Activities of Martina MICHELS related to 2021/2017(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade: an Action Plan to Support Recovery and Transformation
Amendments (26)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regards to the Directive (EU) 2018/1808 amending Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordination of certain provisions laid by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audio-visual media services (Audiovisual Media Service Directive),
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 b (new)
Citation 15 b (new)
— having regard to the Protocole on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam Protocol, 10/11/1997),
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
— having regard the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Single Market for Digital Services (Digital Service Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (COM/2020/825 final),
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 b (new)
Citation 20 b (new)
— having regard to the Proposal for the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on contestable and fair market in the digital sector (Digital Market Act) (COM/2020/842 final),
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas quality, well-financed and independent news media and professional journalism are an essential pillar of democracy and rule of law; whereas every effort must be made to increase media pluralism3 ; freedom and media pluralism3; whereas the transparency of media funding is an essential element in reducing the confidence's crisis of European citizens; whereas media shouldn't be subject to any pressure from political and economic power; whereas the media's concentration in hegemonic groups is not adequate for the information's diversity; _________________ 3 No EU country registers a low level of risk in the market plurality area according to ‘Monitoring Media Pluralism in the Digital Era’, p. 50:https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/ 1814/67828/MPM2020- PolicyReport.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed =y
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the audio and audiovisual sector plays a vital part in fostering the resilience of our democratic societies; whereas the heterogeneity of the sector is also one of its strengths, helping to promote and strengthen Europe’s cultural, linguistic, including regional or minority languages, social and political diversity;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the Commission must promote both transformation of new business models of audio and audiovisual media using own online profiles to create a broader investigative and trustworthy media landscape and non profit media freedom inititaives in a substainable and intensive manner;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the fallout of the economic downturn, and strongly reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to increase support available for the news media and audiovisual sectors, and the cultural and creative sectors more broadly; considers that allocations for the media sector should be increased across various multiannual financial framework (MFF) programmes;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Highlights the importance of the dual system of public and commercial media in Europe; calls on Member States to provide sustainable funding to public service media in order to secure the diverse European media landscape;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the launch of the ‘NEWS’ initiative for the news media sector, including the European News Media Forum; reiterates emphatically its repeated calls for the creation of a permanent European news media fund; including funding of press publishers, the dual system of pubic and commercial media and independent, local and cooperative and exile media producers;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges that some parts of the audio and audiovisual ecosystem are not covered by current support measures; invites the Commission to continue exploring tailored support schemes; urges particular attention be paid in all support actions to Member States with low audio and audiovisual production capacity; invites to support especially the independet and investigative media whuch suffer from the crisis and the poltical will to silence them;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Invites the Commission to conduct a study, develop guidelines and share among Member States the best practices in public financing mechanisms; while recalling the Member States' responsibility in regards to culture, education, youth and media policy and more particularly funding mechanisms in these fields;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls that ecomomic based media concentration, pressure on public media sector and the pressure of infotainment spin with shortening information timeslots and conditioning kind presentation and debates are detrimental to the quality and impartiality of information and democratic exchange;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with concern that global online platforms have a vast disruptive impact on the media sector, as they dominate the data and advertising market, and have radically changed audience consumption patterns; underlines that current legislation does not regulate pivotal issues in the information ecosystem such as access to data, digital advertising, algorithmic transparency, platform accountability, must-show and other questions; considers that timely adoption of legislation to help address these shortcomings is a matter of urgency; given that alerts on the will of the platforms not to refer the information coming from other media sources has to be answered with commen code of conduct on more public transparency to ensure the discoverability of information and other content; is also concerned about the platforms' business practises to remove or interfere with lawful content proboded under a media service provider's editprial responsibilty and that is sibject to specific standards and oversights;
Amendment 149 #
9 a. Highlights the importance of the Digital Service Act and the Digital Markets Act for European media and audiovisual sectors since citizens and in particular minors increasingly access news und diverse content via thord-party platforms; such as social networks and news aggregators; stresses the need to further improve the proposed Acts in order to mitigate the issues mentioned above;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Notes that media are increasingly dependent on global platforms and interfaces, some of which are vertically integrated competitors, to deliver their services to European audiences; call upon Member States to come up with prominence regimes to ensure that media content of general interest is easy to discover and find on third-party platforms and calls upon the Commission to develop a solid European approach to support this overall goal;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recognises the additional challenges for news media operating in smaller markets, including local, regional and niche media, which have limited revenues, and are not viable using current commercial business models, and which cannot embrace new ones that media operating in larger markets can; believes, therefore, that public funding mechanisms based on the arm’s length principle are increasingly necessary; calls on Member States to ensure stable, transparent and adequate funding for public service media on a multiannual basis in order to guarantee their independence from governmental, political and market pressures and enable them to provide a broad range of pluralistic information and diverse content;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that it is essential to guarantee financial sustainability of public service media, and to ensure and maintain the independence of private and public service media from political and economic interference, including from external actors and shareholders; acknowledges the specific situation of the Member States which are exposed to geopolitical risks arising from third country interference in their information space, including through media financing; believes that the best viable antidote is a more robust media landscape with steady revenue streams; considers increased transparency to be important, and therefore welcomes the Media Ownership Monitor initiative;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Encourages the Commission for an actve regulation of the big platforms with the new proposed Acts to allow a fair permanent discussion between the media that produce editorial contents and the platforms that used them by references in their searching, communicating and clouding services for individual, institutional and business users;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Urges the Commission to take into account the specificities of the different types of media and definite a broad approach on media producers, including press publishers and focused on independent, cooperative nd exile media producers and public audio and audiovisual media;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need for transformation in the news media sector, including through the digitalisation of newsrooms, the uptake of artificial intelligence (AI), changes and improvements to content creation and presentation, as well as better distribution and subscription models, including micro- payments; notes that the above require additional investment and skills that news media sector players often lack, especially those with small market share; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide tailored support for the digital transformation of the sector;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to stabilize media freedom projects in order to prevent practices in the Member States that prevent journalists from reporting and researching, and to protect whistleblowers in a socially and legally sustainable manner;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines the added value of including the media sector in media and information literacy initiatives; which must be central to the educational policies of Member States and the European Union;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers that in order to help spur competition, the EU also needs to promote the creation and growth of digital media start-ups through easier access to finance and a supportive framework that enables scalability;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Is of the view that targeted co- production, translation and co-distribution, subtitling and dubbing could contribute to increasing the availability of diverse European audiovisual content; notes with interest several innovative projects carried out by European public service media organisations in that regard, such as the ARTE European collection, the News Recommendation Box and ENTR;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Highlights that film literacy is particularly important for making younger audiences aware of European cultural diversity and history; considers it necessary to develop a film literacy toolkit; recalls the specificities of the European cinematographic production and the cultural exception in this domain to preserve the quality production of the European continent;