28 Amendments of Stelios KOULOGLOU related to 2023/2051(INL)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas the CCS also comprise micro, small and medium-sized organisations;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas the CCS also comprise micro, small and medium-sized organisations;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas mobility is an important element of professional artistic activity and career development and contributes to increasing income and reducing precariousness; whereas artists frequently move between Member States; whereas artistic mobility entails specific challenges, in particular in relation to social protection and taxation, which require specific measures; whereas most of the current funding instruments supporting mobility are not sufficiently adapted to the specific features of the sectors, such as seasonality and bureaucratic obstacles regarding mutual recognition of artistic education among Member States;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas mobility is an important element of professional artistic activity and career development and contributes to increasing income and reducing precariousness; whereas artists frequently move between Member States; whereas artistic mobility entails specific challenges, in particular in relation to social protection and taxation, which require specific measures; whereas most of the current funding instruments supporting mobility are not sufficiently adapted to the specific features of the sectors, such as seasonality and bureaucratic obstacles regarding mutual recognition of artistic education among Member States;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Whereas the CCS is in need for more - EU, public and private - funding, especially after the COVID19 pandemic and the increased energy costs;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. Whereas the CCS is in need for more - EU, public and private - funding, especially after the COVID19 pandemic and the increased energy costs;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. Whereas the CCS working conditions need to be improved drastically;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. Whereas the CCS working conditions need to be improved drastically;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. Whereas artists and cultural and creative workers from vulnerable groups such as women, young people, people with disabilities, representatives of LGBTQIIA+ and people with vulnerable socio-economic background, have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers and are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic and any crisis;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)
Recital J c (new)
Jc. Whereas artists and cultural and creative workers from vulnerable groups such as women, young people, people with disabilities, representatives of LGBTQIIA+ and people with vulnerable socio-economic background, have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers and are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic and any crisis;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States to ensure that the recognition as artist or CCS worker facilitates coverage under existing social protection schemes for both self- employed and workers; calls in particular for including protection against life risks such as unemployment for workers and the termination of activity for self- employed, and for leaving insurance benefits or comparable assets for old-age provision untouched in the case of necessary social transfer payments; highlights that the recognition as artist should also include support for micro- enterprises in the event of impending insolvency;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on Member States to ensure that the recognition as artist or CCS worker facilitates coverage under existing social protection schemes for both self- employed and workers; calls in particular for including protection against life risks such as unemployment for workers and the termination of activity for self- employed, and for leaving insurance benefits or comparable assets for old-age provision untouched in the case of necessary social transfer payments; highlights that the recognition as artist should also include support for micro- enterprises in the event of impending insolvency;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Condemns Member States that consider artist degrees as equivalent to secondary education ones;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Condemns Member States that consider artist degrees as equivalent to secondary education ones;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the need for transparency on the part of online platforms so that they provide to Collective Management Organizations at least the minimum of information they need in order to effectively ensure authors’ fair remuneration;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the need for transparency on the part of online platforms so that they provide to Collective Management Organizations at least the minimum of information they need in order to effectively ensure authors’ fair remuneration;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to apply best practices in order to ensure fair and proportionate remuneration to authors and performers; considers it necessary for progress in copyright contract law between authors and collecting societies and rights exploiters to be identified and checked across Europe in order to prevent a lack of transparency and buy-out clauses;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to apply best practices in order to ensure fair and proportionate remuneration to authors and performers; considers it necessary for progress in copyright contract law between authors and collecting societies and rights exploiters to be identified and checked across Europe in order to prevent a lack of transparency and buy-out clauses;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that sustainable public funding is fundamental to ensuring a healthy cultural and creative ecosystem; asks the Member States to set a minimum spending target of 23 % of government public expenditure in the cultural and creative sectors, which still generates up to 4% of the GDP;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on Member States and the Commission for the promotion of collective bargaining with transparent and open public consultation procedures and regrets that contractual freedom often leaves cultural creators in a weak and isolated position when negotiating their contracts with producers;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned by the increasingly limited space devoted to artistic education and sports in national curricula in primary and secondary education; notes with concern that financial barriers often hinder access to higher education in the arts for young people coming from a disadvantaged background; calls on Member States to ensure equitable access to artistic education, in particular higher education; calls on Member States to provide free and tailored education to artists and cultural and creative workers;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to establish a code of conduct or some kind of artistic procedures’ certifications in order to safeguard, at European-level, Occupational Safety and Health against sexual and any other harassment, violence, bullying or any other forms of abuse, in the CCS and regarding cultural production and performance;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Insists that best practices for preventing sexual assaults in the workplace, such as awareness officers or teams on film sets, should be exchanged across Europe and that regulations should be applied in a binding manner;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Insists that criminalizing artistic and cultural creation is not acceptable; notes that strong advertising pressure is also retaining artistic freedom;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Make sure that AI will not take away jobs from the CCS sector;
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. At least 2% of the general EU budget and Next Generation EU programs need to be given to the CCS sector for post-pandemic recovery and for managing the energy crisis;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Suggests that the Commission examine the introduction of a fair work seal, since collective agreements in the various professional groups and types of employment in the CCS are not sufficient to ensure decent work; With a seal on cultural products, such as concerts, computer games, theater performances, books, etc., consumers have a powerful choice to demand good payment for artistic activity and thereby also register for the acceptance of artistic creation in all available forms; Such a seal can be a real European measure to improve an EU framework for artistic work, which at the same time leads to improvements in the Member States;
Amendment 484 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 2 – indent 5 a (new)
- - making visible the transparency of compliance with social and creativity- recognizing standards in employment contracts and copyright contract law, for example through the introduction of a Europe-wide fair work seal on all cultural products;