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Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)

(12a) Media services of general interest play a unique role in the internal market by providing access to a plurality of views and reliable sources of information to consumers. However, some Member States have adopted various national rules related to the prominence of media services of general interest, while others have no rules at all. Divergent approaches at national level, tailored only to local contexts, have created fragmentation in the internal market, causing legal uncertainty, market fragmentation, an unfair level-playing field and increasing compliance costs for media companies. In addition, the internal media market has become increasingly digital as media services are provided and accessed through the internet, which is by nature cross-border. In the last decade, European media companies have faced fierce competition from global online platforms. While such platforms have become gateways to media content, their business models tend to surface, promote and amplify content that provides the best economic outcome, and is thus often to the detriment of media content of general interest providing reliable information to consumers. The corresponding shift of advertising revenues online has drained financial resources from the traditional media sector affecting its financial sustainability, and in turn the quality and diversity of content on offer. This trend indicates how the market is failing to provide sustainable returns for media content of general interest and quality journalism, which are public goods, provide for reliable information sources and help counter disinformation. In order to prevent market failure, ensure technological neutrality and consumer protection and guarantee consumers to have access to a broad range of reliable information sources, it is necessary to have a single legal framework for prominence rules for general interest content. In order to prevent legal fragmentation, the technical prominence requirements for user interfaces and devices should be harmonised, allowing for harmonised product design for the European single market and at the same time ensure access to general interest content. This is without prejudice to Member States competences to define at national level what content offers qualify as general interest content. To ensure that prominence rules are adaptable to technological progress and changes in user behaviour, they should be based on general principles, determined at national level, taking into account the structure of the national market and involving all relevant stakeholders.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45

(45) Audience measurement has a direct impact on the allocation and the prices of advertising, which represents a key revenue source for the media sector. ~~It is a crucial tool to evaluate the performance of media content and understand the preferences of audiences in order to plan the future production of content.~~ Accordingly, media market players, in particular media service providers, right holders and advertisers, should be able to rely on objective audience data stemming from transparent, unbiased and verifiable audience or consumption and performance measurement solutions. However, certain new players ~~that have emerged in the media ecosystem~~such as very large online platforms and very large search engines provide their own measurement services without making available information on their methodologies. This could result in incomparable measurement systems and information asymmetries among media market players and in potential market distortions, to the detriment of equality of opportunities for media service providers in the market.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14

(14) ‘'audience measurement’ means the activity of collecting, interpreting or otherwise processing data about the number and characteristics of users of media services, programs or online platforms, to determine the audience size, reach and frequency for the purposes of decisions regarding advertising allocation or prices or ~~the related plann~~regarding the planning, buying, selling, production or distribution of content;

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new)

2. In line with paragraph 1, and in view of ensuring better consumer protection, reducing obstacles in the internal market for media services, ensuring technological neutrality and aiming at giving consumers access to a broad range of information sources as provided by paragraph 1, Member States shall take measures to ensure the appropriate prominence of media services of general interest, based on general principles. This Regulation, Directives 2010/13/EU and 2000/31/EC and Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 shall not affect the competence of Member States and shall be without effect to existing prominence measures.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. To secure impartiality in measurement, audience measurement should be carried out by independent third parties or self-regulatory bodies. This should be without prejudice to media services providers conducting their own measurements in relation to their content and services.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. The data shared with an independent third party or an independent body for audience measurement shall be as granular as the data provided by the rest of the media market, which includes non-aggregated data.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. It is prohibited to engage in any behaviour that undermines effective compliance with the obligations in paragraph 1b whether that behaviour is of a contractual, commercial, technical nature, or by making compliance with legal obligations more burdensome than for its own services.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Geoffroy DIDIER

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2

2. ~~Without prej~~Providers of proprietary audience ~~to the protection of undertakings’ business secrets, prov~~measurement systems developed without market governance or outsiders of pEurop~~rietary audience measurement system~~ean or national industry standards agreed by the relevant national self- regulatory bodies shall provide, without undue delay and free of costs, to media service providers ~~and~~, advertisers, and right holders as well as to third parties authorised by media service providers ~~and~~, advertisers or right holders, accurate, detailed, comprehensive, intelligible and up-to-date information on the data collected and on the methodology used by their audience measurement systems. Right holders should also have access to consumption and performance data collected regarding their programs. This provision shall not affect the Union’s data protection and privacy rules.

2023/04/13
Committee: IMCO

Activities of Geoffroy DIDIER related to 2022/0277(COD)

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