18 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2014/2148(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the third Commission report of 7 December 2012 entitled 'On the challenges for European film heritage from the analogue and the digital era' (SWD (2012) 431 final) concerning the implementation of the recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2005 'on Film Heritage and the Competitiveness of Related Industrial Activities' (2005/865/EC);
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas Article 14 of Regulation No 1295/2013 establishing the Creative Europe programme states that the Commission shall establish a 'Guarantee Facility targeting the cultural and creative sectors' with the aim of facilitating access to finance for SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors and enabling participating financial intermediaries to assess more effectively the risks associated with projects for which SMEs are seeking loans and finance;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas in October 2013, the Commission published the results of a 'Survey on access to finance for cultural and creative sectors', revealing the enormous difficulties in obtaining access to credit and an estimated financial shortfall of between EUR 8 billion and EUR 13.3 billion for cultural and creative enterprises, including those in the audiovisual sector;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. whereas, from its third report of 7 December 2012 'on the challenges for European film heritage from the analogue and the digital era', the Commission had already been pointing out that only 1.5% of the European film heritage was digitised; whereas this percentage to date remains the same, despite reiterated concerns that much of it may be lost for ever to future generations, as evidenced, for example, by the fact that only 10% of silent films have been preserved;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to update the regulatory framework provisions relating to Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, so as to bring them more closely into line with technological progress over the last decade, in particular digitisation, and its current impact on activities relating to creation, production and use of content;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the importance of targeted marketing across the Union that takes into accountfor balanced enhancement of the cultural specificities of European audiences with a view to conserving European linguistic and cultural diversity and ensuring better and more efficient promotion of European films;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges accordingly greater availability of subtitled films in order to boost the cross- border circulation of European films, increase awareness of Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity amongst viewers, and improve mutual understanding;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the social importance of cinemas in small local communities and calls on the Commission and Member States to take appropriate measures to safeguard them;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to take this into accountpresent a timetable for the revision of Directive on audiovisual media services under the 2015 Commission Work Programme and, when proposing the review ofamendments to the current legal framework in order to ensureprovisions, ensure uniform implementation and a level playing field ofor all providers in the European audiovisual market, with fair and equal conditions for all providers; sector;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that in order to improve the circulation of European films on both European and international markets, public funding for production and distribution needs to be better balanced with a view to increasing support for development, promotion and international distributionone of the main causes of the structural weakness of the European film industry is the large imbalance regarding public funding, most of which currently goes to the production of films and relatively little to the distribution, promotion and marketing thereof;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Considers it necessary to increase funding in real terms for film distribution, promotion and marketing without this being at the expense of funding for production;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Considers it necessary to ensure that public funding for the film industry at regional, inter-regional, national and European level is generally better coordinated and more consistent so as to maximise its efficiency;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Considers content digitisation to be essential for the conservation and protection of the European film heritage, which is in danger of being lost forever, requiring increased funding for the improvement of archive film scanning technologies, film conservation techniques, structural modernisation and compliance by the film industry with international digital preservation standards;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Regrets that the Guarantee Facility under the Creative Europe programme for cultural and creative activities will be operational only from 2016, although it was intended, under Regulation (EU) No 1295/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013, to provide an immediate response to serious difficulties faced by undertakings in the cultural and creative sector, including the audiovisual sector, in obtaining access to finance;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Considers Guarantee Facility funding currently earmarked for the cultural and creative sectors under the Creative Europe programme to be totally inadequate and calls for a substantial increase in its budget without this being at the expense of funding for the programme as a whole or any of the other educational and cultural programmes;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Notes the key role of local and regional authorities in the large-scale promotion and enhancement of the film industry at national level, in stimulating artistic innovation, development and effective implementation of multi-level governance strategies1a and in providing adequate infrastructures; considers that their full involvement in the activities of the European Cinema Forum is therefore essential;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Member States to redouble their efforts to improve media literacy, and in particular film literacy, in school curricula, and to develop initiatives at national, regional or local level in formal and informal education and trainimong the young and not-so-young;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Member States to increase significantly film literacy and individual entrepreneurship by promoting further ad hoc and informal education and training initiatives at national, regional and local level for younger people in particular;