5 Amendments of Marco CAPPATO related to 2007/2253(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas advertising revenue remains the media's main source of financing, and the existence of dominant advertisers sometimes leads to undesirable pressure on the companies and the content and products they offer their audiences, especially in certain Member States, dominant positions exist and are growing in the advertising market that are liable to distort that market and make it almost impossible for new players to enter, which is in breach of the law,
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas in practice the public authorities and political parties frequently tamper with the basic principle of the free emission and reception of information,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas as long as they are primarily obliged to satisfy majority public taste, public service broadcasters will be forgetting their subsidiary role, interfering in the advertising market, and competing unfairly with the commercial TV channels,
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to place limits on the domination of advertising by certain brands and advertising licensers;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Member States to put an end to the aura of 'guardians of the truth' with which some have of them have surrounded the national regulatory authorities, thus creating a serious democratic deficit, and proposes, in order to avoid censorship, be it ex ante or ex post, that they turn those authorities into bodies for the protection of children and young people and of health, as well as giving them a new name so as to differentiate them from existing audiovisual boards; and invites the Member States to strengthen guarantees of the genuine independence of the national regulatory authorities,