1 Amendments of Nils TORVALDS related to 2012/2300(INI)
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to ensure in the Audiovisual Media Services Directive that Member States are given the opportunity to grant those content providers an appropriately privileged status with regard to findability on hybrid platforms (including portals, home pages and EPGs) to which the Member States assign a public broadcasting remit or which help to promote objectives in the public interest, particularly to ensure media pluralism and cultural diversity including an increased possibility for cultural and linguistic minorities to access programmes in all Member States, or which lastingly and demonstrably undertake to carry out duties in the public interest which maintain the quality and independence of reporting and promote diversity of opinion, in which connection service providers with the highest aspirations to comply with such obligations should also be assigned the most prominent position on platforms;