7 Amendments of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2016/0151(COD)
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to empower viewers, including parents and minors, in making informed decisions about the content to be watched, it is necessary that audiovisual media service providers provide sufficient information about content that may impair minors’ physical, or mental or moral development. This could be done, for instance, through a system of content descriptors indicating the nature of the content. Content descriptors could be delivered through written, graphical or acoustic means.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
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 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 visual or hearing impairment as soon as possible.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Product placement should not be admissible in news and current affairs programmes, consumer affairs programmes, religious programmes and programmes with a significant children’s audienceprogrammes. In particular, evidence shows that product placement and embedded advertisements can affect children’s behaviour as children are often not able to recognise the commercial content. There is thus a need to continue to prohibit product placement in programmes with a significant children’s audiencechildren’s programmes and family programmes, such as musical shows or sport events. Consumer affairs programmes are programmes offering advice to viewers, or including reviews on the purchase of products and services. Allowing product placement in such programmes would blur the distinction between advertising and editorial content for viewers who may expect a genuine and honest review of products or services in such programmes.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) There are new challenges, in particular in connection with video-sharing platforms and social media, on which users - particularly minors - increasingly consume audiovisual content. In this context, harmful content and hate speech storedavailable 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.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c
Directive 2010/13/UE
Article 1– paragraph 1– point b
Article 1– paragraph 1– point b
b) ‘programme’ means a set of moving images with or without sound constituting an individual item within a schedule or a catalogue established by a media service provider, including feature- length films, videos of short duration, sports events, situation comedies, documentaries, children’s programmes, entertainment and reality programmes, and original drama;";
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 6
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 violence or, hatred or terrorism, 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.;
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Directive 2010/13/EU
Article 33 – paragraph 2
Article 33 – paragraph 2
By [date – no later than four years after adoption] at the latest, and every three years thereafter, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and Social Committee a report on the application of this Directive The report shall assess the effectiveness of the self- and co-regulation practices in all Member States, in particular in the light of advertising practices, when targeting children and families. If the report concludes that self-regulatory codes of conduct regarding audiovisual commercial communications, e.g. for unhealthy food and sweetened beverages, have not deliver expected results in minimising exposure of children and minors, the Commission shall come up with a proposal of regulation on this specific matter.