7 Amendments of Herbert DORFMANN related to 2015/2147(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 48 a (new)
Citation 48 a (new)
- having regard to the Directive 89/552/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 19891a and the Directive 2007/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 20071b on the pursuit of television broadcasting activities, __________________ 1a OJ L 298, 17.10.1989 p. 23 1bOJ L 332, 18.12.2007, p. 27–45
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas media rights are often exclusively sold to one media provider or broadcaster per Member State, which very often leads to broadcasting in the most spoken and predominant language of that state; whereas this media policy can restrict the consumers` right to access media in their preferred language, and especially the right to access media by linguistic minorities;
Amendment 518 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that accessible, affordable, efficient and high-quality delivery services are an essential prerequisite for thriving cross-border e-commerce; supports the proposed measures to improve price transparency, interoperability and regulatory oversight that should target both the smooth functioning of cross-border parcel delivery markets and compliance with relevant social and labour rights, allowing enough flexibility for the delivery market to evolve and adapt to technological innovations and resulting in a more competitive and single European parcel delivery market;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that ambitious actions are needed to improve access to legal digital content, in particular by ending geo- blocking practices and unfair price discrimination based on geographical locationexclusive media rights marketing to one Member State, and unfair price and media access discrimination based on geographical location, which hinder consumers who wish to access media contents in their preferred language, especially in cases of linguistic minorities;
Amendment 595 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Asks for the creation of a single digital market for media providers and broadcasters, and a renewed copyright law on audiovisual and online media that guarantees cross-border services and retransmission over third party platforms, while integrating the rationale behind the "country of origin principle";
Amendment 606 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Supports in particular the Commission’s planned scrutiny of the practical enforcement of Article 20(2) of the Services Directive in order to analyse possible patterns of discrimination against consumers based on their country of residence and the belonging to a certain linguistic minority or language group; calls on the Commission to identify and define concise case groups of justified discrimination under Article 20(2) of the Services Directive in order to outlaw unjustified discriminatory behaviour by private entities and in order to provide interpretative assistance to authorities responsible for applying Article 20(2) in practice; calls on the Commission to make concerted efforts to add the provision of Article 20(2) to the Annex of Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 in order to utilise the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network’s investigation and enforcement powers;
Amendment 619 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Further points out the importance of the ongoing competition sector inquiry into the e-commerce sector in order to investigate, inter alia, whether geo-blocking restrictions infringe the rules of EU competition law and the right to use and access all types of media in one`s native or preferred language, including film broadcasting rights for cinemas; stresses the importance of increasing consumer and business confidence by introducing changes to the Block Exemption Regulation, most importantly Article 4a and Article 4b, in order to limit undesirable re-routing and territorial restrictions;