14 Amendments of Petra KAMMEREVERT related to 2012/2132(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the Protocol on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States annexed to the Treaty of Amsterdam amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts, 11997D/PRO/09, published in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 340 of 10 November 1997, p. 109,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the European Commission to encourage the consistent and full implementation of the AVMSD in the Member States and in particular to ensure that all due account is taken of the specific definitions contained in the recitals to this Directive when it is transposed into national law;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Encourages the Commission to examine, in the event of any review of the AVMSD, to what extent uncertainties or inaccuracies in the definitions possibly led to difficulties in implementation in the Member States, so that these can be resolved in the context of this review;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for wider accessibility of programmes, in particular those rendered via on-demand services, through further developments in, inter alia, audio description, audio/spoken subtitles, sign language and menu navigation, notably of electronic programme guides (EPGs)Recognises that Member States should encourage media service providers under their jurisdiction to make their services more accessible particularly to persons with physical disabilities;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission, in the event of a revision of the AVMSD, to examine whether, given the increasing convergence in content distribution, the retention of programme quotas remains an effective means of promoting European productions, or whether, as an alternative, the development and distribution of European productions can be achieved more effectively through a European media fund building on and complementing existing EU support mechanisms;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that the data provided are insufficient to draw any conclusions on the promotion of European works by on- demand services providers, and calls, in this regard, for the reporting requirement on European works to include at least a breakdown by category – cinema production, fiction and non- fiction TV production and show-type or entertainment formats – and by means of distribution;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to promote better synergies amongst regulatory authorities, audiovisual media services providers and the Commission, which enable EU films, to reach a wider audience both domestically and in other Member Statesso that films produced in the EU can reach a wider audience both within and beyond it;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes note of self-regulatory initiatives and codes of conducts designed to limit children’s and minors’ exposure to food advertising and marketing, such as those launched within the framework of the Commission’s Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that although suchco-regulatory and self- regulatory initiatives represent an advance on the prior situation, they have not proved to be sufficiently effective and because they offer a means of reacting more swiftly to developments in the rapidly channot replace legally binding requirements that may be necessary to ensure the effective protection of minorsging world of the media; and calls on the Commission, in the event of a revision of the AVMSD, to give these relatively new regulatory tools a greater role in the protection of young people in the media and in the regulation of advertising, without however entirely eschewing public-authority regulation or supervision;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to continue closely and effectively to monitor compliance with the 12-minute limitation in Member States and to ini, as well as monitoring compliance with existing rules, to take account of future challenges in terms of the competitiveness and sustainable financing of audiovisual media services and, in the light of these, to review the quantitate infringement procedures where necessarive stipulations on advertising with an eye to opportunities for introducing flexibility;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to analyse whether stricter rules are needed as regards advertising aimed at children and minors, with particular emphasis on misleading television and online advertising;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to update its interpretative communication on certain aspects of the provisions on televised advertising in 2013, which could provide indications on how to attain the qualitative minimum standards for all audiovisual commercial communications in Article 9 of the AVMSD;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to address in particular the uncertainties around use of the term ‘on-demand audiovisual media services’ and, with an eye both to greater consistency in EU legislation affecting on-demand audiovisual services and to likely developments in media convergence, to establish a clearer definition of the term so that the regulatory aims of the AVMSD can be achieved more effectively;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Is convinced – given both the market practices of media services providers and platform operators and the developing potential of the relevant technology – that the level of data protection needs to be improved and standardised throughout the EU, while continuing to provide for anonymity in the use of audiovisual media services as the norm;