2016/2072(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

- having regard to the Commission's study "Boosting the competitiveness of cultural and creative industries for growth and jobs" of June 2016 (EASME/COSME/2015/003),

Amendment 10 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas in its communication ‘Promoting cultural and creative sectors for growth and jobs in the EU’17 , the Commission recognises the key role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs)18 for the social and economic development of the EU~~; __________________ 17~~ and it's Member States; __________________ 17 COM(2012)537 final. COM(2012)537 final. 18 Referred to in the Commission communication as: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, performing and visual arts, publishing and radio.

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas in 2013 international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods amounted to up to 2.5 % of world trade and up to 5 % of imports in the EU, which represents EUR 85 billion, whereas that is causing serious damage to the creative industries, and whereas it has led to the loss of almost 400 000 jobs in the sector over the past 10 years and to losses of revenue running into several billion euros;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas in the industrial economy, investment was primarily focused on tangible goods, which were the main drivers of growth, while in today’s creative economy, intangible goods are the principal targets for investment, sources of value and drivers of growth; whereas the financing of CCIs should be seen in this context;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas education, cultural institutions and tourism play an important role in promoting cultural heritage, history and in particular diversity, which should be recognised for its richness, inspiring strength and development potential;

Amendment 103 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas even though the development of digital technology and infrastructure is a European policy priority, the dissemination of cultural and creative goods and services online through cultural institutions still needs to be improved;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)

Nb. whereas CCIs contribute to the maintenance and improvement of Europe's immense cultural, historical, and architectural heritage; CCS is important for the development of cultural diplomacy, the tourism industry and the promotion of national and local cultures, driving towards progress and the development of cities and regions;

Amendment 105 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the development, promotion and protection of CCIs in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;deleted

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Calls on the Commission~~Encourages the Member States to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and ~~on the EU to include~~emphasises, with that in mind, that the Commission can play a role in disseminating best practices from the Member States in this area and act as a forum for the sharing of best practices between nations; points out that the EU ought to take account of the development, promotion and protection of national CCIs in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 107 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. CStresses that the ultimate goal of most authors, performers and creators is primarily the human and societal development and prosperity rather than the potential economic gain, and therefore calls on the Commission to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the development, promotion and protection of CCIs in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the development, effective promotion and protection of CCIs in its strategic goals and overall p~~olitical prioritie~~riorities to fulfil their potential in terms of creating jobs and growth and their economic impact on other sectors;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive, coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS to boost the competitiveness and development of the cultural and creative industries, and on the EU to include the development, promotion and protection of CCIs in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. ante A. whereas the EU has to boost and invest in new sources of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas, in this respect, it should unlock the potential that remains largely untapped in creation of growth and jobs of creative and cultural industries, because of their significant impact in areas such as new business models, creativity and innovation, digitization, skills building;

Amendment 110 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop a coherent and long-term ~~industrial~~ policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the support, development~~, promotion~~ and pro~~tec~~motion of CCIs in its strategic goals, a~~nd overall political prioriti~~s required by article 167, §4 of the TFEU throughout all its policies and programmes;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the development, promotion and protection of CCIs and adequate funding for them in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 112 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States to develop a coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the CCS, and on the EU to include the development, promotion and protection of CCIs in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Highlights that it is a responsibility of the Parliament to define the major specific axes to be followed by the long- term industrial policy for CCS (as for example, public support and financing, interaction with the development of educational programmes, environment for stimulating entrepreneurial initiatives, mobility, modernisation of the legal framework etc.); suggests, to this end, to work towards a specific resolution providing such political inputs;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’provide a precise and sensible definition of CCIs, including nature and goals of those SMEs, and mentioning their own and unique strength to establish the shortest value chain between creators, artists, and the production, dissemination of creativity potential;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on ~~the following definition of CCI~~a definition of CCIs in line with the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating, producing and marketing value from intellectual property and contributing to the cultural and democratic dialogue. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts, as well as advertising, the dissemination of art and art therapy’;

Amendment 116 #

Petra KAMMEREVERT, Martina WERNER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on ~~the following~~a widely shared definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sect, adopted by societal and industrial stakeholders after a thorough participative discussion, open to technological and social evolution; recalls that such definition should be dynamic enough as to encompass not just existing forms ~~relying on~~of cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’services and products, but also developing ones; furthermore, the definition should be able to consider a rich variety of mechanisms for generating and distributing value, and avoid concentrating on any single such mechanism;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the ~~following~~latest definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creativ by UNESCO1a as activities whose principal purpose is production or reproduction, promotion, distribution or commercialization of goods, services and activities of a cultural, artistic or heritage-related nature. They include the following sectors: advertising, architecture, books (including scientific, technical and medical books), gaming, music, movie (inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;cluding motion picture production, post-production and distribution), newspapers and magazines (including business to client, business to business and news agencies), performing arts, radio, TV (programming, production and broadcasting including cable and satellite) and visual arts; __________________ 1a"Cultural times", The first global map of cultural and creative industries, UNESCO / Ernest & Young, December 2015, page 11; link: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MU LTIMEDIA/HQ/ERI/pdf/EY-Cultural- Times2015_Low-res.pdf

Amendment 118 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Calls on~~Points out that the Commission ~~to design its future polici~~could provide statistics that make it possible to compare the different situations in the Member States based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 119 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Julie WARD, Mary HONEYBALL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to ~~create~~generate continued innovation, wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have ~~dual~~multiple values, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, ~~and~~ strengthen European and regional identity, ~~while sustaining~~build social cohesion, andct as a driver of sustainable economic growth, contribut~~ing~~e substantially to in~~vestment, growth, innovation~~ novation and create significandt employment opportunities in the EU economy;

Amendment 120 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on universal cultural values, individual and/or collective creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value and cultural input from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts and activities, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven fashion and high-end industries, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts.

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating ~~value~~social and economic value in particular from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio- visual (including film, television, video games ~~and~~, multimedia and recorded music), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, live music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States to design ~~its~~their future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 123 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, diversity of cultural expressions, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 124 #

Luke Ming FLANAGAN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, native traditional sports (e.g. hurling in Ireland, an ancient sport that's mentioned even in Irish mythology, still played as an amateur sport today but with vast untapped tourist earning potential), books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 125 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘'cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’, software, advertising and marketing';

Amendment 126 #

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission to design its future policies based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘cultural and creative industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, cultural diversity, individual creativity, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property. They include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high-end industries and fashion, festivals, music, performing arts, books and publishing, radio and visual arts’;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Emphasises, nevertheless, that seeking to change the scope of a common definition (in particular by giving it a political role) is risky in that it might be broader or more restrictive than national definitions, which establish the legal and political framework for CCIs at Member State level; points out, in addition, that some national definitions provide a higher level of protection for SMEs in the sector and that the common definition could jeopardise that protection for SMEs;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify an ambitious range of specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic, labour-market, educational, participatory, communicative and societal ~~impact~~return of its policies and regulatory proposals related to the CCS~~, and to possibly~~; underlines that to this end it is necessary to research and identify alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of its policies ~~and regulatory proposals related to~~regarding CCS on all other domains of activity in the ~~CCS~~EU, and ~~to possibly identify~~on connected third countries; this would allow to develop alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics;

Amendment 13 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have d~~ual value, as they preserve and promote~~irect links to artists and creators, are most likely to foster cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional ~~identity, while sustaining social cohesion and~~sense of belonging, therefore may contribut~~ing~~e substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the ~~EU economy~~Union;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to ~~monitor and~~ analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of ~~its policies and~~relevant national policies and existing European regulatory proposals related to the CCS, and to possibly ~~identify~~update alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics;

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of ~~its~~their policies and regulatory proposals related to the CCS, and to possibly identify alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics;

Amendment 132 #

Emma McCLARKIN, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of its policies and regulatory proposals related to the CCS, and to possibly identify alternative data sources, using input from the Member States' cultural sectors, with a view to complementing and improving official statistics;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of its policies and regulatory proposals related to the CCS, and to possibly identify alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics, to ensure that the positive effects of public investment are understood more clearly and to provide the levels of analysis required to attract more private investment; underlines that CCIs often have complex business models that can present a challenge to traditional forms of funding;

Amendment 134 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural, economic and societal impact of its policies and regulatory proposals related to the CCS, and to possibly identify alternative data sources with a view to complementing and improving official statistics; considers it crucial to collect accurate data about the CCS in order to better determine its impact and dynamics and its role as driver of innovation and growth in the rest of the economy, thus helping improve its access to finance;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the need for setting up of statistical data on culture and cultural industries aimed at contributing to the cultural policy debate as well as to further emphasizing the economic potential of cultural and creative industries and their impact on social well-being;

Amendment 136 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Encourages the Commission and Eurostat to include the CCS in their yearly statistics and to publish a sectorial biennial report on the developments of CCIs in Europe;~~deleted

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

~~4. Encourages the Commission and Eurostat to include the CCS in their yearly statistics and to publish a sectoral biennial report on the developments of CCIs in Europe;~~deleted

Amendment 138 #

Kaja KALLAS, Angelika MLINAR, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Commission and Eurostat ~~to include the CCS in their yearly statistics~~in its endeavour to regularly analyse and measure the impact of culture and cultural policies for the whole CCS, developing new and pertinent criteria, and to publish a sectorial biennial report on the developments of CCIs in Europe;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Commission and Eurostat to include the CCS in their yearly statistics based on analysis of the value created by the CCIs that is adapted to the digital age and to publish a sectorial biennial report on the developments of CCIs in Europe;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European, national and regional identityies, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to creativity, investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU and it's Member States economyies;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Commission and Eurostat to include the CCS in their yearly statistics and to publish a sectorial biennial report on the developments of CCIs in Europe; Highlights the need to reinforce the work made by Eurostat and the Joint Research Centre to collect and produce information and data about the contribution of cultural and creative industries to other economic sectors;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to foresee a coordination effort in order to facilitate trans-national synergies such as cooperation projects, mobility opportunities or joint ventures in the field, taking into account the fact that Member States are using national classification systems for the activities belonging to the culture and creative industries;

Amendment 142 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls upon the Commission to introduce an umbrella scheme that bridges the gap between R&D, European creative content production and technological innovation in the media field and beyond; notes that such an umbrella scheme would foster the production of creative and competitive EU services, commercial and employment opportunities, and enhance access to market for SMEs and start-ups, while nourishing a pluralistic and diverse European landscape built on strong synergies between CCIs and technological innovation, strengthening the European Digital Single Market;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that the cultural and creative industries benefit considerably from public funding for culture, which also contributes significantly to cultural diversity in the European Union; urges the Commission and Member States therefore, within their respective spheres of competence, to continue a earmark an adequate share of their budgets for public funding for culture;

Amendment 144 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Points out that the atypical employment of cultural and creative artists is becoming increasingly common; urges the Commission and the Member States therefore, within their respective spheres of competence, to devote greater attention to legislative provisions regarding the employment and working conditions of cultural and creative artists and in particular their social protection; calls in addition for their position to be strengthened by means of collective representation;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore,~~Calls on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that t~~echnology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creator~~here is a two-way relationship between, on the one hand, technology and infrastructure, and on the other hand, the content provided by creators, authors, performers, and the plurality of citizens who intervene in the process; underlines that this relationship is strongly dependent on the continuously increasing interconnectivity provided by the whole system which allows to access and enjoy those contents; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a forward- looking legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that shall be able to takes into account the specificities of the sector and shall leads to an i~~mprovement~~ ncrease in the overall value generated by the cultural and creative sector, with particular regard to improving the remuneration of authors, performers and creators;

Amendment 147 #

Eva KAILI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that new technologyies and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creatohave enabled authors and creators to gain direct access to global audiences and have led to new forms of artistic and creative content, however recognises the importance of the creative procedure; calls, therefore, on the Commission to take an holistic approach in its examination of the legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and enables further innovation, both in content and in technology that will lead to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators, while enabling the sustainability of new business models which have emerged in recent years;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure ~~rely on~~enable creators to spread their content ~~provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in~~for free and to easily acquire a broad and international audience; points out that the creative sector has specificities and different challenges, notably arising from the different types of content and creative works and from the business models used; believes that any reform should strike the drig~~ital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators~~ht balance between all the interests involved and that authors, performers and right holders should be fairly remunerated for the use of their work on the internet without hampering innovation;

Amendment 149 #

Dominique BILDE, Nicolas BAY, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to ~~establish a legal framework for the value chain~~support the creation of industry-led guidelines, based on best practice, to improve transparency and fairness in value chains, updating them to take into account new viewing and listening practices in the digital age in a way that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen ~~European~~the national and regional identityies of the Member States, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy of the EU Member States;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure, allowing access to cultural and creative products, rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission ~~to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age~~, when implementing its policies, to implement a value chain approach to CCIs in the digital age and to establish a legal framework that takes into account the specificities of ~~the~~ sectors and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the quality content provided by creators~~; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement~~ at various levels of society: from the users of new technologies, to individuals who create content for a living, start-ups and major international production companies purchasing the r~~emuneration of authors and~~ights to the work of many different creators;

Amendment 152 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and ~~leads to an improvement in the~~guarantees a fair remuneration ofor authors ~~and creators~~, creators, performers and right holders, thus ensuring a thriving digital economy;

Amendment 153 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; ~~calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a~~highlights that the revised legal framework for ~~the value chain~~copyright in the digital age ~~that~~should takes into account the specificities of the sector and ~~leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators~~should ensure for authors and creators to be fairly remunerated for the use of their work on the internet without hampering innovation;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the ~~Commission to establish~~Member States to establish, if necessary, a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in ~~the~~, or protection of, the fair remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that digital technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of a~~uthors and creator~~ll parties involved in the creative process;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, on the~~refore, on the Commission~~ Member States to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration and legal protection of authors and creators for their works;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to a~~n improvement in the~~ fair remuneration of authors and creators and a better protection of creation;

Amendment 159 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an significant improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators and greater public awareness;

Amendment 16 #

Laurenţiu REBEGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have ~~dual~~multiple value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European, national and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 160 #

Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely in part on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators;

Amendment 161 #

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators, and to a fair sharing of value, without undermining new ways of creating;

Amendment 162 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators as well as to the strengthening of their contractual position vis-à-vis right holders;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that technology and infrastructure rely on the content provided by creators; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish a legal framework for the value chain in the digital age that takes into account the specificities of the sector and leads to an improvement in the remuneration of authors and creators, i.e. through the introduction of an unwaivable right of authors to remuneration;

Amendment 164 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages the Commission to establish legal provisions which create a fairer environment governing the transfer of rights and the contractual remuneration of authors and performers; calls therefore to create a contract adjustment mechanism, which allows authors and performers to claim additional remuneration in case the revenues yielded out of the exploitation of the works are disproportionally high compared to the remuneration agreed in the initial contract; recommends also to provide for a transparency obligation for publishers and producers to detail on a regular basis timely, adequate and comprehensive information on the exploitation of works, notably as regards modes of exploitation, revenues generated and remuneration due; calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of entitling unions or associations representing creators to a kind of collective bargaining related to the definition of appropriate remuneration; asks the Commission to introduce a rights reversion mechanism which would enable creators to terminate a contract, namely in case of lack of exploitation, lack of payment of the remuneration foreseen, in established case of inappropriate remuneration as well as lack of regular reporting;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for consideration to be given to the introduction of a fair work label to safeguard the earnings of those unable to claim copyright protection for their products or services, given the way in which CCI occupations are structured, calling on numerous individual self- employed operators, particularly in the case of design and advertising agencies, communications and games software engineering, event services, editorial teams and publishers;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses the need to work together and the importance of constantly sharing knowledge in promoting creativity, therefore recommends establishing a platform or working group with an aim of facilitating interaction and enabling the creation of a network for the exchange of information and best practices between Member States in search of ways to support and stimulate the creative industry, promote creativity as well as productivity at all levels;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Considers that the digital revolution has changed the way in which citizens and companies are related and has opened new opportunities for the CCS to develop new ideas and business models, attract new audiences and expand their markets;

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Commission to examine the possibility of entitling unions or associations representing creators to file legal complaints on behalf of creators;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that copyright and related rights constitute the legal framework for the European cultural and creative industries (CCIs) and form the basis for their ability to generate economic activity, competitiveness, employment, creativity and innovation; Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual and intrinsic value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising contentprovide for a common definition of 'public domain' to ensure legal certainty together with the widespread dissemination of cultural and creative services and products across the EU and beyond; accordingly, calls on the Commission to propose legal solutions which will suit authors, performers, creators, citizens, and industrial contributors to the creative process alike; such solutions should protect fundamentally authors, performers and creators, both economically and legally, avoid rigidities, dominant positions, and speculative behaviour at their expense ~~of creator~~, and be suited to the real costs of the productive process;

Amendment 171 #

Eva KAILI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will further strengthen these protections to suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to ~~make clear~~show that liability exemptions ~~can only~~ apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers- a~~nd not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;~~ s defined by the E-Commerce Directive and the case law of the CJEU- and not at the expense of creators, while it acknowledges that intermediary liability is a fundamental element of innovation and creative expression on the internet;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ARecalling that copyright is vital for the creative industry survival and good health, asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions, strengthening the legal framework in the digital world, which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to ~~create legal solutions which~~investigate solutions, in partnership with industry and consumer groups, that will suipport creators, right holders and consumers alike in ~~order to make clear that~~identifying where liability exemptions can ~~only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creato~~be appropriately applied to online service providers;

Amendment 174 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Ask~~Welcomes the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to servi's commitment to modernize the current copyright framework to adapt it to the digital age; believes that any adjustment should strike the right balance between the inherent value and appreciation of creative and artistic content with consumer rights and consumer access t~~hat play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators~~o diverse and legal content;

Amendment 175 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creatorall those involved in the process of creating, distributing and consuming content in the digital environment, in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to those engaging in commercial infringements of intellectual property rights by making use of revenue streams emanating from illegal activities;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike ~~in order~~, and therefore to mtake clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creatorsinto account, as regards the taxation of online platforms, the country of destination principle rather than the country of origin principle, which is only beneficial to large companies, often enabling them to avoid tax when it comes to funding audiovisual production;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Asks the Commission~~Suggests that the Member States, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will ~~suit~~meet the interests of creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Ask~~Urges the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, sustainable growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 180 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Asks the Commission, in view of the upcoming copyright reform, to create legal solutions which will suit creators, right holders, right users and consumers alike in order to make clear that liability exemptions can only apply to genuinely neutral and passive online service providers and not to services that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising content at the expense of creators;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

Amendment 182 #

Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

Amendment 183 #

Kaja KALLAS, Angelika MLINAR, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

Amendment 184 #

Angel DZHAMBAZKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

Amendment 185 #

Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Emphasises the opportunities that new ICT technologies such as big data, cloud computing, the Internet of things and other data-driven technologies can offer to the economy and society, especially if integrated with other sectors such as CCIs; stresses however that in order for CCIs to fully seize the potential for growth and jobs of new developments or technologies, the completion of the Digital Single Market must be a priority;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights that technology has reduced costs and barriers, thereby creating new opportunities for creators to produce, distribute, promote and finance their works; stresses therefore the need for the European Union to improve framework conditions for new innovative content platforms to emerge, in particular by improving legal certainty and reducing administrative burden;

Amendment 187 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Considers it crucial to adapt, strengthen and enforce rules on copyright and related rights in order to create an appropriate legal framework for the European cultural and creative industry and help it generate growth and jobs and become more competitive, creative and innovative;

Amendment 188 #

Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights the importance of the Digital single market to ensure that creative businesses take advantage of digital infrastructures in order to improve connectivity, to digitise information and integrate systems at all stages of product creation, transformation and use;

Amendment 189 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Highlights that the majority of organisations in the CCI sector are SMEs; stresses that SMEs often face major challenges with regard to rights clearance; asks the Commission, therefore, to simplify rights clearance systems in the upcoming copyright reform;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Β

BΒ. whereas CCIs have dual value, a~~s they~~nd should preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 190 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to propose an expanded set of specifically defined exceptions to the standard copyright framework, taking into account fundamental rights and the needs of contemporary society;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission to propose, in view of the ongoing review of the EU Enforcement framework, effective enforcement measures for the digital environment;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Highlights that research on right holders and intransparent rules on copyright represent administrative burdens entailing high expenses and a lot of efforts, especially for SMEs working on cross-border basis; recommends, therefore, to establish a common pan- European database with all available information on right holders for each sector in order to facilitate rights clearance;

Amendment 193 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Commission to place greater stress on helping SME, SVE and micro-enterprises in the cultural and creativity sector to identify, assess and protect the value of their intellectual property rights;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Notes that, ultimately, the country of origin principle can, via tax dumping, weaken both creators and their creations at national level;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. Stresses that Directive 2014/26/EU has led to improvements in the rights clearance system of musical works in the online environment; asks the Commission to also improve good governance, efficiency, transparency and accountability of collective rights management organisations in other sectors;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy ~~and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities~~is an issue that still requires our utmost attention; welcomes the industry heavy investments to design solutions to tackle piracy and encourages the industry to continue its efforts; stresses that counterfeiting remains a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike and can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that increasing piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that in addition to the loss of revenue for industries and consequent loss of jobs, these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities cause serious losses in terms of economic activity, growth and employment and can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed;

Amendment 199 #

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns ~~that need to be addressed~~for consumers, jeopardise the financing of cultural creation and the maintaining of a strong European cultural diversity and are often linked to organised crime; underlines therefore the need to reinforce the fight against these illegal activities, especially when they are on a commercial scale, and to find appropriate solutions with the relevant stakeholders;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

- having regard to the Communication by the Committee of the Regions on promoting cultural and creative sectors of 30 May 2013,

Amendment 20 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European ~~and~~, regional and local identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed and seriously hamper innovation and therefore also the availability of legal goods and services of the creative industries to all citizens;

Amendment 201 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; ~~stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed;~~

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that ~~piracy and~~large-scale counterfeiting remains a serious concern for CCIs ~~and citizens alike~~; stresses that these products of such illicit activities ~~can~~, when fraudulently introduced in commercial channels, can damage consumer rights and cause safety and health ~~concern~~risks that need to be addressed;

Amendment 203 #

Emma McCLARKIN, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns, as well as a loss in revenue, that need to be addressed;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can be the cause of safety and ~~health~~security concerns ~~that need to be addressed~~;

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs ~~and citizens alike~~; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns that need to be addressed;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights that piracy and counterfeiting remain a serious concern for CCIs and citizens alike; stresses that these illicit activities can cause safety and health concerns, in addition to the economic and social ones, that need to be addressed;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers it essential a strong commitment from the European Commission and the Member States to eradicate special tax treatments that allow certain enterprises, such as some technology giants, to reduce the payment of taxes to a minimum;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness- raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;deleted

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially, t~~o investment, growth~~hrough a wide range of mechanisms creating and enhancing value, to prosperity, innovation and employment in the EU economy;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; cCalls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting; more over recommends to start a public discussion on fair use and a European regulation in copyright laws for exceptions and modern sharing culture;

Amendment 211 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recommends considering the~~Asks the Commission to coordinate an in-depth participatory analysis about how most sanction-based instr~~oduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of~~uments have not been able to stop the deterioration of current business models; underlines that such an analysis is a necessary precondition for redesigning the CCI legal framework and a system of guarantees ~~on traceability~~that can act as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increas~~ing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders~~e the protection of authors, performers and creators; reminds that any law- enforcement model must distinguish between commercial and non-profit activities, must avoid criminalizing large sectors of the population, must respect fundamental individual rights, including privacy, and must strike a balance between guaranteeing access and providing control; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns a~~gainst piracy and counterfeiting~~bout the need to protect the cultural and creative environment; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;

Amendment 212 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recommends consi~~Underlinges the ~~introduction of toughe~~need to monitor san~~ctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability~~d strengthen the application of existing enforcement rules across the EU as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting~~; stresses, finally, the nee~~ and to work together to collate further evidence on the scale and scope of civil IP infringement and IP crime in order to identify trends and target them more effectively, whilst encouraging rights holders and service providers to ensure that there are easy routes to accessing legal content, to discourage piracy; stresses, finally, the need for further international engagement and to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters, as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting and urges the EU, Member States and third countries to cooperate more closely to protect creative industries and to track organised piracy networks more easily: emphasises, lastly, the cost and revenue losses for Member State budgets due to these illegal activities;

Amendment 214 #

Kaja KALLAS, Angelika MLINAR, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; Considers that the fight against piracy needs to be combined with policies that improve access to legal content ; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;

Amendment 215 #

Marc JOULAUD, Milan ZVER, Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Anne SANDER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in ~~the fight against~~combating online counterfeiting and to develop tools enabling consumers to find and easily access legal online counte~~rfeiting~~nt;

Amendment 216 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for large-scale commercial counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;

Amendment 217 #

Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Recommends for tangible goods considering the introduction of tougher sanctions and the promotion of a system of guarantees on traceability as a deterrent for counterfeiters as well as increasing the damages and compensation awarded to right holders; calls on the EU and the Member States to launch awareness-raising campaigns against piracy and counterfeiting; stresses, finally, the need to involve all digital actors in the fight against online counterfeiting;

Amendment 218 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Recalls that the cultural and creative industries are characterised by a small enterprise size, with more than 95% of the businesses employing less than 10 people1a; calls therefore on the Commission to develop an innovation- friendly business environment for SMEs in the CCIs by reducing administrative burdens and to support the development of new business models; __________________ 1aStudy on "Boosting the competitiveness of cultural and creative industries for growth and jobs"

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission to propose effective measures to fight online piracy, in particular to ensure that online services which host content apply effective means in order to remove unlicensed content from their services and, once removed, to take action to prevent this content from reappearing;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas CCIs have dual value, as, domestically, they preserve and promote cultural and linguistic diversity, and strengthen European and regional identity, while sustaining social cohesion and contributing substantially to investment, growth, innovation and employment in the EU economy, and, externally, they help promote the EU’s shared values, such as respect for human rights, diversity and equality;

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Notes that one of the most effective ways of combating piracy is to make more legal technologies available to users through new supply policies;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Considers that it is essential to overcome silo thinking in traditional policy areas and to promote cultural and creative spillovers;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘learning labs’, creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the ~~Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences,~~Member States to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘learning labs’, creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘'learning labs’, ', creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers~~; asks, moreover, for support for the development~~, reinforcing the existing general-purpose structures and funds for the promotion of entrepreneurship, and adapting them to the specific needs of cultural and creative start-ups; asks, moreover, for support for the development of an innovation friendly, protective legal environment for the creation and experimentation of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 225 #

Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘'learning labs’', creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships between producers, distributors, promoters in CCS together with traditional startup experts and for support for the activities of business incubators, both at regional, national and EU level;

Amendment 226 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectoral cooperation by establishing ‘learning and creativity labs’, creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 227 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘learning labs’, creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, ~~research centre~~heritage organisations, tourism sector, research centres, vocational education, schools, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 228 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in their respective spheres of competences, to promote cross-sectorial cooperation by establishing ‘learning labs’, creative hubs, co-working spaces, networking programmes and cultural and creative clusters and networks at regional, national, European and international level in order to foster interaction between micro-, small, medium and large enterprises and between non-profit organisations and commercial companies in the CCS, traditional craftsmanship, research centres, universities, investors and policy makers; asks, moreover, for support for the development of new business models, products and services through strategic partnerships and for support for the activities of business incubators;

Amendment 229 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas European culture and arts refer to 3000 years of shared cultural heritage, transmit knowledge and values and contribute to safeguard tangible and intangible evidence of the manmade and natural world for current and future generations;

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Considers it is essential for the EU and its Member States to maintain the possibility of preserving and developing their cultural and audio-visual policies, and to do so in the context of their existing laws, standards and agreements, including the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; calls, therefore, for the exclusion of cultural and audio-visual services, including those provided online, to be clearly stated in agreements between the Union and third countries; emphasises, in this context, the need to keep the cultural and audio-visual sectors outside the scope of the negotiating mandate for general free trade agreements, while pointing out that cultural and creative works are not goods like any others;

Amendment 231 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Recalls the importance of interoperability and standards to ensure a level playing field and fair conditions of equal access to new platforms and equipments, to avoid high levels of concentration among distribution operators, leading to the limitation to diversified contents; calls on the Commission to promote interoperability between platforms and digital environments and to develop standards able to create a marketplace favourable to innovation in the various cultural sectors concerned;

Amendment 232 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission to promote and support the creation, improvement and expansion of infrastructure which is key to supporting creative industries in Europe, particularly ensuring the expansion of high speed broadband to rural and remote areas;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Highlights the uneven distribution of women in jobs and careers in the different types of cultural industries due to the division between creative and non- creative roles, prestigious and non- prestigious ones on the basis of social stereotypes;

Amendment 234 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 as a prominent opportunity to enhance the European excellence in ICCs and to stress the need for an adequate programming and financing;

Amendment 235 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Underlines that digital and online platforms offer great opportunities for the CCS to develop new business models, attract new audiences and expand their markets both within the European Union and in the third countries;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve a regulatory environment which does not impose undue burdens on a sector which consists mainly of freelancers, micro and small and medium enterprises;

Amendment 237 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. In this regard, underlines the need to share the European experience in cultural capacity building and governance and to remove obstacles to mobility of artists and culture professionals;

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Notes the success of tax relief schemes for the cultural and creative sector existing in certain Member States; encourages all Member States to introduce such schemes;

Amendment 239 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)

Digitisation of the cultural and creative industries

Amendment 24 #

Luigi MORGANO, Christian EHLER, José BLANCO LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries ~~and builds bridges between societies and contribute to better mutual understanding~~;

Amendment 240 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Notes that the digital era offers new possibilities for CCIs through platforms, development of new business models and the use of innovative digital tools to access cultural content; reminds that this transformation also poses challenges to the traditional sectors such as book publishing and print media; highlights that CCIs are not yet tapping all potential of the digitisation and are not making full use of digital tools;

Amendment 241 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls on the Commission to ensure a modernized legislative framework in order to encourage the adoption of digital technologies and ensure that CCIs adapt successfully to digital changes; stresses in this regard that the Commission's "Digitising the industry" plan should fully take the specific characteristics of the CCIs into account;

Amendment 242 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)

9c. Highlights the growing importance of platforms for the CCIs; calls on the Commission to maintain an innovation- friendly policy and foster competition between online platforms; highlights in this regard the importance of transparency, interoperability between and access to platforms;

Amendment 243 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)

9d. Calls on the Commission to promote the development and usage of free and open source software and open standards in order to foster innovation and growth in CCIs;

Amendment 244 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Mircea DIACONU, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)

9e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the digitisation of cultural content, such as digital libraries, thus providing European citizens with broad access to content and promoting cultural and media literacy;

Amendment 245 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. calls on the Member States to develop or implement a legal and institutional framework for creative artistic activity through the adoption or application of a number of coherent and comprehensive measures in respect of contracts, social security, sickness insurance, direct and indirect taxation and compliance with European rules, in order to improve the mobility of artists across the EU;

Amendment 246 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Reaffirms its position to exclude cultural and audiovisual services from any free trade agreement between the Union and third countries, since cultural and creative works are not goods like any others;

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Recognises that many cities and regions across Europe have developed substantial plans for their local CCIs; calls on the Commission to draw on best practice from these strategies;

Amendment 248 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls for the European External Action Service to harness the potential of cultural diplomacy by promoting and improving the competitive strength of European CCS;

Amendment 249 #

Helga TRÜPEL, Michel REIMON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; ~~encourages~~stresses that learners of all ages should also be able to refresh and update their skills and achieve new ones, notably through lifelong learning programmes; encourages therefore the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students ~~in cultural and arts disciplin~~of all ages to acquire comprehensive training in creative arts disciplines;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas c~~ultural diplomacy~~ooperation in all cultural and creative domains eases and strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries ~~and builds bridges between societies and contribute to better~~, fostering mutual understanding and common projects;

Amendment 250 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that the creative ~~skills need to be learnt~~drive is present in every human being, and needs to be nurtured, protected and stimulated from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in ~~cultural and arts disciplines~~all paths of learning to acquire comprehensive training in cultural and artistic activities, according to their preferences;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills ~~need to~~can be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents~~; encourages the Member States~~, but that the acquisition of such skills should not adversely affect but rather complement the basic reading, writing and mathematical skills; encourages the Member States, in conformity with Article 6 TFEU, which identifies education as a national prerogative, to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 252 #

Emma McCLARKIN, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages ~~the~~ Member States to ~~improve their~~develop the teaching of media literacy and digital skills throughout their education systems, whilst improving overarching training, learning and qualification systems, to enabl~~ing~~e students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 253 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills ~~need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents~~can be encouraged at all stages in life; encourages the Member States to ~~improve their~~better connect all training, learning and qualification systems, and opportunities enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to ~~acquire comprehensive training~~develop their own talent;

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be ~~learnt~~activated from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 255 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to promote the incorporation of creativity and innovation at all levels of education and training, foster greater knowledge of the CCI in school curricula and improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 256 #

Zigmantas BALČYTIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to ensure that creative societies can be set up and are made accessible; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative and practical skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents and abilities; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training;

Amendment 258 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training, improving the quality of educational systems and promoting equality at every level of education and training in the EU Member States;

Amendment 259 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that creative skills need to be learnt from an early age in order to lay the foundations for the continuous renewal of creative talents; encourages the Member States to improve their training, learning and qualification systems, enabling students in cultural and arts disciplines to acquire comprehensive training; foster the creation and the support to vet provider able to create a direct link between school and enterprises;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries and builds bridges between societies, stimulates people-to-people contacts and contribute to better mutual learning and understanding; further emphasizes the important role of culture in EU external policy in promoting global cultural citizenship as well as intercultural and interreligious dialogue; welcomes in this regard the new EU strategy for international cultural relations;

Amendment 260 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Draws attention that a number of reports suggest a lack of necessary entrepreneurship and cross-cutting skills among graduates in cultural and arts disciplines, as well as insufficient knowledge of copyright laws and means of their protection; encourage the Members States and educational institutions to address this gap by means of adjusting teachings programmes and ensure continuous professional training helping CCIs to protect and monetise creativity;

Amendment 261 #

Krystyna ŁYBACKA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States to increase support for teachers in developing the creative and innovative capabilities of young people, by modernising teaching processes and providing support for cooperation between schools, with a view to exchanging the most effective methods and practices for stimulating creativity and innovation;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underlines the need to include media literacy in school curricula and institutions of cultural education, and supports competitions and initiatives at national, regional or local level, aimed at empowering citizens to develop critical thinking and understanding by stimulating their creativity and capacity of expression;

Amendment 263 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Stresses that a lack of business skills still poses a major challenge for many entrepreneurs within CCIs; highlights in this regard the importance to strengthen the business, financial, marketing and management skills of creative entrepreneurs and to better integrate creative with entrepreneurial education;

Amendment 264 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Recalls to Member States the importance of including art, music, theatre and film education in school curricula, as a key factor to develop knowledge of cultural heritage, artistic practices and expressions, and soft skills geared to creativity and innovation;

Amendment 265 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Encourages Member States to promote better knowledge on creative industries in the education system and support creativity through education, thus helping people to value creative industries products and services;

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Stresses the need to implement a constant exchange of best practises, promoting mutual knowledge and transfer of skills in the collaboration between creative enterprises, through competitiveness clusters, excellence initiatives and networking, thereby encouraging different sectors to work together;

Amendment 267 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Recalls that partnerships with education can also contribute to a stimulating learning environment and to the integration of marginalised communities, as well as offer opportunities for people in deprived neighbourhoods;

Amendment 268 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. In this regard highlights the importance of education inclined towards combining the development of key entrepreneurial skills with critical understanding of the cultural and creative industries;

Amendment 269 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; ~~calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector;~~

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy can be a tool with which Member States can strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries ~~and~~, builds bridges between societies and contribute to better mutual understanding;

Amendment 270 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector~~make it easier, by simplifying the rules and/or providing tax incentives, for SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors to hire young people and offer them work/training contracts ; points out that as regards youth employment, the Youth Employment Initiative has not had the effects hoped for as in some Member States the youth unemployment rate remains very high (50.1% in Greece) and in other countries such as France has even increased since the introduction of the Youth Employment Initiative (22.8% in 2014 as against 21.5% in 2011);

Amendment 271 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and ~~reindustrialisation~~in particular notes the growing opportunities in the cultural and creative sector created by the digital environment for young people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector;

Amendment 272 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding ~~you~~the employment ~~and~~of disadvantaged individuals, including young people, as well as reindustrialisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector;

Amendment 273 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the ~~CCIs in the Youth Employment I~~m in all appropriate initiatives and to ~~provid~~increase significantly the funds tofor facilitateing careers, knowledge-building and training in this sector;

Amendment 274 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment ~~and reindustrialisation;~~ calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~inclu~~consider the ~~CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector~~special opportunities offered by the whole CCS in the framework for example of the Youth Employment Initiative;

Amendment 275 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector;

Amendment 276 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector; calls for more effective use to be made of the resources provided for under the Youth Guarantee scheme;

Amendment 277 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the CCIs in the Youth Employment Initiative and to provide funds to facilitate careers and training in this sector; by creating apprenticeship schemes, facilitating mobility and exchange through mentorship and traineeship programmes;

Amendment 278 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

Amendment 279 #

Arne GERICKE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Notes the high proportion of women in the creative industries and in particular the situation of mothers who are self-employed or returning to work (‘mompreneurs’);

Amendment 28 #

Laurenţiu REBEGA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy strengthens the bilateral and multilateral relations between European and third countries and builds bridges between societies and contribute to better mutual understanding;

Amendment 280 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Adds furthermore that funding opportunities for training in this sector already exist, notably through the European Structural and Investment Funds, and that it is thus a question of optimising their management and distribution in order to reach an optimal level of efficiency;

Amendment 281 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to secure the preservation of traditional European savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 282 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~secure~~respect the cultural diversity offered by CCS, to include in their pr~~eserva~~iorities the promotion of traditional European ~~savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents~~, national, regional and local savoir-faire, including the variety linked to linguistic expressions and traditions, and to continue the common effort to boost vocational training;

Amendment 283 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of the traditional ~~European~~ savoir-faire of the peoples of Europe, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 284 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of traditional European savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS, to encourage and facilitate transmission of know-how, and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 285 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of traditional European savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents; to this end, underlines that strong strategic links must be cultivated between cultural policy and the social and productive resources that local communities can mobilize;

Amendment 286 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation and heritage of traditional European savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re- valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents and new professional competences as, for example, "excellence" craftsmanship in the construction sector, for conservation and restoration;

Amendment 287 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. CReminds that one of the main challenges faced by the sector of cultural heritage is the gradual extinction of traditional skills and crafts and calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of traditional European savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 288 #

Laurenţiu REBEGA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of traditional European, regional and national savoir-faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 289 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to secure the preservation of traditional skills and European savoir- faire, preserving and promoting the craft trades linked to the CCS and to re-valorise vocational training and a highly skilled workforce in order to attract talents;

Amendment 29 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy, based on mutual respect of values and specificities, strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries and builds bridges between societies and contribute to long-term better mutual understanding, since culture and education blend deeply into each other in all countries engaged in true cultural exchanges;

Amendment 290 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Is concerned about the potential implications of the future Treaty on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) since the US, unlike the EU, is not a signatory to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (UNESCO); calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure compliance with the terms of this Convention in the context of the TTIP negotiations;

Amendment 291 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness about career opportunities in manufacturing jobs through awareness campaigns and policies promoting the transmission of knowledge in order to preserve craftsmanship in these sectors;deleted

Amendment 292 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness about career opportunities in ~~manufacturing jobs~~cultural and creative jobs, both full-time, non-permanent and part-time, through awareness campaigns and policies promoting the transmission of knowledge in order to preserve craftsmanship in these sectors;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States and regional authorities to raise awareness about career opportunities in manufacturing jobs through awareness campaigns and policies promoting the transmission of knowledge in order to preserve and develop craftsmanship in these sectors;

Amendment 294 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness about career opportunities in manufacturing jobs linked to CCS through awareness campaigns and policies promoting the transmission of knowledge in order to preserve craftsmanship in these sectors;

Amendment 296 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness about career opportunities in artisanal and manufacturing jobs through awareness campaigns and policies promoting the transmission of knowledge in order to preserve craftsmanship in these sectors;

Amendment 297 #

Angel DZHAMBAZKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Calls on the Commission to support Member States with the further improvement and/or creation of an adequate and modern infrastructure for the purpose of sustaining Europe's creative and culture industries;

Amendment 298 #

Emma McCLARKIN, Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal learning, ensuring that cultural and creative activities are carefully blended into the educational model; reminds that culture and creativity are essential for motivating the most effective learning mechanism, based in the active, personal interest of the learner; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 299 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal learning, in particular closing the gap between STEM and arts subjects to support the development of technical careers in the creative industries and creative careers in the STEM sector, which are vital for the growth of Europe's CCS; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)

- having regard to the new Strategy for international cultural relations presented by the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in June 2016,

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas cultural diplomacy strengthens the bilateral relations between European and third countries ~~and~~, builds bridges between societies and contributes to better mutual understanding, while also being capable of acting as a driver of economic and social growth;

Amendment 300 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal learning; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence and promote exchanges among professions in the sector including in third countries, and to attract and develop creative talent;

Amendment 301 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to follow up on Erasmus+ incentives to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal learning; ~~recommends the creation within higher~~encourages higher education and professional education institutions ~~of joint~~to cross programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology~~, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence~~ and relevant economic fields;

Amendment 302 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education, non-formal and in ~~non-~~formal learning; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 303 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States, in conformity with Article 6 TFEU and where necessary depending on the national situation, to promote cross- sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non- formal learning; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 304 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectoral approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal learning; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes and/or intersectoral workshops between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 305 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Members States to promote cross-sectorial approaches between different areas in formal education and in non-formal, informal and lifelong learning; recommends the creation within higher education institutions of joint programmes between arts and culture, science, engineering, technology, business and other relevant fields; stresses the need to support centres of excellence;

Amendment 306 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses that given the existing average EU gender pay (16.1% in 2014) and pension gaps (40.2%) women face similar barriers in the cultural and creative industries such as gender pay and pension gaps, access to finance, stereotypes, training and lifelong learning as in other economic sectors;

Amendment 307 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Stresses that digitisation and media convergence create new opportunities for access, distribution and promotion of European works and emphasises the importance of guaranteeing funding for the digitisation, preservation and online availability of European cultural heritage;

Amendment 308 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Points out that women working in the cultural and creative industries experience gender pay and career development gap, in particular in higher positions and on boards;

Amendment 309 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools and businesses in the field of CCS; recommends the development, but especially the monitoring, of work- learn trajectories; stresses that public authorities at national level must make efforts to simplify the administrative and fiscal regulations so as to encourage SMEs to engage in training and then hiring apprentices; suggests that it should also be possible to introduce specific incentives for businesses that give priority to local and national production tied to a particular cultural heritage;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas CCIs contribute ~~to Europe’s ‘soft power’ in their role as ambassadors of European values – such as culture, creativity, quality, excellence, craftsmanship – on the world stage~~also to develop Europe’s image in the world – often based on the valorisation of its cultural heritage, its creativity in arts and performing arts, as well as its craftsmanship, in establishing a fruitful dialogue with CCIs from other countries;

Amendment 310 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools and businesses in the field of CCS; underlines the need to go beyond sectorial approaches, embedding cultural and creative activities in all fields of learning and activity, developing a democratic, participatory culture which is transversal to all social, professional and learning paths, fertilizing the whole society; recommends the development of work- learn trajectories;

Amendment 311 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools, universities and businesses in the field of CCS and ensure a better match between the supply of skills and the demands of the labour market to boosting the sector's competitive potential; recommends the development of work- learn trajectories;

Amendment 312 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between art~~istic schools~~s education and businesses in the field of CCS, including through artists residencies in business settings and education settings; recommends the development of ~~work- learn trajectori~~dual education schemes;

Amendment 313 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools, training workshops and businesses in the field of CCS; recommends the development of work- learn trajectories;

Amendment 314 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools, VET providers and businesses in the field of CCS; recommends the development of work- learn trajectories;

Amendment 315 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Encourages the Members States to promote cooperation between artistic schools, VET provider and businesses in the field of CCS; recommends the development of work- learn trajectories;

Amendment 316 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Remembers that in most of the cultural and creative industries, and specifically in the media and culture sector, part-time and fixed-duration contracts, temporary work and economically dependent self-employment has spread rapidly; Remembers that the ILO has demanded that "fundamental principles and rights at work apply to all workers in the media and culture sector, regardless of the nature of their employment relationship"; Calls on the Commission and Member States to improve the social protection of these workers and to adapt social security schemes to the specificities of creative work, particularly in the digital world;

Amendment 317 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Recommends the design and the adoption of policies aimed at increasing the level of cultural participation of EU citizens, which in many Member States is still critically low; stresses that this would imply benefits both in terms of fostering more creative talents and securing a larger and stronger demand base for EU cultural and creative products;

Amendment 318 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to promote, in particular by means of information and awareness-raising campaigns, the participation of women in the cultural and creative industries which are stereotypically considered 'male', such as audio-visual, music production, new media and digital industry;

Amendment 319 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Reiterates the enormous potential of synergies between STEM and ICT sectors and the fields of arts and design, and the creative industries, making STEM education into STEAM education, emphasizing the potential of such synergies bringing more young people, particularly women and girls into STEM fields;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas CCIs contribute to ~~Europe’s ‘~~international relations increasingly based in the reciprocal exercise of 'soft power’' in their role as ambassadors of ~~European~~world-wide values – such as culture, creativity, quality, excellence, craftsmanship – on the world stage;

Amendment 320 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls for the creation of a "European Award for creative and cultural industries" designed as the "Franco-German Prize for creative and cultural industries";

Amendment 321 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Underlines the huge potential of women innovators and entrepreneurs and the important role they can play in the cultural and creative industries; Encourages the Member States to offer appropriate financial support and training to women intending to build a career in the field of cultural and creative industries, in order to encourage and boost female entrepreneurship in this sector;

Amendment 322 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Supports the request made by the EESC calling on the European Commission to put forward an ambitious legislative package on mobility providing an appropriate solution to the problems of mobility within the EU for CCI workers and easing visa procedures for exchanges with third countries, guaranteeing basic social and labour standards;

Amendment 323 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Emphasises the role which chambers of skilled trades and craft trades, chambers of commerce, entrepreneur networks and associations can play in developing such cooperation between higher education and enterprises in the cultural and creative sector;

Amendment 324 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Suggests the creation of an Erasmus "Young innovators" to promote exchanges and innovation in the field of culture and creation;

Amendment 325 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Takes note of the Communication from the Commission entitled 'A new skills agenda for Europe: Working together to strengthen human capital, employability and competitiveness', sharing the view that "in a fast-changing global economy, skills will to a great extent determine competitiveness and the capacity to drive innovation, they are a pull factor for investment and a catalyst in the virtuous circle of job creation and growth, they are key to social cohesion"; Considers it necessary to pay special attention to creative skills in the revision of the Key Competences Framework and the European Qualifications Framework;

Amendment 326 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Highlights the importance of networking and sharing best practices, mentorship, female role models and peer- to-peer support for women entrepreneurs in the field of cultural and creative industries;

Amendment 327 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Calls to encourage residence programme for artists in educational establishments to favour creative vocations and dissemination of art and ideas in Europe and in the contemporary world;

Amendment 328 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)

15d. Encourages initiatives such as the Italian one, named "Cultural bonus" endowed with 500 euros, available to any 18 years old young people, including non- Italian European Union citizens living in Italy, to be spent only on "culturally enriching activities" such as museums, galleries, archaeological and heritage sites, books and films;

Amendment 329 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas CCIs contribute to ~~Europe’s~~the ‘soft power’ of European countries in their role as ambassadors of European ~~value~~civilisation and its component parts – such as culture, creativity, quality, pluralism, excellence, and craftsmanship – on the world stage;

Amendment 330 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that participation in all EU funded programmes is open to CCIs, but that this participation should still to be considered below its potential; asks the Commission as a first step to create a one stop shop – e.g. a website – highlighting different funding opportunmicrocredit is often the most effective tool for initiating many kinds of cultural and creative activities; highlights that crowdfunding can become a solid tool for facilitating the involvement of large sectors of society in financing of cultural and creative projects, and that accordingly the authorities should encourage it; underlines that widespread programmes of such kind allow to stimulate a plurality of ideas and initiatives, testing their viability in real life; stresses that in order to support the scaling-up of the corresponding activities fmor ~~CCIs, as this would increase awareness and accessibility of funding for CCIs~~e specific financing tools can be focussed at a later stage on those cultural and creative services and products who have actually emerged as viable;

Amendment 331 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 332 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 333 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 334 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

Amendment 335 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that participation in all EU funded and cofunded programmes is open to CCIs, but that this participation should still to be considered below its potential; asks the Commission as a first step to create a one stop shop – e.g. a website – highlighting different funding opportunities for CCIs, as this would increase awareness and accessibility of funding for CCIs;

Amendment 336 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that participation in all EU funded programmes is open to CCIs, but that this participation should ~~still to be considered below its potential~~remain below its potential especially because of the lack of information; asks the Commission as a first step to create a one stop shop – e.g. a website – highlighting different funding opportunities for CCIs, as this would increase awareness and accessibility of funding for CCIs;

Amendment 337 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that participation in all EU funded programmes is open to CCIs, ~~but that this participation should still to be considered below its potential; asks the Commission as a first step to create a~~and asks the Commission as a first step to join forces between the different DGs in charge of SMEs and create an up-dated one stop shop – e.g. a website – highlighting different funding opportunities for CCIs, as this would increase awareness and accessibility of funding for CCIs;

Amendment 338 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Notes that participation in all EU funded programmes is open to CCIs, but that this participation should still to be considered below its potential; asks the ~~Commission~~Member States as a first step to create a one stop shop – e.g. a website – highlighting different funding opportunities for CCIs, as this would increase awareness and accessibility of funding for CCIs;

Amendment 339 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes that crowdsourcing for CCIs is a good addition to traditional sources of financial support; calls therefore on the Commission to continue monitoring the development of the crowdfunding market, to coordinate the different regulatory approaches, to ensure appropriate clarity on the application of EU rules, to develop best practice and to consider coming up with a new regulatory instrument, if necessary; points nevertheless out that it cannot replace sustainable public and private funding for CCIs;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas cultural and creative industries are at the core of a dual and delicate ecosystem between large groups internationally competitive and innovative SMEs and start up, which constantly renew the area, preserve and promote diversity, create jobs, but are sometimes fragile, particularly in their access to markets and finance;

Amendment 340 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Notes that different models of crowdfunding (donation, reward, lending, equity) witness a rapid growth in Europe and became an important mean of financing of CCS start-ups and innovations; encourages the Member States to promote this instrument in line with Commission recommendations, to remove regulatory hurdles, engage public institutions and to better use the possibilities of institutional crowdfunding;

Amendment 341 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission to encourage all EU Member States to conduct more effective informational campaign for funding, in particular Horizon 2020 and ESIFs, for the purpose to raise the awareness and to stimulate the application on EU projects in academic and scientific circles.

Amendment 342 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses the need to strengthen government policies in support of the CCS and improve culture budgets; Points out that public funding has suffered severe budget cuts in the Member States, posing a serious threat over European culture and creative work;

Amendment 343 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Recognises the important role played by not-for-profit, cooperative and social enterprises in the CCIs and therefore, calls for any distinction in EU structural and social funding, which could limit the eligibility of these structures, to be avoided;

Amendment 344 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses the importance of a sectorial approach of the Creative Europe program and encourages the Commission to continue the ongoing discussions with some sectors, including the one of music;

Amendment 345 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Highlights the importance of alternative funding options for CCIs, such as crowdfunding and crowd-investment;

Amendment 346 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. regrets the lack of, -notably in the audiovisual field-, a program combining Horizon 2020 -which supports and aims to strengthen the technological innovation-, and Creative Europe, -which aims the creative content; suggests that these two dimensions could be jointed through a specific framework scheme that should: • involve both technological and creative sectors • facilitate exchanges, capacity and collaboration between media technology experts and creative experts, • promote cooperation with -and between- start-ups and SMEs, • support projects that can be realized in a short time, from their demonstration phase to their commercial implementation;

Amendment 347 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Notes that the mid-term review of the MFF and the implementation reports of EU programmes should be regarded as two interconnected parts of the same process; notes that, particularly for Creative Europe, Horizon 2020 and the Structural Funds, the role and impact of CCIs should be specifically evaluated and further promoted; stresses that this process should provide a solid and coherent basis for the revision of the MFF and the future EU programme’s architecture post 2020;deleted

Amendment 348 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Notes that the mid-term review of the MFF and the implementation reports of EU programmes should be regarded as two interconnected parts of the same process; notes that, particularly for Creative Europe, Horizon 2020 and the Structural Funds (ERDF and ESF), the role and impact of CCIs on growth, employment and territorial cohesion should be specifically evaluated and further promoted; stresses that this process should provide a solid and coherent basis for the revision of the MFF and the future EU programme’'s architecture post 2020;

Amendment 349 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to ~~fully exploit potential synergies existing between EU policies, so as to effectively use the funding available~~increase funding under EU programmes - such as Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility, Erasmus +, Creative Europe and COSME - and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) ~~to support more projects in the field of CCIs~~;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas creative industries in Europe provide more than 12 million full- time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA);deleted

Amendment 350 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to fully exploit potential synergies existing between EU policies, so as to effectively use the funding available under EU programmes - such as Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility, Erasmus +, EaSI, Creative Europe and COSME - and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) to support more projects in the field of CCIs;

Amendment 351 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the Commission to ~~fully exploit potential synergies existing between EU policies, so as to effectively use~~rationalise the management of the funding available under EU programmes - such as Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility, Erasmus +, Creative Europe and COSME - and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs), which are often poorly used, which results in a substantial loss for potential investments seeking to support more high-quality projects in the field of CCIs;

Amendment 352 #

Luigi MORGANO, Christian EHLER, Petra KAMMEREVERT

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls on the ~~Commission~~Member States to fully exploit potential synergies existing between ~~EU policies, so as to effectively use~~their various culture policies and to call on the funding available under EU programmes - such as Horizon 2020, the Connecting Europe Facility, Erasmus +, Creative Europe and COSME - and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) to support more projects in the field of CCIs;

Amendment 353 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Points out that much more can still be done to bring about the more effective interaction between the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs) and other European programmes which is outlined for the 2014-2020 programming period, with specific reference to ERASMUS+ and Creative Europe, in points 4.6 and 6.4 of Annex 1 to the 'Common Provisions Regulation' 1a, through the provision of better information on an EU-wide basis and by means of much more resolute implementation in the Member States and their regions;

Amendment 354 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)

18b. Calls on the Commission, to modify and/or interpret Commission Regulation (EU) 651/2014, for the part concerning State aid for culture and preservation of cultural heritage, in light of recital 72 of the Regulation and of Communication of the European Commission adopted on 19.05.2016, so that certain measures in the sector of cultural heritage (notably restoration and preservation) and, in some cases, of the cultural activities supported by EU funds and additional regional funds, do not fall within the notion of State aid;

Amendment 355 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

~~19. Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes, in particular Horizon 2020 and the ESIFs;~~deleted

Amendment 356 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes, in particular Horizon 2020 and the ESIFs and calls the same transversal approach to be envisaged in relation to all the EU policies impacting on the culture and creative sectors;

Amendment 357 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes, in particular Horizon 2020 and the ESIFs; and to focus on the specific innovation needs of the CCIs, through deeper analysis at horizontal and sectorial level;

Amendment 358 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Recognises the vital multiplier effect that EU funding can have for CCIs, particularly in specific regions; Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes, in particular Horizon 2020 and the ESIFs;

Amendment 359 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to ~~establish the cultural and creative industries~~respect art 167, §4 and establish the CCIs, as part of the CCS, as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes~~, in~~ and programmes, particularly in Horizon 2020 and the ESIFs;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas creative industries in Europe provide ~~more than 12 million full- time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA)~~relevant numbers of part- time, non-permanent and full-time jobs, creating significant value added, and they have the potential to further expand their contribution;

Amendment 360 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the Commission to establish the cultural and creative industries as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes, in particular Horizon 2020, EaSI and the ESIFs;

Amendment 361 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to broaden the range of financing instruments available to micro-enterprises and SMEs in the cultural and creative sector with new and innovative financing schemes such as microcredit, repayable contributions, crowdfunding, risk capital finance, seed funding and venture capital;

Amendment 362 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the Commission to work on mainstreaming EU support for cultural and creative industries, including funding, through the adoption of an overarching EU strategy and specific implementation plans for each;

Amendment 363 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that the Guarantee Facility within Creative Europe is one of the ways to address the pressing need for accessing loan financing for innovative and sustainable projects in the CCS; is concerned at the delay in implementing the Guarantee Facility; stresses the need to increase the budget of Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility to effectively support European cultural and creative expressions and diversify the beneficiaries of funding;

Amendment 364 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that the Guarantee Facility within Creative Europe is one of the ways to address the pressing need for accessing loan financing for innovative and sustainable projects in the CCS; stresses the need to ~~increase~~communicate more effectively on the budget of Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility to effectively support European cultural and creative expressions and diversify the beneficiaries of funding in order to enable European SMEs, primarily, to benefit from more funding; recalls, finally, the declared objective of supporting more than 10 000 SMEs;

Amendment 365 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that the Guarantee Facility within Creative Europe is one of the ways to address the pressing need for accessing loan financing for innovative and sustainable projects in the CCS; stresses the need to increase the budget of Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility to effectively support European cultural and creative expressions and diversify the beneficiaries of funding and underlines the importance of guaranteeing equal access to cultural operators from all Member States to this financial facility;

Amendment 366 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Notes that the Guarantee Facility within Creative Europe is one of the ways to address the pressing need for accessing loan financing for innovative and sustainable projects in the CCS; stresses the need to increase the budget of Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility to effectively support European cultural and creative expressions and diversify the beneficiaries of funding - especially through incentives in the form of public- private partnerships;

Amendment 367 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that the EFSI should help SMEs to overcome capital shortages and typically target projects with a higher risk profile than projects supported by EIB normal operations20 ; notes nevertheless that until May 2016 no funding had been granted for projects in the CCS nor for projects in the education or training sector, which mainly consist of SMEs with a higher degree of risk; __________________ 20deleted Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.

Amendment 368 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that the EFSI should help SMEs to overcome capital shortages and typically target projects with a higher risk profile than projects supported by EIB normal operations20 ; notes nevertheless that until May 2016 no funding had been granted for projects in the CCS nor for projects in the education or training sector, which mainly consist of SMEs ~~with~~considered by investors as presenting a higher degree of risk; __________________ 20 Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.

Amendment 369 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that the EFSI should help SMEs to overcome capital shortages and typically target projects with a higher risk profile than projects supported by EIB normal operations20 ; ~~notes nevertheles~~regrets that until ~~May~~August 2016 no funding had been granted for projects in the CCS nor for projects in the education or training sector, which mainly consist of SMEs with a higher degree of risk; __________________ 20 Regulation (EU) 2015/1017. Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas creative industries in Europe provide more than 12 million full- time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’'s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’'s total GVA) and in specific regions, creative industries represent a significantly higher percentage of GDP and employ a higher percentage of the local workforce;

Amendment 370 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Notes that the EFSI should help SMEs to overcome capital shortages and typically target projects with a higher risk profile than projects supported by EIB normal operations20; ~~notes nevertheless~~deplores the fact that until May 2016 no funding had been granted for projects in the ~~CCS nor for projects in the~~ education or training sector, which mainly consist of SMEs with a higher degree of risk; __________________ 20 Regulation (EU) 2015/1017.

Amendment 371 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

Amendment 372 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the EIB to address the ~~lack of EFSI~~very poor performance of EFSI in guaranteeing funding to CCIs by investigating possible interaction with Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility in order to provide fit-for-purpose loans for CCIs;

Amendment 373 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the EIB to address and rectify the lack of EFSI funding to CCIs by investigating possible interaction with Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility in order to provide fit-for-purpose loans for CCIs;

Amendment 374 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the EIB to address the lack of EFSI funding to CCIs by investigating possible interaction with Creative Europe and the Guarantee Facility in order to provide fit-for-purpose loans for CCIs; takes note, however, that on 30 June 2016, the European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) submitted an initiative worth EUR 121 million in order to provide guarantees for CCIs through financial institutions and that this facility is intended to encourage bank lending worth over EUR 600 million over the next six years;

Amendment 375 #

Patrizia TOIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Asks the Commission and the EIB to support pan-European public-private partnership or other financial facilities to addressing the growing need for availability of equity finance to support CCIs. In the context of this financial instruments, a CCI should be a self- sustainable enterprise whose business model serves to achieve a cultural impact and promote excellence. It should provide an entrepreneurial solution to cultural and educational issues based on a scalable approach, and should have a measurable and positive impact;

Amendment 376 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the investment environment and the conditions governing access to financing in the CCS and develop innovative financial instruments tailored to the needs and specificities of these sectors building on new and emerging financing sources such as microcredits and crowdfunding;

Amendment 377 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Highlights the need to better support the CCS companies in developing business skills to improve their ability to approach and convince external investors;

Amendment 378 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Considers it necessary to improve the role public investment banks play in the CCS by giving SMEs better access to credit and helping enterprises to expand their market and their export activities;

Amendment 379 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

~~23. Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCIs it is necessary to develop expertise in assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collaterals;~~deleted

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas cultural and creative industries in Europe provide more than 12 million full- time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA);

Amendment 380 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCI~~Notes that the Commission included a training scheme for financial intermediaries and bankers wit ~~is necessary to develop expertise in assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collateral~~h the new "Guarantee Facility" tool of Creative Europe , in order to develop sensitivity to the sector itself and expertise in assessing the special character and type of added value of CCS; considers it useful to assert the success of this scheme and if positive, then to extend it to various areas of policies;

Amendment 381 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCIs it is necessary to develop ~~expertise in assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collaterals~~a better understanding of the many different ways in which value is created in the field, thinking beyond "objects" like "content", "assets", and concentrating on new, more relevant dimensions like connectivity, access, participation;

Amendment 382 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCIs it is necessary to develop expertise in assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collaterals, so as to provide crucial information for these sectors, for example, business models and specific credit risk assessments;

Amendment 383 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCIs it is necessary to develop expertise in identifying and assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collaterals;

Amendment 384 #

Bogdan Brunon WENTA, Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ, Marc JOULAUD, Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Milan ZVER, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Andrea BOCSKOR, Stefano MAULLU

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Considers that in order to improve access to finance in the CCIs and all SMEs it is necessary to develop expertise in assessing the value of intangible assets which could be used as collaterals;

Amendment 385 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to take the required actions by introducing mixed methods of funding, such as public and private partnerships;

Amendment 386 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the promotion of ‘intellectual property assets protocols’ facilitating the valuation of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and invites the Commission and the Member States to adopt the necessary mechanisms in order to increase the bankability of IPRs and the recognition of their full value as assets;deleted

Amendment 387 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

Amendment 388 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls, to this end, for the promotion of ‘'intellectual property assets protocols’' facilitating the valuation of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and invites the Commission and the Member States to adopt the necessary mechanisms in order to increase the bankability of IPRs and the recognition of their full value as assets;

Amendment 389 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls on the Commission on bilateral negotiations with the EU Member States to define the terms of payments of the scientists and project managers, reflecting their actual contribution;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas c~~reative industrie~~ultural and creative sectors in Europe provide more than 12 million full- time jobs, which amounts to 7.5 % of the EU’s work force, creating approximately EUR 509 billion in value added to GDP (5.3 % of the EU’s total GVA);

Amendment 390 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Calls on the Commission to develop a methodology for funding the project managers on the purchase of equipment needed for the scientific research project activity;

Amendment 391 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the ~~Council and the Commiss~~Member States of the European Union.

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regard to the study of the European Commission on "the impact of culture on creativity", June 2009,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas according to a study by the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, intellectual property rights (IPR)- intensive industries generate over a quarter of employment and over a third of the economic activity in the EU;

Amendment 41 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas almost 39% of EU GDP is generated by IPR-intensive industries, with trademark-intensive industries generating 34% of the total, design- intensive industries 13%, patent-intensive industries 14%, and copyright-intensive industries 4.2%;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

~~F. whereas CCIs in the EU employ 2.5 times more people than automotive manufacturers and five times more than the chemical industry;~~deleted

Amendment 43 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

~~F. whereas CCIs in the EU employ 2.5 times more people than automotive manufacturers and five times more than the chemical industry;~~deleted

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas CCIs in the EU employ 2.5 times more people than automotive manufacturers and five times more than the chemical industry, whereas those jobs are part of the development of a knowledge economy and pave the way for social and environmental renewal, whereas there is however a need to tackle the issue of the sustainability of jobs in the creative industry as well as in the audiovisual sector, music, art and entertainment;

Amendment 45 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas CCIs play an important role in creating vibrant and distinctive regions, which can help to improve the quality of life of citizens and be an important inward investment factor;

Amendment 46 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas authors and performers are at the origin and the very source of CCIs;

Amendment 47 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it is connected to specific cultural and historical competences; ~~whereas CCIs contribute significantly and more than any other sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post-2008 economic crisis;~~

Amendment 48 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it is connected to specific cultural and historical competences; whereas CCIs contribute significantly ~~and more than any other sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post- 2008 economic crisis~~, also to youth employment, and proved to be most resilient in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, whereas account must nevertheless be taken of the report published in 2010 by Tera Consultants, with the backing of the Avignon Forum, which showed that between 2008 and 2011 the creative industries lost more than 185 000 jobs and around EUR 10 billion, principally as a result of digital piracy, and whereas action needs to be taken to combat such piracy, which is undermining our creative industry;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)

- having regard to the Council conclusions on gender equality of 16 June 2016,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~employment in~~policies for the cultural ~~sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it i~~and creative sector need to actively resist employment offshoring, to which the sector is not immune; its connectedion to specific cultural and historical competences can indeed provide an opportunity to invert the self-destructive, short-sighted offshoring trend followed by other industries; whereas CCIs contribute significantly and more than any other sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post- 2008 economic crisis;

Amendment 51 #

Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Emma McCLARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas ~~employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored~~CCIs rely on keeping a strong EU location in terms of employment, based on it is c~~onnected to~~raftsmanship, and specific cultural and historical competences; whereas CCIs contribute significantly ~~and more than any other sector~~ to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post-2008 economic crisis;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it is connected to specific cultural, often regional and historical competences; whereas CCIs contribute significantly and more than any other sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post- 2008 economic crisis;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas employment in the cultural sector is unlikely to be offshored, as it is connected to specific identity, cultural and historical competences; whereas CCIs contribute significantly and more than any other sector to youth employment and have proved to be most resilient during the post- 2008 economic crisis;

Amendment 54 #

Jude KIRTON-DARLING, Theresa GRIFFIN, Mary HONEYBALL, Julie WARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 55 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 56 #

Luigi MORGANO, Christian EHLER, José BLANCO LÓPEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas CCIs have attractive qualities from a local development perspective: make use of a range of skills at a series of different levels, tend to be socially responsible and inclusive and generate positive externalities in the areas where they are located; whereas their openness and interaction with other activities give rise to agglomeration and cluster effects and they tend to generate a high proportion of total value added locally;

Amendment 57 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas flexibility and mobility are indissociable in the context of professional artistic activity, and it is therefore important that the unpredictable and sometimes precarious nature of the artistic profession is offset by a guarantee of genuine social protection;

Amendment 58 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the CCIs comprise a majority of small and micro-companies and whereas the cultural and creative sector (CCS) companies with ~~less~~fewer than 9nine employees account for more than 90 % of the workforce of those sectors, and whereas there is a particular need to give priority support to these small and medium-sized companies in the policies pursued, as they guarantee lasting, stable jobs in the EU;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the CCIs comprise a majority of small and micro-companies ~~and whereas the cultural and creative sector (CCS) companies with less t~~which main strength shall remain the short value chain ~~9 employees account for more than 90 % of the workforce~~between artists and creators and their final output and production;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- having regard to the Working Group of EU Member States Experts report of November 2015 entitled 'Towards more efficient financial ecosystems: innovative instruments to facilitate access to finance for the cultural and creative sectors',

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the CCIs comprise a majority of small and micro-companies and whereas the cultural and creative sector (CCS) companies with less than 9 employees account for more than 90 % of the workforce; whereas such size distribution makes them particularly suited for developing a fertile, close interaction with the Regions where they are located, and to open opportunities for highly rewarding and learning-oriented part-time and non permanent jobs;

Amendment 61 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas it is erroneously argued that there is a higher degree of risk involved in investing in CCIs compared with other types of business, and whereas that argument is based, inter alia, on the fact that CCIs are IPR-intensive and that there are difficulties involved in using intangible goods as guarantees for financing;

Amendment 62 #

Dietmar KÖSTER, Mary HONEYBALL, Giorgos GRAMMATIKAKIS, Mady DELVAUX

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas culture-based initiatives and industries have a multiple role to play in local and regional development, traditionally playing a role in raising the attractiveness of regions, ensuring the economic and social development of rural and isolated areas and allowing an integrated sustainable urban regeneration;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas it is increasingly rare for cultural and creative artists to be in permanent employment; whereas they are, to an increasing extent, self-employed, alternating between self-employed and employed activity or engaged in part-time or irregular activity;

Amendment 64 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas CCIs play a key role in reindustrialising Europe, are a driver for growth and are in a strategic position to trigger innovative spill-overs in other industrial sectors, such as tourism, retail, and digital technologies;deleted

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas CCIs play a key role in reindustrialising Europe, are a driver for growth and are in a strategic position to trigger innovative s~~pill-over~~hifts in other industrial sectors, such as tourism, education, retail, and digital technologies, and whereas there is however a need to encourage interaction and exchange between those various sectors, and develop territories and creative territorial marketing so as to ensure that the creative industry can also be a driver for development in local communities;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas CCIs play a key role in reindustrialising Europe, are a driver for ~~growth~~non-consumist, environment-respecting development and are in a strategic position to trigger innovative spill-overs in other industrial and service sectors, such as tourism, retail, and digital technologies;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~CCI~~European cultural and creative productions play a key role in reindustrialising Europe, CCIs are a driver for growth and are in a strategic position to trigger innovative ~~spill-overs~~economic impact in other industrial sectors, such as tourism, retail, and digital technologies;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~CCI~~the new technology and internet industries play a key role in reindustrialising Europe, are a driver for growth and are in a strategic position to trigger innovative spill-overs in other industrial sectors, such as tourism, retail, and ~~digital technologies~~the creative industry;

Amendment 7 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Morten PETERSEN, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Lieve WIERINCK, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Citation 34 a (new)

- having regard to its resolution of 19 January 2016 'Towards a Digital Single Market'8a , __________________ 8a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2016)0009

Amendment 70 #

Angelika MLINAR, Kaja KALLAS, Lieve WIERINCK, Morten PETERSEN, Pavel TELIČKA, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas CCIs are a driving force for innovation and development of ICT in Europe; whereas the digital transformation of the industry offers new possibilities for the development of new business models and market expansion, but also poses challenges to the traditional sectors of the CCIs;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas creative industries are amongst the most entrepreneurial sectors, developing transferable skills such as creative thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and resourcefulness;

Amendment 72 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas CCIs and CCI creative labs have the potential to generate positive impact in social inclusion, education, urban regeneration;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas industrial heritage tourism, as well as industrial museums, can offer new cultural and economic perspectives, above all to post-industrial regions, and keep the traditional European know-how alive;

Amendment 74 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas among the different sources of EU funding, only some like" Creative Europe" and the "European Fund for Strategic Investment" mention CCIs as a specific priority, together with other NGOs and small associations or cultural institutions, which is the reality of the cultural field at large;

Amendment 75 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas among the different sources of EU funding, only Creative Europe and the European Fund for Strategic Investment mention CCIs as a specific priority; whereas, furthermore, those funds are still struggling to prove their effectiveness when it comes to the provision of funding for SMEs in the creative and cultural industries, as within the ‘culture’ strand of the Creative Europe programme, only 20% of projects could ultimately be funded between 2014 and 2015, with only 11% of those projects proving successful;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas among the different sources of EU funding, only Creative Europe and the European Fund for Strategic Investment mention CCIs as a specific priority while they have a crucial role in boosting social, economic and territorial cohesion;

Amendment 77 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas with the entry into force of Commission Regulation (EU) 651/2014 some measures in the sector of cultural heritage (notably restoration and preservation) and, in some cases, of the cultural activities supported by EU funds and additional regional funds, could be considered as State aid, despite their local relevance and despite the non-economic nature and the non-commercial organisation of the activities and of the cultural institution, resulting in considerable hurdles for the relevant regional authorities and in delays in implementing such measures;

Amendment 78 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas in today's converging and globalised market, innovative and research-driven European CCIs are vital for ensuring linguistic and cultural diversity, pluralism and the offer of innovative and high-quality services;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative and cultural content is being ~~consum~~accessed, shared and interconnected today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the cultural and creative sector has ~~not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption~~realized that traditional business models, often based on oligopolistic positions, are not able anymore to translate in additional revenues this increase in consumption; whereas such obsolescence indicates that enormous value-creation opportunities can be seized by the creative and cultural system, if it dares to develop innovative models, combining business excellence with widespread citizens participation, matching the needs of modern society and the potential of fast-evolving technology;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Α

Α. whereas in its communication ‘Promoting cultural and creative sectors for growth and jobs in the EU’17, the Commission ~~recognises~~should give greater importance to the key role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs)18 for the social and economic development of the EU; __________________ 17 18COM(2012)537 final. COM(2012)537 final. 18 Referred to in the Commission Referred to in the Commission communication as: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, performing and visual arts, publishing and radio.

Amendment 80 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, ~~in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the cultural and creative sector has not seen a compara~~and that new technologies are opening up new sources of income for creators by making it possible into creaste ~~in revenues from this increase in consumption~~new business models;

Amendment 81 #

Kaja KALLAS, Angelika MLINAR, Fredrick FEDERLEY, Carolina PUNSET

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. ~~whereas despite the fact~~considering that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, ~~the cultural and creative sector has not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption~~facilitating the emergence of attractive legal offers with a broad catalogue and cross-border availability should be a priority;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, and that distribution and production costs have fallen with technology developments, the lack of transparency in the value chain, outdated legislation and the difficulties of traditional sectors to adapt to digital transformation have led to the cultural and creative sector ~~has~~ not seening a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption;

Amendment 83 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the cultural and creative sector has not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption, owing in particular to competition from a number of major multinationals in the industry, which all too often benefit from unfair taxation arrangements giving them an advantage over very small enterprises and SMEs in the industry;

Amendment 84 #

Angel DZHAMBAZKI, Emma McCLARKIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the cultural and creative sector has not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption; whereas the Commission is urged to take steps to put a stop to the transfer of value to ensure that authors, creators, performers and right holders receive fair remuneration for their works, and whereas this will result in more content for the public and a strong cultural and creative industry, as well as representing a guarantee to safeguard European cultural and linguistic diversity;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas despite the fact that more creative content is being consumed today than ever before, in particular on services such as user-uploaded content platforms and content aggregation services, the cultural and creative sector has not seen a comparable increase in revenues from this increase in consumption, largely due to the issues surrounding legal clarity and differentiation of active and passive content promotion, which is often victim to illegal online activities, subsequently negatively affecting CCI's;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas as a result of digital and communication technology, access barriers to many types of cultural production and distribution have sharply fallen both in terms of cost and of technical difficulty, resulting de facto in a much more democratic and participative cultural system, where the intervention of an industrial contributor providing specific know-how and relevant capital becomes only necessary for some highly specific typologies of cultural production;

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas CCIs are undergoing considerable modifications as a result of increased digital technologies witnessing changes in the conditions of artistic production and influencing intellectual property law;

Amendment 89 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas CCIs remain undervalued and unrecognised, especially in terms of their ability to access start-up capital and financing;

Amendment 9 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas in its communication ‘Promoting cultural and creative sectors for growth and jobs in the EU’1, the Commission recognises the key role of cultural and creative industries (CCIs)2 for the social and economic development of the EU, whereas those industries are generating an increasing number of jobs (that are difficult or impossible to relocate), and whereas they are economically robust and are catalysts for innovation; __________________ 1 COM(2012)537 final. 2 Referred to in the Commission communication as: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, video games and multimedia), cultural heritage, design (including fashion design), festivals, music, performing and visual arts, publishing and radio.

Amendment 90 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the latest study commissioned by the Commission19 takes into account in its definition of CCIs also the creativity-driven high-end industries; whereas fashion and high-end industries rely on a strong cultural and creative input, contribute to preserve the European centuries-old savoir faire and draw on a cultural heritage and traditions that cannot be replicated by others; __________________ 19Study reference to be completed once published. Please note that all figures mentioned in this report are based on this study.deleted

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the latest study commissioned by the Commission2 takes into account in its definition of CCIs also the creativity-driven high-end industries; whereas fashion and high-end industries rely on a strong cultural and creative input, contribute to preserve the ~~European~~ centuries-old savoir faire of the peoples of Europe and draw on a cultural heritage and traditions that cannot be replicated by others; __________________ 2 Study reference to be completed once published. Please note that all figures mentioned in this report are based on this study.

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the latest study commissioned by the Commission19 takes into account in its definition of CCIs also the creativity-driven high-end industries; whereas fashion and high-end industries rely on a strong cultural and creative input, contribute to preserve the ~~European~~ centuries-old savoir faire of some regions of the world and draw on atheir cultural heritage and traditions ~~that cannot be replicated by others~~; whereas Europe is undoubtedly well placed to contribute significantly to such world-wide increased exchanges based on culture and creativity; __________________ 19 Study reference to be completed once published. Please note that all figures mentioned in this report are based on this study.

Amendment 93 #

Dominique BILDE, Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER, Nicolas BAY

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas the latest study commissioned by the Commission19 takes into account in its definition of CCIs also the creativity-driven high-end industries; whereas fashion and high-end industries rely on a strong cultural and creative input, contribute to preserve the European centuries-old savoir faire and draw on a cultural heritage and traditions that cannot be replicated by others; whereas cooperation should be strengthened in order to take account changes in employment and the need for specific skills; __________________ 19 Study reference to be completed once published. Please note that all figures mentioned in this report are based on this study.

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas CCI national estimates are rarely comparable as Member States are still using different definitions of the CCI; whereas there is a need to promote an exchange of best practices and freely encourage the Member States to enhance their cooperation, particularly as regards combating counterfeit and pirated products and services;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas CCI national estimates are ~~rarely~~less comparable than the statistics of other industrial sectors, as Member States are still using different definitions of the CCI, linked to their own national understanding and perspectives;

Amendment 96 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas CCI national estimates are rarely comparable ~~as Member States are still using different definitions of the CCI~~, in view of the major economic disparities still existing between the Member States, while countries such as Greece have been hit particularly hard in sectors such as culture, innovation and research;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas CCI national estimates are rarely comparable as Member States are still using different definitions of the CCI; notes that such definitions also include broad categories of CCIs such as software, advertising and marketing, which are highly successful both in economic terms and as examples of European creativity and entrepreneurship;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

~~N. whereas in 2013 international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods amounted to up to 2.5 % of world trade and up to 5 % of imports in the EU, which represents EUR 85 billion;~~deleted

Amendment 99 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~in 2013~~the worrying size of international tradeffic in counterfeit and pirated goods ~~amounted to up to 2.5 % of world trade and up to 5 % of imports in the EU, which represents EUR 85 billion;~~ is still another indicator of the extreme vulnerability of struggling business models, and indicates the pressing need to develop innovative ways of protecting value-creation, especially through increased controls at the external borders of the EU, specific policies addressed to third countries which adopt different IPR approaches, and other measures which reward the long-term vision of those creative and cultural industries which have gallantly resisted delocalisation, nurturing stable relationships with their suppliers, and ensuring through the supply chain a strict respect of labour, environment and tax law;

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2016/09/13 JURI 50 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated first and foremost by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale, and by substantial changes to the applicable rules; stresses in this regard the importance of assessing the effects of digital developments on the cultural and creative industries, as those effects ultimately have a significant impact on investment, jobs, economic growth and innovation, to which the cultural and creative industries make a substantial contribution;

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Points out that CCIs guarantee not only cultural diversity, but also media pluralism and the economic vitality of the European Union;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Notes that CCIs are of strategic importance for economic development and quality job creation in the EU;

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the digital environment offers new opportunities for creators to produce and distribute their works to a wider public at a lower cost, independently of physical and geographical constraints; points out at the same time that the smooth functioning of the internal market gives the CCIs the chance to broaden their target public and develop their economic activities, thereby enabling them, inter alia, to better cope with international competition; advocates the need in this regard to promote and develop strategic investments so that the CCIs can boost cultural diversity, social and territorial cohesion and employment;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the digital environment offers new opportunities for creators to produce and distribute their works to a wider public at a lower cost, independently of physical and geographical constraints; therefore considers it highly important, with a view to expanding the supply of online legal content, to define new means of circulating works that move beyond the current territorial restrictions;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the digital environment ~~offers~~may present new opportunities for creators to produce and distribute their works to a wider public at a lower cost, independently of physical and geographical constraints; notes however, that an increasingly connected and digitised forum may cause an increased financial strain on creators with limited resources, when being placed in a larger competitive sphere;

Amendment 15 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Considers that the~~Stresses the need to define legal rights of professionals in the cultural and creative industries in order to protect their work against piracy, taking into consideration that the growing digital environment offers new opportunities for creators to produce and distribute their works to a wider public at a lower cost, independently of physical and geographical constraints;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the digital environment offers new opportunities for the creat~~ors to produce and distribute their works~~ion and production of cultural and creative works, and for their distribution, exploitation and accessibility to a wider public ~~at a lower cost~~, independently of physical and geographical constraints and at times at a lower cost;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Amendment 18 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Considers that the digital environment may offers new opportunities for creators to produce and distribute their works to a wider public at a lower cost, independently of physical and geographical constraints;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that digital technology has also brought about opportunities for the creation of different types of artistic work or practices and for which that digital technology is an essential part of the creative process;

Amendment 2 #

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that cultural and 1. creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale; stresses that culture should not be considered by the EU only from an internal market - competition, or trade policy point of view; calls in this respect on the Commission to identify specific indicators in order to monitor and analyse the cultural and societal impact of its policies and societal impact of its policies and regulatory proposals to the CCIs in order to improve official statistics;

Amendment 20 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that in defining 'cultural and creative industries' consideration is to be made of the continuous changes and opportunities that digital technology may continue to provide and that any such definition refers to works, including goods and services, which are a product of artistic, cultural or creative processes and which are susceptible to protection as intellectual property rights without restricting the processes through which such works are created or produced;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs predominantly consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium sized enterprises and freelancers, with limited bargaining power vis-à-vis ~~the new digital outlets~~big industrial groups, and especially vis-à-vis the new digital outlets; advocates in this respect the need to develop a balanced legal framework which reflects the specific characteristics of the sector and comprises the appropriate legal solutions for remedying this problem;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs predominantly consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium –sized enterprises and freelancers, with limited bargaining power vis-à-vis the new digital outlets, as is particularly the case with artists and creators from outside mainstream cultural and linguistic areas;

Amendment 23 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs ~~predominantly~~, besides dominant established players, consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium sized enterprises and freelancers, with limited bargaining power vis-à-vis the new digital outlets as well as traditionally established players;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs predominantly consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium sized enterprises and freelancers, with limited access to infrastructures, resources and funding and with limited bargaining power vis-à- vis ~~the~~ onlinew digital outlets;

Amendment 25 #

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs predominantly consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium sized enterprises, which are often excluded from support programs aimed at SMEs, and freelancers, with limited bargaining power vis-à-vis the new digital outlets;

Amendment 26 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Recalls in this context that CCIs predominantly consist of a myriad of micro-, small and medium sized enterprises and freelancers, with limited bargaining power vis-à-vis the new digital outlets and illegal non-passive intermediary activities;

Amendment 27 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers consequently that protection of right holders within the copyright and intellectual property legislative frameworks is necessary in a manner that recognises, values and stimulates innovation, creativity, investment and production of content;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses therefore that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and that the economic value of content ~~is being displaced towards the end~~occurs at various points of the value chain thereby ~~upsetting~~making more complex the system through which the creative community traditionally draws value from content, while facing losses ~~resulting also from piracy~~that notably result from changes in the consumption of media by users, challenging the existing business models and, in some instances, from copyright infringement;

Amendment 3 #

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale, thus calling for a legal definition for cultural and creative industries across Europe that takes into consideration also the new cultural and creative trends existing in today's society;

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses therefore that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and that the economic value of content is being displaced towards the end of the value chain thereby upsetting the system through which the creative community draws value from content, while facing losses resulting also from piracy and further illicit activities which can cause among others, safety and health concerns, and need to be tackled;

Amendment 31 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses th~~erefore that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and that~~at continuous digital innovation challenges the cultural and creative industries to rethink and reshape their business models and that in most current business models the economic value of content is being displaced towards the end of the value chain thereby upsetting the system through which the creative community draws value from content, while facing losses resulting also from piracy;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses therefore that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and that the economic value of content is being displaced towards the end of the value chain thereby upsetting the system through which the creative community draws value from content, while facing losses resulting also from piracy and from an as-yet inequitable remuneration of artists and authors;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Stresses therefore~~Notes, that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and that the economic value of content ~~is being displaced towards the end of the value chain thereby upsetting the system through which the creative community draws value from content, while facing losses resulting also from piracy~~needs to be redefined in order to establish a modern approach when it comes to assessing effects of increased digitization;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses therefore that business models are challenged by continuous digital innovation and expresses its concern at the fact that the economic value of content is being displaced towards the end of the value chain thereby upsetting the system through which the creative community draws value from content, while facing losses resulting also from piracy;

Amendment 35 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the importance of the new digital environment for the development of the cultural and creative industries in creating more visibility for creators and enabling them to be in a permanent contact with the audience and consumers; therefore the establishment of any legal framework defining the digitalisation of cultural and creative industries should be operated after a broad consultation of all the actors involved in the value chain;

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Considers that digital platforms are a means of providing wider access to cultural and creative works and that consideration is to be made of how this process can function with more legal certainty and respect for right holders;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to address the issue of the value transfer in connection with the ongoing copyright debate;

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses the importance of apprenticeships in the cultural and creative industries and the need to define a European legal framework for the good development of apprenticeships across EU member states;

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to develop a European cultural strategy in the digital era in line with all EU policies, including tax policy;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale; hence considers it important for the new regulatory framework on copyright to be adaptable to technological developments and to future digital platforms;

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, for improving fair remuneration of authors and creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic activity. Considers in this regard that attempts to counteract infringement of copyright should receive public backing and calls on the Commission to identify effective mechanisms for raising public awareness in this field.

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content ~~and~~in proportion with the various rights at stake, while facilitating the emergence of attractive legal offers with a broad catalogue and cross-border availability; also calls on the Commission to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, for improving fair remuneration of creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain ~~in the digital environment~~, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic activity;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to encourage enhanced cooperation between Member States authorities and industry in order to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, for improving fair remuneration of creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic activity;

Amendment 43 #

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright –related contracts and growth in the supply of the legal content available, for improving fair remuneration of creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic and research activity.;

Amendment 44 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, for improving fair remuneration of creators and solutions that would suit right holders and consumers alike, thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic activity;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, finally to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, for improving fair remuneration of creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, and safeguarding national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulating economic activity.

Amendment 46 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Amendment 47 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission, to effectively address the circulation of illegal digital content and to examine the different options, focusing on copyright related contracts, ~~for~~to improv~~ing~~e fair remuneration of creators thereby rewarding creativity and innovation while promoting transparency in the copyright value chain in the digital environment, ~~and~~to safeguard~~ing~~ national cultural and linguistic specificities and stimulat~~ing~~e economic activity;

Amendment 48 #

Therese COMODINI CACHIA, Jean-Marie CAVADA, Emil RADEV

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recalls the outcome of the Public Consultation launched by the Commission on a regulatory environment for platforms and online intermediaries; highlights that participants recognise the benefits of online platforms in making creative content more accessible and communication easier, while at the same time participants also questioned the lack of transparency and legal certainty in this process vis-à-vis compliance with copyright;

Amendment 49 #

Jiří MAŠTÁLKA, Kostas CHRYSOGONOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the link between the cultural sector, training and CCIs as well as to maximise the potential of SMEs in cultural and creative sectors, and to make culture an element of Europe´s cooperation and development policy;

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that cultural and creative industries (CCIs), as many other sectors, operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale;

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Considers that adequate and effective protection of copyright and related rights is essential to ensure that creators are fairly remunerated;

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Underlin~~Stresses that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate in a constantly evolving environment dominated by the development and use of digital Information Communication Technology on a global scale;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Reiterates the need for the Commission to develop a cohesive and comprehensive long-term industrial strategy for the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) that will turn challenges like digitalisation and the review of copyright rules into new growth and job opportunities by creating a balanced legal framework; stresses the importance of the industrial strategy framework including the possibility of having a segment dedicated to culture and digital creativity; considers in this respect that the EU should include the development, promotion and protection of the cultural and creative industries in its strategic goals and overall political priorities;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Reiterates that cultural and creative industries are based on and promote individual creativity, cultural value, skills and talent with the potential to create wealth and jobs through generating value from intellectual property;

Amendment 9 #