18 Amendments of Hannes HEIDE related to 2022/2038(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas positive encouragement and promotion of professional audiovisual media services from the Union can make an important contribution to the global fight against disinformation and fake news; whereas this contributes to the effective implementation of the right to information and to the promotion of public discourse based on a multitude of opinions;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the usefulness of the ‘MAVISE’ database1a, managed by the European Audiovisual Observatory, which provides information on audiovisual media services, video-sharing platforms, and their jurisdiction in Europe, and calls for further efforts to expand its reach and facilitate its use by all interested users; _________________ 1a https://mavise.obs.coe.int/
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, on the basis of the Member States’ reports and in cooperation with ERGA and in dialogue with relevant civil society organisations, to work on common qualitative and quantitative targets to continually promote the further development of accessible services and to improve the accessibility of services overall; clear targets, based in each case on the most up-to-date technical developments, in relation to the respective access services, with clear deadlines set in relation to their respective implementation, are desirable; reporting on improvements in accessible offers must be publicly available;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes the potential of using artificial intelligence to increase the accessibility of audiovisual offers and calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote this in a strategic and targeted manner;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages Member States to better use and exploit the opportunities that can arise from the appropriate promotion of audiovisual media services of general interest; suggests, furthermore, that ERGA develop guidelines in this regard, detailing how to promote audiovisual media services of general interest without restricting existing systems or their further development;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Considers that there is a need for pre-defining, diversity-securing and specific media law requirements for the use and integration of artificial intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to the generation or distribution of audiovisual content; in this context, AI- supported models must be designed or, where necessary, their use restricted in such a way that they serve an open-ended model of discourse and equal opportunities in the media, and also promote critical-creative impulses and are open to being confronted with the counter-argument to one's own position;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out, in this regard, that services or content of general interest are deliberately not limited to public service media but also include services or content provided by commercial media service providers aimed at meeting social, democratic and cultural needs;
Amendment 80 #
10 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, through consistent, coherent implementation and application of this Directive in conjunction with the Digital Services Acts, to minimise the regulatory disparities that exist regarding audiovisual offerings from different providers but which are available on one and the same online platform, while at the same time enforcing high standards with regard to respect for human dignity, ensuring the protection of minors, public order and safety, and a respectful, pluralistic and well-functioning democratic discourse;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Stresses that Member States are free to include other types of media, such as radio, online audio or press, when transposing the directive into national law;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Draws the Commission’s attention to its reporting obligation under Article 13(5) of the AVMSD and calls on it, in particular, to examine whether the rule in Article 13(2) could, in certain circumstances, run counter to the country of origin principle, lead to fragmentation of the internal market or possibly discourage market participants from investing in smaller markets, ultimately harming cultural and media diversity, and calls on the Commission to suggest possible solutions where appropriate;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Recognizes the importance of the introduction of a minimum VoD quota and considers that ensuring its effective implementation is a priority; calls on the European Commission, Member States and audiovisual regulators to proceed to a detailed monitoring of its concrete implementation in all Member States as well as to assess its impact on the geographical, cultural, linguistic and artistic diversity of audiovisual works available to the European audience, including authored works; considers that equating a season of a series with one title should be assessed in due time in light of the objective of ensuring a balanced representation of cinematographic works and TV series;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Stresses the importance of prominence, promotion and discoverability of European works and that they should be the subject of more attention and proposals, on the continuity of the work done by ERGA on the matter; calls on the Commission to present guidelines on how Member States can ensure the prominence and the discoverability of European works, with a view to improving access to a greater cultural and linguistic diversity, and suggests that these guidelines may define the terms of prominence and discoverability; stresses the need for access to online consumption data in order to properly evaluate the impact of the prominence obligation in particular;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13 c. Insists on the importance of the article 13.2 on the possibility to introduce financial obligations (contributions to funds or direct investment obligations) on the basis of a targeted derogation to the country-of-origin principle, as Member States retain full competence over their cultural policies including for the audiovisual sector; highlights that financial obligations are instrumental in stimulating private investments and public support policies to the benefit of European works and to sustain local audiovisual ecosystems in a changing market context; encourages Member States implementing financial obligations to make sure that they benefit European independent producers and authors as well as different audiovisual genres and the linguistic expressions;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on Member States to better protect the European model of author’s rights against practices, such as work-for- hire contracts and buy-out contracts, where the intellectual property rights of creators are waived in full or in part; stresses that, in order to be considered an European work pursuant to Article 13(7) of the Directive, the law governing the contract must be that of the European Union or of one of its Member States; suggests that this latter requirement also applies to the eligibility criteria to benefit from funding under the Creative Europe Media programme;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on the Commission to further investigate the fast-growing offer of audiovisual media services produced by online influencers, with a focus on youth and consumer protection, and to fully enforce the clear and recognisable separation between advertising and own content; the failure to identify commercial communications as such is increasingly becoming a problem in terms of competition and has a negative impact on the protection of minors and consumers;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Notes that in addition to IPTV and OTT TV operators, many platform providers relevant for the distribution of and access to audiovisual media services, radio services and print or audio online services in the EU do not fall within the scope of the Digital Market Act and are therefore not obliged to grant access to data generated in relation to the use of a corresponding media service and may also continue to place their own services or offers before those of third parties; both have a detrimental impact on the European media landscape, harm fair competition in the media and need to be addressed by legislation;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15 c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure wherever possible that the identity of the audiovisual media service provider is clearly identifiable by users, including online, by means of a logo or other type of branding;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges the Commission to issue in good timewithout undue delay the guidelines required under Article 33a(3) on the scope of the Member States’ reports on the implementation of the measures for the development of media literacy skills, so thatas is it referred in Recital 59 of the AVMSD, in order to ensure a more effective and unified implementation and control of the AVMSD among all the State Members, so that the implementation of the directive and the timely submission of thesecontrol reports is not further delayed;