Activities of Sylvie GUILLAUME related to 2022/0277(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Media Freedom Act (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The Board should bring together senior representatives of the national regulatory authorities or bodies referred to in Article 30 of Directive 2010/13/EU, appointed by such authorities or bodies. In cases where Member States have several relevant regulatory authorities or bodies, including at regional level, a joint representative should be chosen through appropriate procedures and the voting right should remain limited to one representative per Member State. This should not affect the possibility for the other national regulatory authorities or bodies to participate, as appropriate, in the meetings of the Boardor representatives of self-regulatory or co- regulatory systems to participate, as appropriate, in the meetings of the Board. When discussions or decisions may concern press publications that are not subject to regulatory oversight, the Board should invite representatives from the self-regulatory bodies or journalistic organisations to participate to get their advice. The Board should also have the possibility to invite to attend its meetings, in agreement with the Commission, experts and observers, including in particular regulatory authorities or bodies from candidate countries, potential candidate countries, EEA countries, or ad hoc delegates from other competent national authorities. Due to the sensitivity of the media sector and following the practice of ERGA decisions in accordance with its rules of procedure, the Board should adopt its decisions on the basis of a two-thirds majority of the votes.
Amendment 257 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to ensure a level playing field in the provision of diverse audiovisual media services in the face of technological developments in the internal market, it is necessary to find common technical prescriptions and harmonised European standards for devices controlling or managing access to and use of audiovisual media services or carrying digital signals conveying the audiovisual content from source to destination. In this context, it is important to avoid diverging technical standards creating barriers and additional costs for the industry and consumers while encouraging solutions to, in particular open standards for TV, which support the implementation of existing obligations concerning audiovisual media services.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to ensure a level playing field in the provision of diverse audiovisual media services in the face of technological developments in the internal market, it is necessary to find common technical prescriptions for devices, including remote controls, controlling or managing access to and use of audiovisual media services or carrying digital signals conveying the audiovisual content from source to destination. In this context, it is important to avoid diverging technical standards creating barriers and additional costs for the industry and consumers while encouraging solutions to implement existing obligations concerning audiovisual media services.
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) Recipients of audiovisual media services should be able to effectively choose the audiovisual content they want to watch according to their preferences. Their freedom in this area may however be constrained by commercial practices in the media sector, namely agreements for content prioritisation between manufacturers of devices or providers of user interfaces controlling or managing access to and use of audiovisual media services, such as connected televisions, and media service providers. Prioritisation can be implemented, for example, on the home screen of a device, through hardware or software shortcuts, applications and search areas or dedicated buttons on remote controls, which have implications on the recipients’ viewing behaviour, who may be unduly incentivised to choose certain audiovisual media offers over others. Service recipients should have the possibility to change, in a simple and user- friendly manner, the default settings of a device or user interface controlling and managing access to, and use of, audiovisual media services, without prejudice to measures to ensure the appropriate prominence of audiovisual media services of general interest implementing Article 7a of Directive 2010/13/EC, taken in the pursuit of legitimate public policy considerations.
Amendment 317 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) Audiovisual media services are subject to various obligations to meet public policy goals such as supporting cultural diversity and a pluralistic media environment. It is therefore essential that devices be designed in a way that ensures fair access to audiovisual media services in all their diversity, from the perspective of both viewers and media service providers. In this regard, particular attention should be paid to the impact of the choices by device manifacturers with respect to the design of remote controls.
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) National regulatory authorities or bodies or when appropriate self- regulatory bodies, who have specific expertise in the area of media pluralism, should be involved in the assessment of the impact of media market concentrations on media pluralism and editorial independence where they are not the designated authorities or bodies themselves. In order to foster legal certainty and ensure that the rules and procedures are genuinely geared at protecting media pluralism and editorial independence, it is essential that objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate criteria for notifying and assessing the impact of media market concentrations on media pluralism and editorial independence are set out in advance.
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Audience measurement has a direct impact on the allocation and the prices of advertising, which represents a key revenue source for the media sector. It is a crucial tool to evaluate the performance of media content and understand the preferences of audiences in order to plan the future production of content. Accordingly, media market players, in particular media service providers, right holders and advertisers, should be able to rely on objective audience data stemming from transparent, unbiased and verifiable audience or consumption and performance measurement solutions. However, certain new players that have emerged in the media ecosystem provide their own measurement services without making available information on their methodologies. This could result in information asymmetries among media market players and in potential market distortions, to the detriment of equality of opportunities for media service providers in the market.
Amendment 459 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14
(14) ‘audience measurement’ means the activity of collecting, interpreting or otherwise processing data about the number and characteristics of users of media services and of programs for the purposes of decisions regarding advertising allocation or prices or the relatedregarding the planning, production or distribution of content;
Amendment 687 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. Where a Member State has more than one national regulatory authority or body, those regulatory authorities or bodies shall coordinate with each other as necessary and appoint a joint representative which shall exercise the right to vote. This should not affect the possibility for the other national regulatory authorities or bodies or representatives of self- regulatory or co-regulatory systems to participate, as appropriate, in the meetings of the Board.
Amendment 703 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Article 10 – paragraph 6
6. The Board, in agreement with the Commission, may invite experts and observers to attend its meetings. When discussions or decisions may concern press publications that are not subject to regulatory oversight, the Board should invite representatives from the self- regulatory bodies or journalistic organisations to participate in order to express their advice.
Amendment 931 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 4
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. The Board shall foster cooperation between media service providers, standardisation bodies or any other relevant stakeholders in order to facilitapromote the development of harmonised European technical standards related to digital signals orand design of devices or user interfaces controlling or managing access to and use of audiovisual media services.
Amendment 1085 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. Users shall have a right to easily change the default settings of any device or, user interface and remote control controlling or managing access to and use of audiovisual media services in order to customise the audiovisual media offer according to their interests or preferences in compliance with the law. This provision shall not affect national measures implementing Article 7a of Directive 2010/13/EU.
Amendment 1091 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. When placing the devices, remote controls and user interfaces referred to in paragraph 1 on the market, manufacturers and developers shall ensure that they include a functionality enabling users to freely and easily change the default settings controlling or managing access to and use of the audiovisual media services offered.
Amendment 1234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. Without prejudice to the protection of undertakings’ business secrets, providers of proprietary audience measurement systems shall provide, without undue delay and free of costs, to media service providers and, advertisers, and right holders, as well as to third parties authorised by media service providers and advertisers or right holders, accurate, detailed, comprehensive, intelligible and up-to-date information on the data collected and on the methodology used by their audience measurement systems. Right holders should also have access to consumption and performance data collected regarding their programs. This provision shall not affect the Union’s data protection and privacy rules.