1 Amendments of Edina TÓTH related to 2023/2019(INI)
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that the Portability Regulation12 delivered substantial benefits to consumers who expect to receive continued access to their services when they are temporarily present in another Member State; welcomes the Commission’s ongoing stakeholder dialogue on access to and the availability of audiovisual content across the EU; emphasises that further actions are needed to meet consumers expectations concerning the cross-catalogue availability of and cross-border access to sports events via streaming services; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to carefully assess all options that will reduce the unjustified and discriminatory geo- blocking barriers for access to audiovisual services and sports events, while taking into account the potential impact on diversity and the available financing of the creative sector; reminds the Commission to present Parliament with the outcome of its stakeholder dialogue on possibly extending the scope of the Geo-blocking Regulation to audiovisual content; notes that the limited availability of video content and live sports events particularly affects linguistic minorities and citizens exercising their right to free movement; acknowledges the fact that without access to the audio-visual content of their native language, it is very difficult for citizens to preserve and develop their mother tongue and culture; calls on the Commission to create a legal framework which guarantees linguistic minorities access to audiovisual content and live sports events broadcasted from the neighbouring countries in their mother tongue without geo-blocking; __________________ 12 Regulation (EU) 2017/1128 of 14 June 2017 on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market, OJ L 168, 30.6.2017, p.1.