7 Amendments of Stanimir ILCHEV related to 2011/2246(INI)
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. CAs the public media are under the influence and pressure of some political groups or serve private political interests, calls on the Member States and the European Union to respect, guarantee, protect and promote the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information, and media freedom and pluralism, and hence to refrain from exerting, and develop mechanisms to impede, threats to media freedom such as trying to unduly and politically influence and impose partisan control and censorship on the media;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 а (new)
Paragraph 3 а (new)
3а. Recalls that, according to the European Court of Human Rights, states members must guarantee media pluralism under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Article 10 of that Convention contains provisions similar to those in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which forms part of the Community acquis;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the important role of the public service media, funded by citizens through the State, and their institutional duties to provide high quality and accurate and reliable information; stresses that the private media have similar duties in relation to information, notably of institutional and political nature, in particular on the occasion of elections, referenda, etc; urges the Member States to exempt the independent non-entertainment media from value added tax and to introduce additional/increased taxation for media programmes with a pornographic content;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the important role of the public service media, funded by citizens through the State, and their institutional duties to provide high quality and accurate and reliable information; underlines the importance that this public service does not serve private interests or be influenced by any means from people from the political scene in the member states, or from political groups in third countries; stresses that the private media have similar duties in relation to information, notably of institutional and political nature, in particular on the occasion of elections, referenda, etc;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that media ownership and management should be transparent and not concentrated and that to this end a mandatory Single European Register on media ownership should be created and kept on owners and on the media in order to provide the public with information; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure competition so as to address and prevent dominant positions and guarantee the access of new entrants on the market; calls for rules to ensure that conflicts of interest are properly addressed and resolved; highlights that advertising and sponsoring may cause interference with the editorial line of media;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the importance of annually monitoring media freedom and pluralism in Europe and reporting on a yearly basis on the matter, on the basis of the detailed standards developed by the Council of Europe and the OSCE and of the risk-based analytical approach and indicators developed by the independent study drawn up for the Commission, in liaison with NGOs, stakeholders and experts; believes that the Commission, in cooperation with the Fundamental Rights Agency and/or the EUI Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, must carry out this task; and publish an annual report with the results of that monitoring; believes that the Commission should present that report to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers and make proposals for any actions and measures arising from its conclusions;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 а (new)
Paragraph 13 а (new)
13а. Encourages the Commission and Member States, in the framework of the Commission’s media literacy policy, to pay sufficient attention to the importance of media education, which must provide citizens with the skills of critical interpretation and the ability to sift through the ever-growing volume of information.