural content and to generate more content;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

- having regard to Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Recalls that the Union, as well as the Member States, are parties to international treaties on copyright that involve a certain number of obligations and guarantees that should be respected;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13

– having regard to ~~Council~~ Directive ~~92/100/EEC of 19 Nov~~2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December ~~1992~~2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property~~7, __________________ 7~~, which amends Council Directive 92/100/EEC7, __________________ 7 OJ L 346, 27.11.1992, p. 61. OJ L 346, 27.11.1992, p. 61.

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regard to Directive 2001/84/EC on the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Acknowledges the high interest of all stakeholders, including consumers, rightholders and other stakeholders in the copyright reform, as indicated by the responses to the public consultation conducted by the Commission;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Supports the initiatives aimed at enhancing the portability, within the Union, of online services of legally acquired and legally made available content, whilst fully respecting copyrights and the interests of right-holders;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Vicky FORD, Daniel DALTON, Sabine VERHEYEN, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the fact that Member States’ provisions on copyright and related rights vary considerably, and that the exclusivity which copyright grants its owner is, in principle, limited to the territorial boundaries of the Member State where the right has been granted, which may leads to market fragmentation across the EU;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Davor Ivo STIER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Notes that several studies have demonstrated that the cultural and creative sectors, often copyright intensive, already account for up to 4.5% of GDP and up to 8.5 million jobs in the Union and are not only essential for cultural diversity but also significantly contribute to social and economic development;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Giovanni TOTI, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, József SZÁJER, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

- having regard to the Green Paper of the Commission on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union: opportunities and challenges towards a digital single market (COM(2011)427)),

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Vicky FORD, Daniel DALTON, Marc JOULAUD, Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Sabine VERHEYEN, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Catherine STIHLER, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Believes that common effort should be made in combatting copyright infringements in the EU in order to ensure the protection of copyright and fair remuneration for authors of copyrighted online content;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the need to address the problematic boundaries that exist between the reproduction right and the right of communication to the public of works, and to clarify the concept of ‘communication to the public’ in light of the recent case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union;deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 11 September 2012 on the online distribution of audiovisual works in the European Union (2011/2313(INI)),

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

- having regard to the Memorandum of Understanding of 20 September 2011 on key principles on the digitisation and making available of out-of-commerce works, with a view to facilitating the digitisation and making available of books and learned journals for European libraries and similar establishments,

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the ability to link one resource to another is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet, but stresses that under certain circumstances, embedding and linking ~~should not~~can be considered as acts of communication to ~~the~~a new public and th~~us should not be subject to Article 3 of the directive~~erefore can constitute an infringement to copyrights;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses that territorial fragmentation may require users aspiring to offer content- related services across the EU to secure multiple licenses; ~~emphasises the fact~~notes that differences in limitations and exceptions may create additional legal costs and legal uncertainty; recalls that consumers may be denied access to certain content services on geographical grounds;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

~~4. Emphasises the need to update the concept of ‘reproduction of works’ by taking into account the possibilities offered by digital technologies in terms of communication to the public;~~deleted

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises th~~e need to update the concept of ‘reproduction of works’~~at further analysis is necessary to identify measures not enable the current legal framework to the demand for online content by taking into account the possibilities offered by digital technologies ~~in terms of communication to the public~~while ensuring adequate protect to rightholders;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Mary HONEYBALL, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the European legal framework for copyright and related rights is central to the promotion of creativity and innovation, cultural diversity, economic growth and to access to knowledge and information;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Marc JOULAUD, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Urges ~~for the establishment of mandatory limita~~the Commission, when examining whether certain exceptions and ~~excep~~limitations to copyright~~, at least with regard to the most important exceptions, such as those in the field of education,~~ need to be reviewed or harmonized, to ensure that there is a clear cross-border impact and that these exceptions and limitations are proportionate; moreover stresse~~arch and libraries, to allow for the more widespread disse~~s that national circumstances lead to the need for different exceptions and limintation ~~of cultural content across the EU~~s across Member States and thus there is a need for a flexible framework of optional exceptions;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. Urges the Commission to promote a ~~flexible~~higher level of harmonisation that does not weaken copyright protection and balanced framework for exceptions and limitations that does not cause any harm to right holders and that conforms with consumer expectations; emphasises the important role that exceptions and limitations agreed on for public-interest reasons, for the purpose of education and teaching, play in providing access to knowledge as well as in encouraging cultural and societal participation; urges the Commission and the Member States to consider e-books as part of public lending schemes, provided that all necessary agreements with the relevant right holders have been reached beforehand;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the objective of Directive 2001/29/EC ~~on the harmonisation of~~was to adapt the legal framework for certain aspects of copyright and related rights ~~in the information society was aimed at adapting legislation on copyright and related rights to reflect technological development~~so as to take account of technological developments, while ensuring a high level of intellectual property protection and thus guaranteeing the autonomy of creators and performers;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recalls that no Member State has applied, or expressed the desire to apply, all the exceptions listed within the 2001/29/EC Directive, recalls that the facultative list of exceptions results from the variety of national cultural policies and provides a necessary flexibility to the Member States;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Norbert ERDŐS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses that when Member States provide for exceptions and limitations they should ensure that rightholders receive fair compensation and that the exceptions or limitations do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work or subject-matter and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the rightholder;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Acknowledge that Text and data Mining is an emerging and promising practice, in particular for the research field, recalls that innovative licensing solutions are established, but that any preferential treatment should only be applied for non-commercial use;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that exceptions and limitations are properly implemented; calls on Member States, at the same time, to provide all possible information concerning best practices and the obstacles encountered in the implementation of those exceptions and limitations, in order to promote equal access to cultural diversity across borders within the internal market and to improve legal certainty;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Ivan ŠTEFANEC, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT, Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Where exceptions and limitations are provided for, stresses the need for them to be targeted and narrow whilst reflecting modern digital use, and for clarity to the user with regards to the scope and limits of these exceptions and limitations in order to avoid consumer confusion and ensure legal certainty;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the importance of promoting greater interoperability for software, as lack of interoperability hampers innovation and reduces competition in the EU; believes that lack of interoperability may lead to market dominance of one particular product, which in turn stifles competition and limits consumer choice in the EU; recognises that a number of these issues are linked to competition law and highlights that healthy competition along with the protection of intellectual property rights are essential for doing business with legal content.

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2256(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN, Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Notes the need to carry out an in-depth study of exceptions for research and education purposes before contemplating any changes to the relevant Community rules;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Silvia COSTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Recognises the importance of libraries for accessing knowledge and encourages the efforts made by the stakeholders to find voluntary solutions to allow libraries to make use of the digital environment while respecting the rightholders' interests; notes that the technology allow e-lending of e-books in a way that permit an effective control, making it similar to the lending of physical copies, calls the Commission to take this into account;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Recalls that the Marrakech Treaty will require the Union to have a mandatory exception to copyrights for the non- commercial uses to the benefit of persons with a disability, which are directly related to the disability, to the extent required by the specific disability;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights protects ~~the~~ freedom of expression, ~~the~~freedom of information, freedom of the arts and scien~~tific research~~ce, the right to education and ~~the~~ freedom to conduct a business, guarantees protection of personal data and protection of intellectual property, and calls for respect for cultural diversity;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Jean-Marie CAVADA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Highlights the fact that a general flexible exception should be introduced to offer a broader interpretation of the current exceptions based on the analogue model, while taking into account the freedom of expression and information, freedom of the arts and sciences and cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, as referred to in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Unionis not adapted to the European legal system and would undermine the legal certainty necessary for both the consumers and the creative and cultural sectors;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the fact that exceptions and limitations should be applied whilst taking account of the specific individual features of digital and analogue environments and should neither conflict with the normal exploitation of the work nor unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author or rightholder; they are established for very specific reasons and should be strictly interpreted by the Member States;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Encourages the Commission to safeguard the fair balance between all key actors in the creative process and supply chain in the copyright framework whilst fully respecting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, Giovanni TOTI, József SZÁJER, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas Article 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrines the right to property, drawing a distinction between the protection of possessions, on the one hand (paragraph 1), and the protection of intellectual property, on the other (paragraph 2);deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Stresses that digital levies should be moade~~rnised in light of the development of digital technologies~~ more transparent and optimised to safeguard rightholder and consumer rights and by taking into account Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal market;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Suggests a review of the liability of service providers ~~to guarantee the dissemination of culture across the EU and in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights.~~and intermediaries in order to clarify their legal status and liability with regards to copyrights, to guarantee that due diligence is exercised throughout the creative process and supply chain, and to ensure a fair remuneration for creators and rightholders within the Union.;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas decisions on technical standards can have a significant impact on human rights – including the right to freedom of expression, protection of personal data and user security – as well as on access to content10 ; __________________ 10Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 16 December 2014 on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Internet policy and governance – Europe’s role in shaping the future of internet governance’.deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Recognizes that commercial copyright infringing activities pose a serious threat to the functioning of the digital single market and to the development of the legal offer of diversified cultural and creative content online;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Points out that the rapid rate of technological development in the digital market calls for a technologically neutral legislative framework for copyrights;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8c. Takes note of the importance of territorial licenses in the Union, particularly with regards to audiovisual and film production which is primarily based on broadcasters pre-purchase or pre-financing systems;

2015/03/06
Committee: CULT

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Mary HONEYBALL, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas the Directive 2011/77/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 and the Directive 2006/116/EC of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights harmonised the terms of protection of copyright and neighbouring rights by establishing a complete harmonisation of the period of protection for each type of work and each related right in the Member States;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative ofin having conduct~~ing~~ed a consultation on copyright, which attracted great interest from civil society ~~with more than 9 500 replies, 58.7 % of which came from end users11~~, from all creative and cultural sectors, as represented by authors, performers, publishers, producers, broadcasters, collective rights management bodies and other rightholders, and from most of the Member States; __________________ 11 Commission, DG MARKT, Report on the responses to the Public Consultation on the Review of the EU Copyright Rules, July 2014, p. 5. (It would be quite one-sided to refer only to users.)

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes with concern that the vast majority of end-user respondents report facing problems when trying to access online services across the Member States, particularly where technological protection measures are used to enforce territorial restrictioninterest the diversity of uses that technological development offers to consumers which may require further assessment to put forward measures for improving the flexibility of the current legal framework to respond to sustainable and actual demand on online content available across Member States;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes with ~~concern that the vast majority of end-user resp~~interest the increased range of condtent~~s report facing problems when trying to access online services across the Member States, particularly where technological protection measures are used to enforce territorial restrictions~~ that has been available to users lawfully since the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Emphasizes that any reform of the copyright framework needs to find the right balance between user access and fair remuneration for creators and other rightholders and should take as a basis a high level of protection, and develop an evidence-based approach taking into consideration the interest of small and medium-sized enterprises, since rights are crucial to intellectual creation and provide a stable, clear and flexible legal base that fosters investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector, whilst removing legal uncertainties and inconsistencies that adversely affect the functioning of the internal market to the prejudice of consumers and rightholders;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Christian EHLER, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2c. Emphasizes that any reform of the copyright framework should take as a basis a high level of protection, since rights are crucial to intellectual creation and provide a stable, clear and flexible legal base that fosters investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector, whilst removing legal uncertainties and inconsistencies that adversely affect the functioning of the internal market;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Points out that SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors are helping to make the EU more competitive and that they have considerable potential for creating jobs and growth;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Recognizes that commercial copyright infringing activities pose a serious threat to the functioning of the digital single market and to the development of the legal offer of diversified cultural and creative content online;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Acknowledges the necessity for authors and performers to be provided with legal protection for their creative and artistic work; recognises the role of producers and publishers in bringing works to the market, and the need for ~~appropriate remuner~~fair compensation for all categories of rightholders; calls for improvements to the contractual position of authors and performers in relation to other rightholders and intermediaries;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Considers~~Points out that the fintroduction of a single European Copyright Title on the basis of Article 118 TFEU that would apply directly and uniformly across the EU, in accordance with the Commission’s objective of better regulation, as a legal means to remedy the lack of harmonisation resulting from Directive 2001/29/ECancing of creative work and the sharing of risks are underpinned by exclusive rights and freedom of contract; underscores the fact that territorial criteria, including local language use and cultural preferences, are fundamental in terms of potential to attract investment in film and television production and coproduction, and that this ‘ecosystem’ works on the principle of exclusive territorial licensing;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recommends that the EU legislator further lower the barriers to the re-use of public sector information by exempting works produced by the public sector – as part of the political, legal and administrative process – from copyright protection;deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission to safeguard public domain works, which are by definition not subject to copyright protection and should therefore be able to be used and re-used without technical or contractual barriers; also calls on the Commission to recognise the freedom of rightholders to voluntarily relinquish their rights and dedicate their works to the public domain;deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Pavel SVOBODA, Mary HONEYBALL, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Giovanni TOTI, József SZÁJER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

~~7. Calls on the Commission to harmonise the term of protection of copyright to a duration that does not exceed the current international standards set out in the Berne Convention;~~deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that exceptions and limitations in the digital environment ~~should~~cannot be enjoyed ~~without any unequal treatment as compared with those g~~in the same way in the digital environment and in the analogue environment; calls for exceptions and limitations to be tailored to the environment in which they apply; (The two markets do not operanted in the ~~analogue world;~~same way at all.)

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Views with concern the increasing impact of differences among Member States in the implementation of exceptions, which creates legal uncertainty and has direct negative effects on~~Notes the importance of European cultural diversity, which provides opportunities rather than obstacles to the Single Market, and notes that the possible differences in the implementation of exceptions may be handled on a case-by- case basis and market driven solutions , to avoid legal uncertainty and to protect the functioning of the digital single market, in view of the development of cross-border activities;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Supports the initiatives aimed at enhancing the portability, within the EU, of online services of legally acquired and legally made available content, whilst fully respecting copyrights and the interests of right-holders;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)

10d. Recalls that the European cultural markets are naturally heterogeneous because of the European cultural and linguistic diversity, notes that this diversity should be considered as a benefit rather than an obstacle to the Single Market;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Marc JOULAUD, Pavel SVOBODA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)

10e. Takes note of the importance of territorial licenses in the EU, particularly with regards to audiovisual and film production which is primarily based on broadcasters pre-purchase or pre- financing systems;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission to ~~make mandatory~~ensure the proper implementation of all the exceptions and limitations referred to in Directive 2001/29/EC, ~~to allow~~and to provide all necessary information to promote an equal access to cultural diversity across borders within the internal market and to improve legal certainty, while ensuring respect for the principle of subsidiarity, cultural diversity and evidence of clear cross-border impact;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes with interest the development of new forms of use of works on digital networks, in particular transformative uses, and stresses that these should be subject to the same level of copyright protection while keeping the best balance between an efficient protection that provides for a proper remuneration for creators and the objective of the public interest for access to cultural goods and knowledge;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls for the adoption of an open norm introducing flexibility in the interpretation of exceptions and limitations in certain special cases that do not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author or rightholder;deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Urges the European legislator to ensure the technological neutrality and future- compatibility of exceptions and limitations by taking due account of the effects of media convergence; ~~considers, in particular, that the exception for quotation should expressly include audio- visual quotations in its scope;~~

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Stress~~Notes that the ability to ~~freely~~ link from one resource to another is one of the fundamental building blocks of the internet; calls on the EU legislator to make it clear that reference to works by means of a hyperlink is not subject to exclusive rights, as it does not consist in a communication to a new public12 ; __________________ 12 Order of the Court of Justice of 21 October 2014 in Case C-348/13, BestWater International GmbH v Michael Mebes and Stefan Potsch (request for a preliminary ruling from Germany’s Bundesge and underlines that any further legislation must accurately reflect the existing definitions and principles set in the European case law stating that when the hyperlink allows the recipients to circumvent the restrictions on access to the protected work so that can access the protected work which was otherwise unavailable to them, then this constitutes a communication to a new public and it is subject to exclusive ricghts~~hof).~~. __________________ 12

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Constance LE GRIP, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Giovanni TOTI, József SZÁJER, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Suggests a review of the liability of service providers and intermediaries in order to clarify their legal status and liability with regards to copyrights, to guarantee that due diligence is exercised throughout the creative process and supply chain, and to ensure a fair remuneration for creators and rightholders within the European Union.

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Calls on~~Invites the EU legislator to ~~ensur~~recognise that the use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in public places is permitted; shall considered to be in the public domain, where that use is for a non-commercial purpose or scale.

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Giovanni TOTI, József SZÁJER, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Emphasises that the existing limitation on the exception for caricature, parody and pastiche ~~should apply regardless of the purpose~~must be kept to strike a fair balance between the interests and rights of the creators and original characters and the freedom of expression of the user of a protected work who is relying ofn the ~~parodic use;~~ exception for parody, and to avoid uncontrolled abuse12 a ; __________________ 12 a Order of the Court of Justice of 3 September 2014 in Case C-201/13 (J. Deckmyn)

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Stresses the need to enable automated analytical techniques for text and data (e.g. ‘~~Encourages solutions such as the licensing model for text and data mining’) for ~~all purposes, provided that permission to read the work has been acquired~~scientific research purposes;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Pavel SVOBODA, Marc JOULAUD, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Milan ZVER, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Acknowledges that Text and data Mining is an emerging and promising practice, in particular for the research field, recalls that innovative licensing solutions are established, but that any preferential treatment should only be applied for non-commercial use.

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. ~~Calls for the adoption of a mandatory exception allowing libraries to lend books to the public in digital formats, irrespective of the place of acces~~Recognizes the importance of libraries for access to knowledge and encourages the rightholders to identify appropriate market-based solutions to enable libraries to realise their potential in the digital environment while respecting the interests of all stakeholders included consumers;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Mary HONEYBALL, Marc JOULAUD, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Calls on the EU legislator to preclude Member States from introducing statutory licences for th~~Invites the Commission to analyse the necessity of measures, if any, to be implemented by Member States so as to provide compensation tof rightholders for the harm caused by acts made permissible by an exception while they should ensure that rightholders receive fair compensation and that the exceptions or limitations do not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work or subject-matter and do not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the rightholder;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. CRecalls for the adoption of harmonised criteria for defining the harm caused to rightholders in respect of reproductions made by a natural person for private use, and for harmonised transparency measures as regards the private copying levies put in place in some Member States13the European Parliament resolution of February 2014 which underlined the importance of the system of remuneration for private copying in seeking to strike a balance between the interests of consumers and those of rightholders; __________________ 13 As stated in António Vitorino’s recommendations of 31 January 2013 resulting from the latest mediation process conducted by the Commission in respect of private copying and reprography levies.

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Stresses that digital levies should be made more transparent and optimised to safeguard rightholder and consumer rights and by taking into account Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal market;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Marc JOULAUD, Pavel SVOBODA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Mary HONEYBALL, József SZÁJER, Giovanni TOTI, Luis de GRANDES PASCUAL, Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Points out that the rapid rate of technological development in the digital market calls for a technologically neutral legislative framework for copyrights;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Recommends making legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures conditional upon the publication of the source code or the interface specification, in order to secure the integrity of devices on which technological protections are employed and to ease interoperability; considers, in particular, that where the circumvention of technological measures is allowed, technological means to achieve such authorised circumvention must be available;deleted

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2256(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Sabine VERHEYEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)

24e. Calls on the Commission and the legislature to consider solutions for the displacement of value from content to services; stresses the need to adjust the definition of the status of intermediary in the current digital environment;

2015/03/05
Committee: JURI

2014/2250(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises that teachers play a major role in the formation of educational identities and have a ~~significant~~major impact oin ~~aspects of gendered behaviour in school~~determining, at the schooling stage, what behaviour is tolerable and what is not, particularly in the case of girls; recalls that much has still to be done to empower teachers on how to promote gender equality; insists, therefore, on the need to ensure ~~comprehensive initial and ongoing equality training to~~that awareness of equality issues is cultivated among teachers at all levels of formal and informal education; ~~stresses that girls need to have positive female role models in schools and universities;~~

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2250(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Recalls the role of educational teams in assisting and advising families in relation to children’s school careers with the aim of setting them on a path which accords with their skills, talents and tastes; stresses that the stage at which advice on school careers is given is a decisive one and a time when gender stereotypes may find expression, which can lastingly affect girls’ ability to pursue a professional career which will ensure their personal development and emancipation.

2015/04/01
Committee: CULT

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Arnaud DANJEAN, Marc JOULAUD, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Brice HORTEFEUX, Philippe JUVIN, Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Tokia SAÏFI, Anne SANDER, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Underlines the fact that, until the Treaties cease to apply to the United Kingdom, it will continue to participate in all decision-making of the Union throughout its institutions, with the exception of the negotiations and the agreement concerning its own withdrawal; considers that intermediate arrangements will need to be made concerning the UK’s participation in European decision-making, as it will be politically difficult to allow a Member State in the process of leaving to influence decisions ~~affecting~~– particularly European Parliament votes – affecting the future of the Union of which it will soon cease to be a member;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Marc JOULAUD, Brice HORTEFEUX, Philippe JUVIN, Franck PROUST, Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Michel DANTIN, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Tokia SAÏFI, Anne SANDER, Maurice PONGA, Angélique DELAHAYE, Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls for the headquarters of the European Medicines Agency, currently in London, to be moved to another Member State;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Marc JOULAUD, Philippe JUVIN, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Maurice PONGA, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Tokia SAÏFI, Anne SANDER, Constance LE GRIP, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Calls for the establishment of an ‘observer’ status applicable to all United Kingdom representatives, whether elected or unelected, at the EU institutions; the status would enable the representatives to participate in debates until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without taking part in decisions, including votes in the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union; proposes that the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs is given a mandate to set out the arrangements for this ‘observer’ status on behalf of all the institutions;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Arnaud DANJEAN, Marc JOULAUD, Brice HORTEFEUX, Philippe JUVIN, Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Franck PROUST, Michel DANTIN, Angélique DELAHAYE, Maurice PONGA, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Tokia SAÏFI, Anne SANDER, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

34a. Points out that the excessive number and redundancy of emergency resolutions, but also of some subjects which address only the subsidiarity of Members States in the European Parliament’s reports, weaken their political and diplomatic impact;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Anne SANDER, Philippe JUVIN, Brice HORTEFEUX, Alain LAMASSOURE, Franck PROUST, Marc JOULAUD, Renaud MUSELIER, Angélique DELAHAYE, Alain CADEC, Arnaud DANJEAN, Tokia SAÏFI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;deleted

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Anne SANDER, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Tokia SAÏFI, Arnaud DANJEAN, Marc JOULAUD, Brice HORTEFEUX, Franck PROUST, Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Philippe JUVIN, Maurice PONGA, Michel DANTIN, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. ~~Reiterates its call for a singl~~Points out that the seat ofor the European Parliament~~; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the s~~ is in Strasbourg and that its places of work can only be changed by meatns of a~~ll the other EU institutions,~~n agmen~~cies and bodies be determined by Parlia~~dment ~~and~~to the ~~Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure~~Treaty on European Union;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Jérôme LAVRILLEUX, Anne SANDER, Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE, Marc JOULAUD, Brice HORTEFEUX, Franck PROUST, Philippe JUVIN, Michel DANTIN, Maurice PONGA, Renaud MUSELIER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)

39a. Calls, in the interests of transparency, for a study to be carried out on the cost of all the European Union’s agencies and bodies being spread across the Member States; calls for a study to be carried out to calculate the savings that would be made by moving all the European Union’s decentralised bodies to its capital: Strasbourg;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2248(INI)

Constance LE GRIP, Anne SANDER, Alain LAMASSOURE, Franck PROUST, Marc JOULAUD, Renaud MUSELIER, Arnaud DANJEAN, Alain CADEC, Angélique DELAHAYE, Tokia SAÏFI, Philippe JUVIN, Brice HORTEFEUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)

39a. Calls, in the light of the decentralised European Union institutions and the need for citizens to see and feel close to the European Parliament, for the permanent recognition as part of treaty revisions of the fact that the European Parliament has officially and historically had its headquarters in Strasbourg;

2016/11/09
Committee: AFCO

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas cohesion policy is aimed at enhancing economic, social and territorial cohesion, including the reduction and eradication of poverty and exclusion, which calls for the prevention of segregation and for the promotion of equal access and opportunities for all EU citizens, in ~~particular~~cluding for the most marginalised communities;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the objective of social cohesion calls for a European role in policies for the inclusion of marginalised communities, and requires Member States to ~~take responsibility for, and use their competences to change, the situation by implementing as much supportive action as possible~~use their competences in this area to take supportive action and action under transnational cooperation programmes;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas heavy cuts to public services as a consequence of the crisis have led to numerous problems, often resulting in severe budgetary problems for municipalities, leading to a lack of options when dealing with marginalised groups and seeking to improve their inclusion and prevent ~~further~~ segregation;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~more~~a large number of actors at different levels and sectors as well as stakeholders and civil society representatives are involved and often play a determining role, which requires a coherent and well-coordinated approach;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the Roma ~~people are Europe’s largest ethnic minority and~~community is often marginalised, and whereas the term ‘Roma’ its ~~most marginalised community~~used to means different things in different parts of Europe;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Finds regrettable that~~Calls on the Commission ~~failed~~ to provide ~~sufficient~~further information about the take-up of funding opportunities for marginalised communities; asks for an analysis to be carried out that would allow appropriate conclusions to be drawn and the obstacles that are preventing further take-up or the best possible results to be identified;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the horizontal principle of equal opportunities and non- discrimination must be applied, as systemic causes of inequality need to be eradicated; emphasises that understanding and awareness-raising of systemic xenophobia and racism~~, such as anti-Gypsyism,~~ should be a focal point when analysing the roots of exclusion;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that equality between women and men constitutes a funding principle that applies horizontally; considers that, within marginalised communities, women in particular~~ly women,~~ often face multiple forms of discrimination;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Regards access to public services as one of the major goals in addressing the inclusion of marginalised groups; demands athat a debate be launched on shifting from a demand-driven approach to a welcoming service approach in public administrations;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for ~~an alignment and stronger links between~~ National Roma Inclusion Strategies and National Poverty Reduction Strategies to be better coordinated with cohesion policy;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Stresses that the partnership principle must lead to involvement at all levels and needs to be applied by Member States on an obligatory basis; stresses the importance of the implementation of the code of conduct on partnership to ensure equal participation and representation of marginalised communities; is concerned about the poor compliance with the obligatory involvement of partners in accordance with Article 5 of the CPR; ~~calls on the Commission not to authorise payments for programmes that disregard the involvement of partners, including those most concerned;~~

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Finds regrettable that the Commission has accepted partnership agreements that do not include marginalised communities; a~~Asks the Commission to ensure inclusion of marginalised communities in the implementation of projects; suggests recommendations in the European Semester as a suitable tool to promote action to be taken by the Member States;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. IPoints up the importance of an integrated approach which takes account of, in particular, housing, health and education issues; is of the opinion that funds should be used in a more integrated way, including by means of multi-fund programmes, community-led local development, integrated territorial investments and cross- financing as referred to in Article 98(2) of the CPR and achieve synergies with other EU and national funding instruments; calls on the administrations and authorities concerned to seek active cooperation;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Points out that EU-funded projects must have a long-term perspective in order to be effective; warns that implementers may satisfy the criteria set for inclusion on paper, while not investing in the actual needs of beneficiaries and not reaching target groups; calls for qualitative evaluation and monitoring mechanisms; calls on the Commission to put in place proactive and participatory monitoring ~~and supervision~~ of Members States’ actions in the planning and evaluation process of funds;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2247(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Calls on all public stakeholders to carry out awareness-raising of the fact that xenophobia and racism~~, such as anti- Gypsyism,~~ leading to systemic exclusion must be eliminated; suggests educational and anti-discriminatory measures to be considered;

2015/07/24
Committee: REGI

2014/2246(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas there is a growing need for stronger co-ownership of the strategy by the different levels of governance and for shared responsibility at all levels of project implementation; whereas different territorial characteristics should be taken into account and multi-level governance should be enhanced;

2015/07/07
Committee: REGI

2014/2246(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Reiterates its calls to enhance the responsibility and ownership dimensions of the strategy by involving local and regional authorities and other civil society stakeholders and interested parties, from the development of objectives to the implementation of the strategy; insists on the crucial importance of a strengthened governance structure based on multi-level governance, an effective mixed top-down / bottom-up approach and the partnership model of cohesion policy, with a view to ensuring effective capacity to deliver on the objectives;

2015/07/07
Committee: REGI

2014/2246(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to provide information about the role of territorial aspects as factors of economic growth, and demands that the review of the Europe 2020 strategy address territorial impacts and provide guidance on how to address them in consultation with the local and regional authorities;

2015/07/07
Committee: REGI

2014/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas it is justifiable that the goals of cohesion policy have evolved over time and that the policy itself has become more closely linked to the overall policy agenda of the EU; whereas, nevertheless, the original role of cohesion policy – the strengthening of economic, social and territorial cohesion in all EU regions – should be reinforced; whereas cohesion policy ought not to be regarded as merely an instrument to attain the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy and other EU development strategies but also as an investment policy in the territories;

2015/03/16
Committee: REGI

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Points out how important it is that young people acquire digital skills, and that teachers are trained accordingly, since such skills are becoming increasingly important on the European labour market;

2015/01/29
Committee: CULT

2014/2245(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. To this end, calls for the establishment of regional cultural hubs in which towns, cities and regions can work together to promote and preserve their cultural heritage and turn it into an economic asset.

2015/01/29
Committee: CULT

2014/2245(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Warns, however, that the EFSI should not undermine the strategic coherence and long-term perspective of cohesion policy programming; stresses that a re-direction of Structural Funds would be counterproductive, putting their effectiveness – and the development of the regions – at risk; points out that the financial allocations to Member States agreed on under Heading 1b in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014- 2020 cannot be modified in response to potential needs of the EFSI; emphasises that the replacement of grants by loans, equity or guarantees, while having certain advantages, must be carried out with caution, taking into account regional disparities and the diversity of practices and experiences between regions concerning the use of financial instruments; points out that the regions most in need of investment stimuli have low administrative and absorption capacities;

2015/03/16
Committee: REGI

2014/2245(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Expresses its concern because of a too low limit set by the Commission (EUR 5 million) for support by ERDF to small- scale cultural and sustainable tourism infrastructures which is defined as total costs instead of eligible costs, and stresses the strong positive impact that such projects can have on regional development, in terms of socio-economic impact, social inclusion and attractiveness;

2015/03/16
Committee: REGI

2014/2242(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Considers that it is therefore essential to ensure the development and promotion of SUMPs and urban sustainability in all European cities, functional urban areas and regions, including an analysis of needs and objectives for mobility infrastructure, addressing all modes and means of transport in a complementary fashion and in the context of territorial and global spatial development, promoting clean, sustainable, effective and energy-efficient transport, favouring the interconnectedness of urban and periurban areas, and promoting greater self-sufficiency, competitiveness, economic growth, improved road saftey and better conditions of employment;

2015/05/13
Committee: REGI

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas tourism is a key sector of the European economy, which generates over 10 % of the EU’s GDP and employs 9.7 million people if sectors linked to tourism are taken into account, and which is also a source of significant revenue for local economies;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Encourages the development of ecotourism, which is a source of lasting employment, capable of raising the profile of local areas and know-how, and provides economic opportunities for certain regions and sectors which are in difficulties;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that tourism relates to Europe’s cultural and historical heritage, but may also draw on traditional and industrial European know-how, thus helping to raise the profile of local areas and jobs;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Recalls that tourism generates more than 10% of Europe’s GDP, employs 9.7 million people across Europe and is a major source of income for local economies;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Encourages greater use of new technologies at tourist attractions in order to increase interactivity with the public, and in communication relating to these attractions, in order to familiarise the largest possible number of people with Europe's cultural and tourist heritage;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas Europe’s cultural and historic heritage is a major asset for the European tourism industry;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of maintaining and preserving Europe’s cultural and historical heritage in order to prevent its deterioration, assigning priority to the quality of the work performed rather than its cost; stresses, in this context, the role of patronage to contribute to the conservation of the European heritage and to compensate for the decline in the public budgets allocated for the purpose;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Encourages initiatives to connect tourist attractions to one another in order to establish thematic tourist trails on a European, national and local scale, exploiting the complementarity and specificities of the various European tourist attractions so as to provide the best possible experience for tourists;

2015/05/19
Committee: CULT

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Notes the importance of promoting the preservation and maintenance of Europe’s cultural and historic heritage; in this context, stresses the key role played by sponsorship in maintaining Europe’s heritage and helping Member States with this costly task;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission to further promote local areas and specialities by encouraging the showcasing and ensuring the protection of local products such as agricultural and non-agricultural PGIs;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) adhere strictly to the negotiating mandate, in particular the exclusion of audiovisual services from the scope of the negotiations; this exclusion shall not be called into question by the provisions of the future agreement, including those on investment, telecommunications and e- commerce;

2015/03/10
Committee: CULT

2014/2228(INI)

Franck PROUST, Marc JOULAUD, Tokia SAÏFI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) ~~refrain from introducing the ISDS system in the agreement, bearing in mind that the parties to the agreement have fully developed legal systems and procedures~~incorporate a dispute settlement mechanism which offers additional legal protection, is stable and is accessible to EU investors, in particular SMEs, provided that it includes an appeal procedure, meets the democratic requirements of transparency, cannot be misused, does not encroach upon the prerogatives of the national courts and guarantees the Member States’ right to legislate.

2015/03/10
Committee: CULT

2014/2228(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b – point x

(x) to keep in mind, as is clearly set out in the negotiating mandate, that the agreement should not risk prejudicing the Union’s cultural and linguistic diversity, including in the audiovisual and cultural services sector, and that existing and future provisions and policies in support of the cultural sector, ~~in particular in the digital world, are kept out of the scope of the negotiation~~such as the digitisation of European cultural heritage in the digital world, or the system for fixing book prices in publishing are kept out of the scope of the negotiation; adds that these provisions should be the subject of articles in the legal body of the agreement and should not be mentioned only in the preamble or in an annex;

2015/03/30
Committee: INTA

2014/2214(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the participating countries to draw on the experience gained with existing macro-regional and sea basin strategies;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

- having regard to the Communication from the Commission of 10 July 2012, "Smart cities and communities - European innovation partnership", COM (2012) 4701,

2015/03/26
Committee: REGI

2014/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Urges the Commission to systematise and analyse all available data and shared conceptual frameworks (‘urban acquis’) in order to prevent duplication and inconsistencies and provide a clear definition of integrated sustainable urban development and thus identify the common EU objectives in this area;

2015/03/26
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that this statistical data still only gives an approximate indication of the impact of irregularities on the EU budget; believes that the inaccuracy stems from different approaches between and within Member States to the detection ~~and~~, classification and transmission of irregularities;

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Appreciates the efforts made by the Member States to detect, evaluate and/or report irregularities, including fraud and calls on them to step up these efforts; calls on the Member States and their authorities to ensure stronger ex-ante coordination and evaluation and encourage exchanges of good practice in order to prevent, detect and evaluate frauds and irregularities;

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that the misappropriation of EU resources is inadmissible at a time of budgetary constraint and recurrent payment deficits in Europe;

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – introductory part

4. Underlines, in addition, the importance of external assistance and controls in the fight against irregularities and fraud and the introduction of measures to protect the EU budget; supports in this context the anti-fraud strategies recently developed by the EU, and in particular, calls on:

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – point c

(c) the Council to support the establishment of an independent European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). to defend the EU budget and EU funds effectively;

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that cohesion policy reform has led to decentralized EU fund management; calls on Member States to educate and empower new local management authorities to effectively combat fraud and irregularities;

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2155(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Silvia COSTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that it may be useful to allow local management authorities to seek answers directly from the Commission regarding the technical aspects of cohesion policy implementation and thus help them combat any fraud or irregularity; asks the Commission to assess the possibility of establishing a single, direct point of contact between it and the local management authorities to this end.

2014/11/17
Committee: REGI

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Welcomes the EU Action Plan on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and particularly emphasises and supports the application of due diligence throughout the supply chain, the ‘follow the money’ approach, the improvement of IP civil enforcement procedures for SMEs, the targeted communication campaign and the focus on commercial scale IPR infringements;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Catherine STIHLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Recognises that the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is not merely a driver for jobs and growth across the Union but is essential for the proper functioning of the single market, especially in view of factors such as share of EU GDP, employment, and the range of industries affected by IPRs, and plays a key role in stimulating innovation, creativity, competitiveness and cultural diversity;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Silvia COSTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

-1a. Notes that according to the Commission, the cultural and creative sectors, often IPR intensive, already account for up to 4.5% of GDP and up to 8.5 million jobs in the European Union and are not only essential for cultural diversity but also significantly contribute to social and economic development;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the key objective of the aAction pPlan should be to ensure th~~at future measures taken to~~e effective enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are not based solely on data provided by the industry, in particular in the cultural and creative sectors, but on precise, unbiased data documenting IPR infringements; emphasises that the duty of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) to generate reliable data which allow an analysis of the real impact of infringements on the industry should be part of the ten-point action planwhich plays a key role in stimulating innovation, creativity, competitiveness, growth and cultural diversity;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)

- having regard to the report submitted by OHIM and the EPO in September 2013, entitled ‘Intellectual property rights intensive industries: contribution to economic performance and employment in the European Union’,

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses that the key objective of the action plan should be to ensure that future measures taken to enforce Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are not based solely on data provided by the industry, in particular in the cultural and creative sectors, but on precise, unbiased data documenting IPR infringements; eEmphasises that the duty of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) to generate reliable data which allow an analysis of the real impact of infringements on the industry should be part of the ten-point action plan;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Silvia COSTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that while data on the number and type of intellectual property rights in existence is relatively easy to collect and analyse, studies on the scope and scale of IP infringements and their relation to criminality have been more difficult; to this end emphasises the important role played by the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights in providing data, tools and databases to support the fight against IP infringement;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses that in a time of financial crisis when funding for culture suffers from severe cuts, IPR enforcement is often a primary source of revenue for artists and creators; stresses therefore that attaining and safeguarding a fair remuneration for artists, creators and right holders should be one of the key objectives of the Action Plan;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Stresses the importance of ensuring the application of due diligence throughout the supply chain, including the digital supply chain and all the key actors and operators in it, such as creators, artists and right holders, producers, intermediaries, internet service providers, online sales platforms, end users and public authorities;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Emphasises the importance of improving IP civil enforcement procedures for SMEs and individual creators, as they play a key role in the creative and cultural sectors and often do not have the capacity to enforce their rights given the complexity, cost and length of such procedures;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Supports the launching of targeted communication campaigns to raise awareness on the economic and potential health and safety risks associated with commercial scale IPR infringements, particularly amongst the younger generations growing up in the digital era;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Silvia COSTA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Notes that, in preventing commercial scale IPR infringements, it is also important to enlarge the legal offer of diversified cultural and creative content online and to increase its accessibility; to this end calls on the Commission to take actions to support such efforts and promote investment in new competitive business models that broaden the legal offer of creative and cultural content and restore consumer trust and confidence online;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for the action plan to be implemented quickly, so that, if necessary, the measures needed to enforce IPR, in particular in the cultural and creative sector, can be revised in the near future to take account of real needs;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Points out that in the cultural and creative sector in particular cooperation, including on the basis of self-regulation, between rights holders, authors, platform operators, intermediaries and final consumers should be encouraged with a view to detecting IPR infringements at an early stage; emphasises that the effectiveness of such self-regulation must be assessed by the Commission in the near future and that further legislative measures may be necessary;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Emphasises that in the cultural and creative sector payment service providers should be involved in the dialogue with a view to reducing the profits generated by IPR infringements in the online sphere;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Emphasises the threat and damage to consumer health and safety the purchase of IPR infringing goods may result in~~Stresses that IPR infringing products not only cause the direct loss of revenue to legitimate businesses but also lead to direct and indirect job losses, to reputational damage and to increased enforcement costs whilst often having links to organised crime and posing potential health and safety risks; thus compliments the Commission on its engagement with consumers, in particular those of the younger generation, via public information campaigns and other relevant means, and encourages it to continue; welcomes, in particular, the efforts of the Observatory located within the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) that are aimed at raising awareness among consumers of the benefits of choosing IPR respecting products and facilitating access to such products;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Notes that the system for the notification and removal, one URL at a time, of content that infringes IPR, has practical limitations in view of the speed with which the content in question can be made available again; calls, therefore, on operators in this sector to start thinking about how to make the notification and removal system more effective in the long term;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Sabine VERHEYEN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that, in Member States where this is permitted by law, the blocking by a court ruling of internet sites which allow IPR infringements has practical limitations in the long term;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Notes that, where IPR infringements are committed by the public, this is sometimes because it is hard or impossible to find the desired content offered legally; calls, therefore, for a wide range of user- friendly legal offers to be developed and promoted to the public;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Silvia COSTA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that in the interests of innovation, creativity and competitiveness, it is crucial t~~hat the IPR infrastructure is transparent and that full information is available to the public and to all other actors concerned~~o achieve a meaningful enforcement of IPR through a fully transparent, holistic, balanced and flexible system that can react rapidly to the evolving challenges that face the EU knowledge economy in the digital era;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Catherine STIHLER

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Looks forward to receiving information on existing national initiatives addressing IP civil enforcement for SMEs by the end of 2015; welcomes the forthcoming Green Paper on the need for future Union action based on the best practice found in nationally financed schemes assisting SMEs to enforce their IP rights; emphasises that for SMEs, clear and manageable structures for the enforcement their IPR are crucial;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Emphasises that the duty of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) to generate reliable data which allow an analysis of the real impact of infringements on the industry should be part of the ten-point action plan;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses in particular that in order to achieve a meaningful enforcement of IPR, full information should include a clear indication of the type of IPR (for example patent, trademark, copyright), the ~~status of its validity~~ identity of the owners and where relevandt the ~~identity of the owners~~status of its validity;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that in order to stimulate innovation and competitiveness in knowledge-based sectors in the Union, IPR enforcement ~~should not prevent open~~goes hand in hand with the promotion of research and knowledge sharing, ~~which are also~~ identified as key elements in the ‘Global Europe’ and ‘Europe 2020’ strategies;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to study the feasibility of a European label indicating to the public which internet sites are considered free of commercial IPR infringements;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Further notes the inclusive stakeholder consultation proposals on applying EU due diligence throughout the supply chain, including providers of payment services, to prevent IP infringements, and asks that the outcome of the consultations and the voluntary EU due diligence scheme be presented to Parliament on an annual rather than biennial basis;

2015/02/25
Committee: IMCO

2014/2151(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises the need for preventive measures and precise detection systems that lead to the swift interruption of commercial scale IPR infringing activities;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that the monies generated by enforcing IPR represent an important source of outside funding for research projects and thus a driving force for innovation and development and cooperation between universities and firms;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of sector- based agreements and good practice guides to combat IPR infringements; calls on operators in the industry to exchange information about platforms giving access to content that infringes IPR, and to take coordinated measures to reduce the income from such content or platforms;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Insists that remedies be put in place for platforms adversely affected by any measure taken to combat commercial infringements of IPR by operators in the sector on the basis of exchange of information;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Notes that some ‘cyberlocker’ platforms pay their users on the basis of the number of registered downloads of their files, which is an incitement to disseminate content that infringes IPR; calls, therefore, on the Member States to take steps to prevent such practices;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Points out that ‘cyberlocker’ platforms are one of the main hubs for IPR infringements, from which they indirectly derive income via advertising and/or subscriptions;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Recalls that potential health and safety risks of marketed goods are a very serious issue; stresses in this context that the quality of a product is a diffe~~Stresses that IPR infringing products not only cause the direct loss of revenue to legitimate businesses but also lead to direct and indirenct ~~issue from the status of IPR and whether there has been an infringement, and thus should be dealt with separately.~~job losses, to reputational damage and to increased enforcement costs whilst often having links to organised crime and posing potential health and safety risks;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Recalls that potential health and safety risks of marketed goods which infringe IPR are a very serious issue; stresses ~~in this context that the quality of a product is a different issue from the status of IPR and whether there has been an~~that a reduction in the degree of acceptance of IPR infringements in the medium and long term can only be achieved by providing young people with media skills training which seeks to make them aware of the legal and economic implications of IPR infringement,s and ~~thus should be dealt with separately~~draws their attention to the risks referred to above.

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages the Commission when addressing whether there is a need to adapt the IPR enforcement legislation to the digital era to safeguard the fair balance between all key actors in the supply chain whilst fully respecting the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, namely the protection of personal data and respect for private life, the right to property and the right to access to justice;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Recalls that several other issues of IPR enforcement not included in the Action Plan were identified in the consultation process on the civil enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights carried out by the Commission from 2012-2013, including the difficulties in identifying infringers and alleged infringers, the role of intermediaries in assisting the fight against IPR infringements and the attribution of damages in IPR disputes; thus recalls that the Action Plan is only a starting point in securing the enforcement of IPR;

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emma McCLARKIN, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on the Commission to consider all possible options to address the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, including the proposal of more concrete legislative actions.

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to study the feasibility of a European label indicating to the public which internet sites are considered free of commercial IPR infringements.

2015/01/26
Committee: CULT

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Involving all actors in the supply chain, both on line and off line

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that applying due diligence throughout the supply chain would improve the business environment and contribute to preventing infringing goods from entering the market; stresses, however, that the cost-benefit ratio of qualitative auditing schemes should be well assessed and that providing support to SMEs should be considered , in the context of commercial activity, applying due diligence on the part of the various parties throughout the supply chain is a key element in combating infringements of IPR and protecting consumers to the maximum, and would improve cooperation between undertakings and contribute to preventing infringing goods from entering th~~at respec~~e market;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the need to address, more specifically, the younger generation by means of appropriate campaigns to raise awareness, bearing in mind that, as a recent survey of perceptions of intellectual property has revealed, it is that particular generation that is least respectful of intellectual property rights;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Stresses the importance of initiatives to assess and monitor the development of knowledge of young people’s understanding and perception of intellectual property in order to better understand their needs and to define the most appropriate action to take;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes at the same time that consumers should be better able to identify infringing offers so that they can decide not to proceed with a given purchase; deplores the fact that the Commission’s action plan does not include any action designed to improve consumers’ ability to identify infringing goods and contents, and calls on the Commission to reflect further on the development of specific tools, guides, including labelling, based on the experiences gathered by the Commission and the European Observatory on ~~Counterfeiting and Piracy~~Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, especially with regard to the sharing of best practices;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Believes that ~~the lack of a competitive supply of non-infringing products and content makes it difficult to deter consumers from buying unlawful goods or using unlawful content~~infringements of IPR hamper the development of new economic models whose competitiveness is damaged by illicit offers an abusive practices; takes the view that sufficient progress has not been made in this area, and reiterates its demand that the Commission and Member States ~~put more pressure on th~~support the cultural and creative industry toin developing, in all Member States, licit offers that are both diversified and attractive;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2151(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Stresses the importance of close cooperation and exchanges of information, as well as the importance of appropriate training of customs authorities, market surveillance authorities and judicial authorities;

2015/03/27
Committee: JURI

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that cultural heritage projects are often examples of innovative and sustainable economic activities which attract more people, create jobs and develop the business and research capabilities of small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs);

2015/04/14
Committee: REGI

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission ~~to reconsider~~, after consulting the Member States and regions, to consider increasing the figure of EUR 5 million, given that it could detract from Member States’ ability to disburse spend ERDF funds effectively;

2015/04/14
Committee: REGI

2014/2149(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point d

(d) ~~reconsider the EUR 5 million~~increase the benchmark in relation to cultural heritage projects submitted in the framework of the small-scale infrastructure action11 above the EUR 5 million currently envisaged, following consultation with the Member States and the regions ; __________________ 11 See: Article 3.1(e) of Regulation No 1301/2013 (Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the European Regional Development Fund and on specific provisions concerning the Investment for growth and jobs goal and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006).

2015/03/31
Committee: CULT

2014/2149(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the European institutions and the Member States to promote and support soft travel (walking, horse-riding and cycling tours) as a way of opening up new opportunities for cultural and nature- based tourism;

2015/03/31
Committee: CULT

2014/2149(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Points out that cultural heritage is one of the main sources of tourism, both within and outside Europe, which is one of the EU’s strong economic sectors; stresses, therefore, the importance of properly maintaining and enhancing this heritage, as well as the potential offered by the use of new technologies for combining the various elements of the European cultural heritage;

2015/03/31
Committee: CULT

2014/2149(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses the importance for European tourism of Unesco-designated tangible or intangible cultural heritage and natural heritage;

2015/03/31
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the European film industry is one of the world’s largest producers with 1500 films released in 2014, but is characterised by a heterogeneous structure both in terms of funding and type of production;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas European films are characterised by their quality, originality and diversity but suffer from limited promotion and distribution across the Union whilst facing intense international competition and difficulties in being exported beyond the Union;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the circulation of European non-national films in Member States remains weak despite the large number of films produced each year, while non- European productions are widely distributed within the Union;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

(This amendment does not apply to the English version)

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Helga TRÜPEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas a better organisation of the release windows would maximise the potential audience, while making the unauthorised consumption of films less attractive;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas Article 13.1 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) obliges Member States to ensure that on-demand service providers promote European works;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Helga TRÜPEL

Motion for a resolution
Recital Gc (new)

Gc. whereas this provision has been implemented in a diverse manner with different levels of legal requirements and has led to providers establishing themselves in those Member States with the lowest requirements;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marc JOULAUD, Sabine VERHEYEN, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Mircea DIACONU, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Krystyna ŁYBACKA, Helga TRÜPEL, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas it is essential to guarantee funding for the digitisation, preservation and online availability of film heritage and related materials and to establish European standards on preservation of digital films;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Encourages the European film industry to pursue the development of new business models and distribution channels to improve the cross-border availability of European films~~, thus~~ in the Union and, beyond that, to allow~~ing~~ viewers across the Union to have access to an ever greater range of films across a growing number of platforms; suggests in this regard that the European film industry should be inspired by practices outside the EU and connect the various existing platforms to make them more complementary;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that the effectiveness of the fight against the unauthorised consumption of films requires, inter alia, the establishment of legal VOD services and high-quality online services, which are easy to use, featuring a broad and diverse catalogue of films available in several languages with subtitled versions;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Sabine VERHEYEN, Marc JOULAUD, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Helga TRÜPEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Emphasises that in order to maximise the potential audience, subtitled versions of films should be available in VOD before the dubbed versions, as the production process is shorter than dubbing;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the importance of recently adopted preparatory action on 'Crowdsourcing subtitling to increase the circulation of European works' and the future work by the Commission to implement this action;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Suggests that there is a need to promote and support European coproductions and that the increase in such productions may result in the wider distribution of European films all across Europe;

2015/01/30
Committee: CULT

2014/2148(INI)