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24 Amendments of Marietje SCHAAKE related to 2012/2300(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas TV sets were originally developed to receive linear broadcast signals, which, in the digital environment, have hithertopast, have met with incomparably greater interest othan othe part of the public than other electronic media services, so that their outstanding importance for individual and public opinion-forming will persist for the foreseeable futurer media services, but the technological development towards digitally convergent media means that the previous outstanding importance for individual and public opinion-forming, associated with a higher level of regulation for linear services, is being called into question;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas it is becoming possible for linear and non-linear audiovisual services and numerous other communications services tocan now already be used on one and the same screen, combined seamlessly and consumed simultaneously, in parallel, as a result of which the dividing lines between these services are becoming blurred and it is now barely apparent to the user which type of communication service is being used;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas consumers’ interest in hybrid receiving systems is constantly growing, so that the opportunities for dissemination of (interactive) on-line services, which take their starting point as traditional TV services as regards their content or conception or are related to them in terms of scope, are constantly and significantly increasing;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the fragmentation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management in the Union limits consumer access to audiovisual content as well as the Union's competitive position in the global market;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the attention of each user is finite and, as the number of services on offer rises, it becomes more difficult to reach users, which means that access to and findability of services will be decisive for their success;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the current provisions of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) do not yet take into account these new technical developments and whereas in particular graduated regulation, which differentiates between television programmes (including webcasting and live streaming) and audiovisual media services on demand, will become less important in its existing form, although differently regulated information and communications services are available on one and the same device, including services which do not fall within the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive but of the e-Commerce Directive or, in the case of non-European services, are not covered by any EU media regulations at all, which may result in unequal competitive conditions and unacceptable discrepancies in the protection of users;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the regulatory objectives of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive – particularly ensuring and promoting diversity of opinion and of the media, protecting human dignity and protecting children, and safeguarding fair competition, as well as regulation of advertising – retain their importance to society and their regulatory justification as a matter of principle, but at the same time the limits of the effectiveness and enforceability of these protective provisions are becoming increasingly apparent because of the methods of use which have been made possible by hybrid receiving systems;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the mere chance fact of the existence of numerous services does not automatically result in the aforementioned regulatory objectives being attained, but their attainment needs to be safeguarded in advance, as undesirable developments can only be reversed to a limited extent and with considerable difficulties and there will therefore remain a need for a specific regulatory framework for the use of services on demand in hybrid receiving systemsand the future legal framework should resolve the regulatory problems posed by the new digital media landscape, whereby the aim must be to use self-regulatory or co- regulatory means, within the boundaries of existing legislation, to reduce regulation to a minimum;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas net neutrality is proven to be insufficiently safeguarded by transparency and competition;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas regulation differs between Member States, hampering the level playing field and the development of a single telecom and digital single market;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the country-of-broadcast principle in the original Television Without Frontiers Directive represents a milestone for freedom of information and the development of a common market in services, since the Member States committed themselves to quality-based minimum standards and, in return, introduced the country-of-origin principle in the form of the country-of-broadcast principle;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas the original Television Without Frontiers Directive was adopted in 1989 and had to be revised for the first time in 1997 and for the second time in 2007, contrary to the efforts made to adopt sustainable and longer-term audiovisual regulations that will make it possible to plan with certainty;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive and, insofar as necessary, in a supplementary manner in additional EU legal acts, to lay down provisions regulating services which will control the availability of, and access to, audiovisual media services and other communications services or their representation on hybrid receiving devices, so as to prevent producers of such receiving devices or suppliers of the services in question from exploiting their gatekeeper position in a way which discriminates against content providers;deleted
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to revise the regulatory framework for audiovisual media services and adapt it to the new demands of the Internet;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to apply European competition and telecommunications law to vertically integrated content and infrastructure providers;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to further develop the concept of media services defined in Article 1 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in such a way that the necessity of regulation by the Member States is determined more on the basis of the potential impact of services and specific features of that impact, particularly their relevance to opinion- forming and diversity;deleted
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to reform and harmonise IPR laws in the Union to ensure increased portability and cross- border access to audiovisual content;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to ensure in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive that Member States are given the opportunity to grant those content providers an appropriately privileged status with regard to findability on hybrid platforms (including portals, home pages and EPGs) to which the Member States assign a public broadcasting remit or which help to promote objectives in the public interest, particularly to ensure media pluralism and cultural diversity, or which lastingly and demonstrably undertake to carry out duties in the public interest which maintain the quality and independence of reporting and promote diversity of opinion, in which connection service providers with the highest aspirations to comply with such obligations should also be assigned the most prominent position on platforms;deleted
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in addition to such ‘must be found’ rules, to consider to what extent a reform of media regulation so as to move towards incentive schemes and strengthen self- regulatory approaches can enable the aforesaid regulatory objectives of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive to be attained in a lasting fashion;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to ensure that these platforms are operated on the basis of an open, non-proprietaryinteroperable standard, in a way which accords with market conditions entailing fair competition and accords with consumer demand;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to ensure in a legally binding manner that all content is as a matter of principle made available to the same quality standard on networks and platforms unless a measure entailing positive or negative discrimination demonstrably serves the public interest in the case of the dissemination of particular services;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to propose Union legislation guaranteeing net neutrality;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the anonymous use of TV and on-line services by means of hybrid receiving devices is guaranteed and that monitoring and exploitation of the user’s behaviour by manufacturers of devices or by third parties is not normally allowed, being permitted only with the witting and unambiguous consent of the useris consistent with the data protection rules in force;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States, in the negotiations on the multiannual financial framework, to reconsider the cut in funding, from the figure of EUR 9.2 billion originally proposed to EUR 1 billion, for the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect, CNECT) to cover the further development of telecommunications infrastructure;
2013/03/21
Committee: CULT