Activities of Monica SEMEDO related to 2023/2003(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027
Amendments (38)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 15 September 2020 on ‘Effective measures to ‘green’ Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps’ (2019/2195(INI));
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027 features an overall budget increase of about 68 % compared to its predecessor; whereas this increase significantly depreciates due to the constantly rising inflation rate9a; whereas the overall budget has been frontloaded with a third of the financial envelope committed in the years 2021 and 2022 to address, inter alia, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic; _________________ 9a https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/product s-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230309-2.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Creative Europe plays a key role in promoting the arts, culture, audiovisual content and in supporting high-quality media, especially through supporting grass-roots projects, small companies and individual artists; whereas it contributes to the Union's strategy for international cultural relations with the aim of ensuring its long-term impact through a people-to-people approach involving cultural networks, civil society and local organisations;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas the Creative Europe programme benefits individual creators in Europe, such as artists, authors and performers;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the programme acknowledges the importance of the music sector as an essential component of Europe’s cultural diversity, which can benefit from the horizontal approach under the Culture strand; whereas during the period 2021-2022 the Music Moves Europe Initiative devoted EUR 5 million to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation and diversity of Europe’s music sector;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas digital technologies, including AI, influence all aspects of cultural life, as well as the work of artists, cultural workers, organisations and institutions, and can help them facilitate interaction with different audiences and opening access to their work; whereas various EU funding programmes and initiatives beyond Creative Europe are supporting the digital transition of the sector; whereas digitalisation has enormous potential and has changed the ways in which the CCSI create, produce and share content, boosting opportunities to grow and increase cultural participation; whereas digitalisation also poses challenges in terms of diversity, adequate remuneration and access to culture;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas, in light of the crucial role of the Creative Europe desks in promoting and informing the cultural and creative sectors about the programme, cooperation and exchanges between the Creative Europe desks and the Commission must be strengthened;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas Creative Europe plays a strategic role for the European Union, its values and its soft power, by fostering partnerships between European cultural and creative players, enabling the creation of new works, and promoting European cultural diversity internationally;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the new generation of the Creative Europe programme continues to generate significant interest within the cultural, creative and, audiovisual and news media sectors, with an increasing number of applications received under the three strands, resulting in a proportionate decrease in the success rate of applications;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to enhance opportunities of the Creative Europe programme for individual cultural creators such as authors, artists and performers who are the creative source of our European culture that our society and democracy is built upon;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Emphasises the importance of the cross-border mobility of artists, authors and performers and exchanges between them in order to facilitate their creative work and improve their opportunities to gain new professional experience abroad; welcomes in this context the new mobility action Culture Moves Europe within the CULTURE strand which offers mobility grants to artists and cultural professionals, and calls on the Commission to extend mobility opportunities for individual creators beyond the CULTURE strand;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reiterates its repeated calls upon the Commission and the Member States to tackle the long-term consequences of the pandemic on individual cultural creators that have come alongside other fundamental challenges such as the increasingly fast-paced technological progress which requires a specific technical and legal knowledge; therefore calls on the Commission to significantly enhance opportunities regarding the upskilling and reskilling of artists, authors and performers within the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Acknowledges the flexibility of the Commission and the EACEA in implementing the programme, which was adapted to take into account the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the need to strike a balance between harmonised administrative management systems for all EU programmes, on the one hand, and the specific needs of different beneficiaries, on the other; urges, therefore, the Commission and the EACEA to step-up their efforts to simplify the administrative management procedures of the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027; encourages the Creative Europe Desks to maintain and further strengthen their support to applicants, in particular by making the programme and its functioning more transparent and accessible to the most disadvantaged beneficiaries;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the administrative simplification measures introduced with the new generation of the programme; recalls, however, that streamlining and simplification should not result in the reduction of financial and human resources devoted to project monitoring and evaluation;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to schedule regular capacity-building exchanges with beneficiaries to outline novelties such as new requirements under the reporting system, including General Data Protection Regulation9 -compliant deliverables; underlines that the reporting system must be improved to facilitate ease of use; and that its accessibility for people with disabilities must be ensured; _________________ 9 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC. OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1.
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the progressive introduction of inclusion incentives across all strands in the first two years of programme’s implementation; notes, however, the lack of comprehensive data on how the programme objectives are being pursued in a way that encourages inclusion, equality, diversity and participation; urges the Commission to provide, in this regard, a detailed report in its interim evaluation;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights the importance of transparency in disseminating call results; in this regard, calls on the Commission to continue publishing the list of all grant recipients along with the awarded amount for calls in a timely manner;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the importance of further working on the protection of freedom of artistic expression through the funding of cultural cooperation projects and cultural networks dedicated to this topic under the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls the great potential of Creative Europe in its external dimension with the aim of building international cultural relations based on shared values; in this regard, welcomes the work done by the Member States’ cultural institutes and organisations and by the EUNIC Clusters in third countries and encourages further cooperation between them with a particular attention to be given to smaller Member States and Member States with limited or no cultural visibility abroad, and to their cultural representation needs;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the launch in November 2021 by the Commission of CulturEU, a new multilingual interactive guide mapping all funding opportunities available at EU level for the cultural and creative sectors and industries, which has been developed to help all types and sizes of partners to navigate the landscape of EU funding for culture;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of the Creative Europe programme in developing and enhancing transnational partnerships, thus also contributing to EU international relations through culture; in this regard, calls on the Commission to invest appropriate resources on the external dimension of the programme;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the increasing participation of third countries in the various components of the Creative Europe programme, which contributes to strengthening cultural and artistic links between the EU and those countries; calls on the Commission to support the participation of third countries, which helps to strengthen international cultural cooperation;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that the current Creative Europe programme, despite the significantly increased budget for the period 2021-2027, is still oversubscribed and does not reflect the growth and full potential of the European cultural and creative sectors and industries; calls on the Commission and the Member States, in this regard, to substantially increase the financial envelope of the Creative Europe programme 2028-2034; in this context, strongly deplores the announced Council cuts for the 2024 budget, that could put in danger ongoing key projects, which are essential to achieve the objectives of the programme;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to further strengthen and facilitate mobility initiatives such as Culture Moves Europe and other mobility opportunities for individual creators by equipping them with higher funding within the budgets of the current and future Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Deplores the fact that, under the 2021-2027 MFF, there is no flexibility to top-up the Creative Europe programme and underlines that this precludes the funding of new initiatives, valuable pilot projects and preparatory actions;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Recalls that contributing to the Union’s global strategy for international relations through culture is a priority of the Culture strand. Emphasises that culture can play an important role in promoting European values internationally. Therefore calls for allowing cooperation projects to have partners from countries that are not participating in the programme;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Underlines the importance of the funding strand for European networks in the cultural and creative sectors representing thousands of organisations and millions of people working in these sectors; providing networking and capacity building and contributing to strengthening the competitiveness and diversity of the European cultural and creative sectors; calls on the Commission, to continue developing this action by increasing the number of networks funded and ensuring adequate funding;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Acknowledges the high quality of applications received under the mobility scheme; in this regard, calls on the Commission to safeguard geographical balance in addition to increasing participation from countries that are underrepresented; in this context, recalls the importance of mutual recognition and cross-border portability of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to increase the promotion of Culture Moves Europe to a wider audience, with the aid and support of all Creative Europe desks, through communication and outreach activities specifically targeting less represented countries and sectors, as well as artists with disabilities; regrets, however, that administrative and financial obstacles to mobility still remain; calls for the promotion of cross-border approaches to culture and the search for European partners for the creation of major European cultural co-productions and residencies programmes, with the objective of fostering the mobility of artists and creators by reinforcing cooperation of all involved actors and exchanges of best practices, including with non-EU countries;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to increase the promotion of Culture Moves Europe to a wider audience, with the aid and support of all Creative Europe desks, through communication and outreach activities specifically targeting less represented countries and sectors, as well as artists with disabilities and artists from marginalised groups;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes the increase of actions providing support to the music sector under the Culture strand, resulting in a higher number of music-related projects being submitted under the current programme;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a more strategic and sector-oriented approach for the music sector tackling the new and upcoming challenges, building on the results of the Music Moves Europe preparatory action; in this regard, stresses the importance of a regular structured dialogue between the music sector and the Commission;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Acknowledges that the European Heritage Label is a valuable initiative promoting the significant role these sites play in the history and culture of Europe and notes that, during the period from 2013 to 2021, 60 sites have been designated with the title; calls, however, on the Commission to improve the visibility of the European Heritage Label by developing synergies with other relevant EU financial instruments;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights the significant international competition that European audiovisual, film and videogame content are facing;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the vital roles of the European Film Distribution and European Film Sales support schemes in contributing to the cultural diversity of the European audiovisual sector by increasing the cross- border circulation of European films; stresses, therefore, that it is key to maintain adequate funding for both schemes and to make further efforts to ensure the circulation and online availability of European works;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Requests additional funding for video game projects under Creative Europe to contribute to the growth of the European video game ecosystem in order to maximise game creation opportunities throughout all Member States and encourage the development of and retain European talent;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Notes that, as the Media Invest facility attracted a large number of applications, increased budgetary synergies with the InvestEU programme must be secured for its future implementation; calls on the Commission to further improve the promotion of this facility amongst the audiovisual sector;