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11 Amendments of Antonius MANDERS related to 2023/2019(INI)

Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas citizens living in border regions and linguistic minorities are often prevented from accessing audiovisual content in their native languages due to geo-blocking, which hinders their access to and enjoyment of cultural content; whereas the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’ Initiative proposed an amendment with the effect of ensuring freedom of service and freedom of reception of audiovisual content in those regions where the minorities live;
2023/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution of 13 November 2018 on minimum standards for minorities in the EU has called the Commission and Member States to take into account national and ethnic minorities when licensing media services and already encouraged the Commission to create the legal and regulatory conditions to ensure freedom of service, passage and reception of audiovisual content in regions where minorities live;
2023/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, in recent years, the EU has facilitated access to audiovisual content across borders by addressing certain copyright-related obstacles to the distribution of content with Regulation (EU) 2017/1128 on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market, which allows consumers to continue accessing their paid-for subscription service when travelling in the EU as well as with the Online Television and Radio Programmes Directive1a, which facilitates the cross- border accessibility of certain television programmes on broadcasters’ online services; _________________ 1a Directive (EU) 2019/789 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 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, and amending Council Directive 93/83/EEC
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution of 17 February 2022 on tackling non-tariff and non-tax barriers in the single market recalled that despite the Geo-blocking Regulation certain obstacles persist, particularly in the provision of audiovisual services and content, and that this manifests itself in reduced consumer confidence in cross- border online shopping within the Digital Single Market;
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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 has called the Commission and Member States to take into account national and ethnic minorities when licensing media services and already encouraged the Commission to create the legal and regulatory conditions to ensure freedom of service, passage and reception of audiovisual content in regions where minorities in the EUlive; whereas the ‘Minority SafePack’ European Citizens’ Initiative proposed an amendment with the effect of ensuring freedom of service and freedom of reception of audiovisual content in those regions where the minorities live and 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;
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
F. whereas the Commission organised within the framework of the Media Audiovisual Action Plan a stakeholder dialogue to find 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 for minorities in the EU;
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Recital G
G. whereas piracy in order to access content can be put in relation with the 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 piracy in order to access content;
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that, in order to improve cross-border access to and availability of audiovisual content in the EU for linguistic minorities, audiovisual content licences are geographically extended to the nationally defined territory of the recognized linguistic minority of the neighbouring country, in which the same language is spoken, without calling into question the territoriality principle in general;
2023/07/11
Committee: JURI
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on the Commission to rapidly create the legal and regulatory conditions to ensure freedom of service, dissemination and reception of digital media content in 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;
2023/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that, in order to improve cross-border access to and availability of audiovisual content in the EU for linguistic minorities, audiovisual content licences are geographically extended to the nationally defined territory of the recognized linguistic minority of the neighbouring country, in which the same language is spoken, without calling into question the territoriality principle in general;
2023/07/13
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that the Commission should also present the results of the analysis for the potential extension of the Regulation to transport, financial, telecommunication and health services; calls on the Commission to take the necessary steps to end the blocking of services provided by mobile network operators in border regions in the EU;
2023/07/13
Committee: IMCO