6 Amendments of Markus BUCHHEIT related to 2022/2038(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas the Secretariat of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) is staffed and hosted by the Commission diminishing its independence;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas only the strict maintenance of responsibilities and competences of the Member States can guarantee the success of the European media policy;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
A c. Whereas media policy is not mentioned in the relevant catalogues of exclusive or shared competences assigned to the EU under primary Union law;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of the proper implementation of the Directive; regrets that not all Member States have done this and encourages them to do so urgently;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that the strategy of the Commission to harmonise legislation in the field of media, a policy area where the EU clearly lacks competences, by feigning internal market considerations is unacceptable; emphasises that the concept of freedom of establishment has to be interpreted narrowly and must by no ways serve as a general authorisation to legislate in other policy areas for which there is no clear competence; notes that any regulatory approach that would limit entrepreneurial freedom in the internal market would not be compatible with the internal market concept of Article 26 TFEU, which aims at progress towards cross-border freedom of development;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of a well functioning internal media market; underlines that the proposed European media freedom act aims to further enhance cooperation between the national regulators by establishing a European media board; stresses that independence and adequate resources must be guaranteed in order to fulfil these new responsibilities; insists on the importance of avoiding overlaps between the two instruments in order to preserve their effectiveness.is a political appropriation of the media by the Commission;