Activities of Ivo BELET related to 2010/2028(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Public service broadcasting in the digital era: the future of the dual system (A7-0286/2010, Ivo Belet) (vote)
Public service broadcasting in the digital era: the future of the dual system (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on public service broadcasting in the digital era: the future of the dual system PDF (174 KB) DOC (100 KB)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 16 December 2008 on media literacy in a digital world,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas public broadcasters have a pioneering role in stimulating and utilising technological developments to offer their content to the public via innovative media and distribution techniques,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas such a coexistence of public and commercial broadcasters has ensured a diverse range of freely accessible programming, which benefits all EU citizens and contributes to media pluralism, cultural and linguistic diversity, editorial competition (in terms of content quality and diversity) and freedom of expression,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the EU attaches specific importance to the role of the dual system in contributing to the production and dissemination of EU content,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas changes in the audiovisual landscape in recent years, with the development of digital technologies, proprietary pay platforms and new media actors online, have impacted on the traditional dual broadcasting system, and linguistic diversity, editorial competition (in terms of content quality and diversity) and freedom of expression,
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas commercial television has recently been going through economic hardship due to the advertising recession,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas it lies within the competence of Member States to define the public service remit and to provide for its funding according to the principles of the Amsterdam Protocol,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas public service media need sufficient public funding to enable them to fulfil their remit in terms of offering a high standard of cultural and news content, and as such to explicitly develop media literacy for the public benefit,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas some Member States still fail to respectthe respect of the European standards on freedom of expression, media pluralism, and the independence, remit and funding of public service media in all the Member States, should be a priority for the European Union,
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its attachment to the dual broadcasting system, where private and public media play their respective roles independent of political and economic pressure, and access to information must be ensured irrespective of consumers’ ability to pay;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that the coexistence of public and private media has broadly contributed to innovation and diversification of content and has had a positive impact on quality;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges Member States to precisely define the remits of public service broadcasters so that they can retain their distinctiveness through a commitment to original audiovisual production and high-quality programming and journalism regardless of commercial considerations;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomAcknowledges the Commission broadcasting Communication of July 2009 and calls on Member States to implement its guidelines in order to maintain a balance amongst the digital media services on offer, to ensure fair competition between public broadcasting and private media and thus to preserve a vibrant media landscape in the online environment;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the recognition of the principle of technological neutrality and of the need to respect the editorial independence of public service broadcasters, taking due account of their need for stable and secured funding;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Points, however, to the enormous costs of (existing) ex ante tests and stresses its support for proportionate evaluations;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Recalls that terrestrial broadcasting platforms based on open and interoperable standards play a central role in the dual broadcasting system and are ideal to provide users with free and easily accessible audiovisual media services, which can better cope with the fragmentation of local markets and thereby address local cultural and social expectations;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to encourage the exchange of best practices between Member States on different levels (national media authorities, stakeholders, public service broadcasters' managers, independent regulators, viewers' and citizens' representatives);
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Ccalls on the Commission and Member States to give a mandate, including the necessary resources, to the European Audiovisual Observatory to monitorgather data and carry out research on the way in which Member States adhere tohave applied these standards, and insists that Member States should be held accountable for failing to fulfil these commitments;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that the transparency of ownership of private broadcasters is nothas to be guaranteed in all Member States, and calls on the Commission to monitor and support progress to this end;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls the financial instruments of the EIB, and encourages public broadcasters facing financial difficulties to apply for a soft loan from the EIB for the renewal of their infrastructure, in particular for digitisation and innovation;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the various stakeholders to cooperate in order to ensure the sustainability of their respective business modelsintensify cooperation to safeguard the dual system and, in particular, encourages public and private broadcasters to cooperate, also with publishers, on content sharing, innovative projects and to engage in partnerships;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to launch an initiative bringing together different media actors, to consider sustainable business models for digital media, to encourage exchanges of best practice, taking into account models that exist outside the EU, and to address copyright issues in this connectionfacilitate the identification of grounds for cooperation, exchanges of best practices and to address relevant issues, such as copyright;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Encourages the Commission to adapt copyright to the new digital era, allowing broadcasters to maintain a wide offer of qualitative European content and to consider in particular ways to facilitate the re-use of archive content and to put in place extended collective license-systems and easy one-stop-shop systems for the clearance of rights;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Invitessists that the Commission to launch an initiative on a possibleshould ensure the respect of the existing legal framework forby content aggregators under which search engines wand invites the Commission to consider ways in which search engines and internet service providers could contribute to the financing of content creation;