Activities of Dace MELBĀRDE related to 2022/2038(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Amendments (3)
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Recognizes the importance of the introduction of a minimum VoD quota and considers that ensuring its effective implementation is a priority; calls on the European Commission, Member States and audiovisual regulators to proceed to a detailed monitoring of its concrete implementation in all Member States as well as to assess its impact on the geographical, cultural, linguistic and artistic diversity of audiovisual works available to the European audience, including authored works; considers that equating a season of a series with one title should be assessed in due time in light of the objective of ensuring a balanced representation of cinematographic works and TV series;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Stresses the importance of prominence, promotion and discoverability of European works and that they should be the subject of more attention and proposals, on the continuity of the work done by ERGA on the matter; calls on the Commission to present guidelines on how Member States can ensure the prominence and the discoverability of European works, with a view to improving access to a greater cultural and linguistic diversity, and suggests that these guidelines may define the terms of prominence and discoverability; stresses the need for access to online consumption data in order to properly evaluate the impact of the prominence obligation in particular;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13 c. Insists on the importance of the article 13.2 on the possibility to introduce financial obligations (contributions to funds or direct investment obligations) on the basis of a targeted derogation to the country-of-origin principle, as Member States retain full competence over their cultural policies including for the audiovisual sector; highlights that financial obligations are instrumental in stimulating private investments and public support policies to the benefit of European works and to sustain local audiovisual ecosystems in a changing market context; encourages Member States implementing financial obligations to make sure that they benefit European independent producers and authors as well as different audiovisual genres and the linguistic expressions;