13 Amendments of Patrick BREYER related to 2023/2019(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Regulation (EU) 2018/302 on addressing unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers’ nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market and amending Regulations (EC) No 2006/2004 and (EU) 2017/2394 and Directive 2009/22/EC of 28 February 2018 does not address geo-blocking of digital media content, such as e-books, music or video games and audiovisual services (including movies and broadcasts of sport events); whereas the Regulation mandates a review to assess if its scope should be extended to these sectors;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission’s review shows that European consumers only have access to a small proportion of the total content made available online in the Union; whereas the number of consumers trying to access digital media content offered in other Member States is growing rapidly and a third of citizens have expressed interest in doing so; whereas barriers to access to digital media content cannot all be solved by Regulation 2017/1128 on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market, due to the delineated scope of the latter;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas citizens living in border regions or belonging to linguistic minorities are often prevented from accessing content in their native languages due to geo-blocking, which hinders their access to and enjoyment of cultural content, despite some improvement undertaken by public service media;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas Parliament called for these issues to be addressed in its resolution of 13 November 2018 on minimum standards for minorities in the EU; whereas the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’ Initiative called for these issues to be addressed through the development of a unitary European copyright that will lead to the abolition of licensing barriers within the Union; whereas Parliament expressed its support to the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’ Initiative in its resolution of 17 December 2020 (2020/2846(RSP)), in which it welcomed the Commission’s plan to engage in a dialogue with stakeholders on audiovisual content as part of its media and audiovisual action plan, on the basis of the Commission’s detailed stock-taking on the Geo-blocking Regulation, and stressed the need to ensure that minority language concerns are taken into consideration in future regulations;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the Commission organised a stakeholder dialogue ton access to and availability of audiovisual content across the EU to work further on finding solutions for these issues, but no significant agreements were reached and the proposals put forward would not adequately address the geo-blocking of digital media content;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas persistent barriers to accessing to digital media content, such as price, fragmentation, geo-blocking and the unavailability of dubbing or subtitles force citizens to resort to piracyillegal distribution in order to access content; whereas improving legal access to digital content would enhance citizen trust in digital services and ensure greater legal certainty for users and rights-holders alike;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the growth of on-demand content and the shrinking role of television and radio should prompt a rethink of the Union’s approach to content licensing in view of enhancing citizen trust in digital services and ensure legal certainty; whereas Directive 2019/789 laying down rules on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television and radio programmes (SatCab II) offers legal solutions to facilitate pan- European licensing of copyrighted content that are restricted to broadcasting and can therefore not address the entire scope of content licensing and access issues in the digital environment;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to rapidly create the legal and regulatory conditions to guarantee the freedom to provide digital media content services and to ensure the dissemination and reception of digital media content from regions where minorities live, so that they can watch and listen to content in their mother tongue without geo-blocking of this content if it is broadcast or provided from another country; calls thereby the Commission to trigger the review clause contained in the Geo-Blocking Regulation in order to extend its scope to digital media content;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to investigate ways of granting citizens access to the public media platforms of the Member State whose citizenship they hold, regardless of where they reside, through further stakeholders dialogue involving all interested parties, including representatives of consumers, citizens and youth;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to propose legislation obliging commercial providers of digital media content operating in multiple Member States to allow Union citizens to purchase access to the catalogue of the Member State of their choice under reasonable conditions;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that it is the Member States' responsibility to enforce the Geo- Blocking Regulation, and that the Commission should regularly evaluate national implementations and rely on their dialogue with competent market surveillance authorities to monitor and sanction, when appropriate, unjustified geo-blocking practices infringing the Geo-Blocking Regulation.