2008/2011(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas community media are open to and encourage participation in the creation of content by members of the community,

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas community media are open to participation in the creation of content by members of the communityies,

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas community media foster active volunteer participation in media production rather than passive media consumption,

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas community media very often do not represent a majority of those in society but serve instead a variety of smaller specific target groups which are in many cases locally based, and that community media use a diverse range of platforms such as broadcast radio, broadcast television, cable television, newspaper, Internet and others,

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas community media very often do not represent a majority of those in society but serve instead a variety of smaller specific target groups overlooked by general, commercial media, which are in many cases locally or regionally based,

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas community media fulfil a broad, yet largely unacknowledged role in the media landscape, particularly as a source of local content,

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas community media encourage innovation, creativity and diversity of content,

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the introduction of a code of practice, in addition to legal recognition, would clarify sector status, procedures and role, contributing to sector certainty while also ensuring independence and preventing misconduct,

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

~~H. whereas moreover so far none of the relevant legal texts of the European Union addresses the issue of community media,~~deleted

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas funded audience surveys would be useful to both the community media sector and policy-makers,

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation (new)

- having regard to the UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity which recognises the legitimacy of public policies for the recognition and promotion of pluralism,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

I. whereas the ~~World Wide Web~~Internet has propelled the sector into a new age with new possibilities and challenges,

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. Whereas community media are independent from government, commercial and religious institutions, and political parties,

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Ja (new)

Ja. Whereas 2008 has been designated European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, which means that the European media have a particularly important role to play providing an eminently suitable means of expression and information for smaller cultural entities within society as a whole and for continuation of the intercultural dialogue during 2008 and beyond;,

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. Whereas community media are important means of empowering citizens and encouraging them to become actively involved in civic society,

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. Whereas the concentration of ownership presents a threat to in-depth media coverage of issues of local interests for all groups forming the community,

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

Ma. Whereas community media enrich social debate, representing means of internal pluralism (of ideas),

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that community media help to strengthen the identities of specific communities of interest, while at the same time enabling members of those communities to engage with other groups in society, and therefore play a ~~key~~n important role in fostering tolerance and pluralism in society and contribute to intercultural dialogue;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Stresses also that the Community media promote intercultural dialogue by educating the general public, combating negative stereotypes and correcting the image projected by the mass media regarding social categories threatened with exclusion, such as refugees, migrants, Roma and other ethnic and religious minorities;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that community media are aone of the existing tools for the integration of immigrants and also enable disadvantaged members of society to become active participants by engaging in debates that are important to them;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that community media can play a significant role in training programs involving external organisations, including universities, and unskilled community members as a valuable hub for work experience;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

- having regard to the Treaty of Amsterdam amending the Treaty of the European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts, signed on 2 October, C340, 10 November 1997, Protocol No. 9 on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States, C340/109;

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Points out that, in light of the withdrawal or non existence of public and commercial media in some areas, including remote areas, and the tendency by commercial media to reduce local content, community media may provide the only source of local news and information and the only voice of local communities;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers that community media may serve as an efficient means in bringing closer the Union to its citizens by addressing specially targeted audience;

Amendment 32 #

Helga TRÜPEL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Points out that good quality of community media is essential to fulfil its potential and stresses the fact that without proper financial resources there cannot be such quality;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Encourages school-based community outlets in order to develop the civic attitude in the young, increase media literacy, as well as build up a set of skills that could be further used for community media participation;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Stresses the need for political independence of community media;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Acknowledges that additional funding and digital adaptation would enable the community media sector to extend its innovation profile and to provide new and vital services bringing added value to the existing analogue offerings;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. UrEncourages the Commission to ~~collaborate more actively with community media to enter into a~~take account of community media activities in its closer dialogue with citizens, and at local level;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Urges the Commission~~Recommends the Member States to collaborate more actively with community media to enter into a closer dialogue with citizens;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission ~~to define c~~and the Member States to take into account these elements by defining Community mMedia as ~~media that are~~:

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission to define community media as media that are: (a) non-profit, engaging primarily in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit; (b) accountable to the community which they seek to serve, which means that they are to inform the community about their actions and decisions, to justify them, and to be penalised in the event of any misconduct; (c) open to participation in the creation of content by members of the community.deleted

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

- having regard to the report on the Green Paper strategy options to strengthen the European programme industry in the context of the audiovisual policy of the European Union. A4-0140/95, Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and Media,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 - Subparagraph a

a) non-profit and independent, engaging primarily in activities of public ~~or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit~~and civil society interest, serving clearly defined objectives which always include a social gain and contribute to the intercultural dialogue;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 - Subparagraph a

(a) non-profit, engaging primarily in activities of public and/or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 - Subparagraph b

b) accountable to the community which they seek to serve, which means that they are to inform the community about their actions and decisions, to justify them, and to be penalised in the event of any misconduct, so that service remains controlled by the interests of the community and to prevent the creation of "top-down"-networks;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 - Subparagraph c

c) open to participation in the creation of content by members of the community., who may participate in all aspects of the operation and management whereas people in charge of editorial content must have professional status;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Urges Member States to give legal recognition to community media as a distinct public media group alongside ~~commercial and public media where such recognition is still lacking~~national public service media and outside of the commercial media sphere;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Urg~~Advises Member States to give legal recognition to community media as a distinct group alongside commercial and public media where such recognition is still lacking;

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Urges Member States to give legal recognition to community media as a distinct group alongside commercial and public media where such recognition is still lacking without detriment to traditional media;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Stresses that community medias should be independent not only from national but also from local power;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on Member States, and with particular emphasis those which acceded to the EU in 2004 and 2007, for more active support of community media to ensure media pluralism;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on Member States for more active support of community media to ensure media pluralism, though such support shall not be to the detriment of public media;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

- having regard to the Joint Declaration on Diversity in Broadcasting drafted by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media, the OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the ACHPR (African Commission on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, (adopted December 12, 2007),

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15α Stresses the role that may be played by local, regional and national authorities in supporting and promoting the community media by providing suitable infrastructure, together with support within the context of programmes encouraging exchanges of best practice, such as the Community ‘Regions for Economic Change’ (formerly Interreg) programme;·

Amendment 51 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Asks Member States to make television and radio frequency spectrum, both analogue and digital, available bearing in mind that the service provided by community media is not to be assessed in terms of opportunity cost or justification of the cost of spectrum allocation but the social value it represents;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on Member States to establish regular audience surveys in order for the community media and policy-makers to assess programs, content, social impact and the attainment of social objectives;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Recommends that Member States appoint a member of the community media sector to their national regulatory authorities so that community media's concerns can be addressed;~~deleted

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Encourages Member States to promote knowledge exchange between local, regional and national tiers of government;

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Asks Member State~~Suggests to include specific provisions for community media activities when defining 'must carry' obligations and in radio spectrum policy, as access to electronic communications networks and services and access to radio spectrum are key factors for community media activities;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Askdvises Member States to ~~includ~~examine specific provisions for community media activities when defining ‘must carry’ obligations;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Asks the Commission to take into account the notion of community media in the ongoing reform of the telecommunication sector’s regulatory framework as well as in the future legislation of the media sector;deleted

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Asks the Commission to take into account the notion of community media and measures to facilitate their development in the ongoing reform of the telecommunication sector’s regulatory framework as well as in the future legislation of the media sector; stresses that the decision regarding digital dividend allocation and the more general discussion concerning radio spectrum management must be compatible with the principle of a universal telecommunications service, ensuring prompt access to a wide range of services, including the community media;·

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Asks the Commission to take into account the notion of community media in the ongoing reform of the telectronic communication ~~sector'~~s regulatory framework as well as in the future legislation of the media sector;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas non-profit means that the primary objective of such media is to engage in activities of public and/or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit,

Amendment 60 #

Gyula HEGYI, Christa PRETS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. ~~Encourages~~Recognises that the sector tomay make more use of EU funding schemes, through the implementation of a number of specific programmes, such as the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, Lifelong Learning Programmes and others; stresses however that funding must come principally from national, local and/or other sources;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Article 20

20. Encourages the sector to make more use of EU funding schemes, such as the European Regional Development Fund, and the European Social Fund, as well as the possibility for education and training of journalists through the Lifelong Learning Programmes ~~and others~~;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Encourages the sector to make more use of EU funding schemes~~, such as the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, Lifelong Learning Programmes and others~~ in so far as they may contribute to the objectives of the community media;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Considers that the creation of a European Community Media Association would foster best practices exchange, including management and fund-raising skills, contribute to a better representation of the sector's interests before the EU institutions as well as promote EU legislation development in this field;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Proposes that the ~~Commission establishes a European~~Member States fund national Internet platforms through which to spread useful and relevant information for the sector, to facilitate networking ~~and exchange of~~because of the fragmentation of Community Media and exchange crossboarding best practices;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. ~~Proposes that~~Urges the Ccomm~~ission~~unity media to establishes a European Internet platform through which to spread useful and relevant information for the sector, to facilitate networking and exchange of best practices;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission for a regular dialogue with the sector at European level given the added value of community media for the implementation of the EU’s objectives and to support the sector’s participation in such discussions;deleted

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas accountable to the communityies means that community media must inform the communityies about their actions and decisions, justify them, and be penalised in the event of any misconduct,

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas there are major differences between Member States regarding Community media dissemination and impact, which are greatest in those Member States which clearly recognise their legal status and are aware of regarding their added value,

Amendment 9 #