Activities of Helga TRÜPEL related to 2012/2132(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive PDF (241 KB) DOC (174 KB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas audiovisual media services are as much cultural services as they are economic services;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the AVMSD guaranteesaims to ensure a free flow of audiovisual media services as an internal market instrument, and reflspectings the right to freedom of expression and information andwhile protecting the public interest objectiveand authors’ rights;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the AVMSD aims to safeguard cultural diversity by promotingboth takes into account the cultural nature of audiovisual media services which are of particular importance for society and democracy as vectors of identities and values, and aims to safeguard cultural diversity particularly through minimum harmonisation of European media regulation and the promotion of European audiovisual works;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the AVMSD remains the appropriate instrument to govern the EU- wide coordination of national legislation on all audiovisual media and to uphold the principles of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to continue to ensure that, given their dual nature as cultural and economic services, audiovisual media services remain excluded from liberalisation under the negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS);
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that although such self- regulatory initiatives represent an advance on the prior situation, they have not proved to be sufficiently effective and cannoteffective self-regulatory and co-regulatory youth-protection initiatives represent a useful adjunct to legal provisions in realising the aims of the AVMSD but that they cannot in themselves replace legally binding requirements that may be necessary to ensure the effective protection of minors;