3 Amendments of Mary HONEYBALL related to 2012/0180(COD)
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The statute of the collecting society shall provide for appropriate and effective mechanisms of participation of all its members in the collecting society's decision-making process. The representation of the different categories of members in the decision-making process shall be fair and balanced.
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Commission shall be empowered, by means of implementing acts, to assess the existence of cost-effective work usage monitoring technologies for the reporting of the actual use of rights, categories of rights, type of works or other subject matter, taking into account technological developments. The first assessment shall take place 6 months after the entry into force of this Directive and be followed by yearly updates. When the Commission identifies the existence of cost-effective usage monitoring technologies for certain rights, categories of rights or type of works, the reporting and payment requirements provided for online music rights in this Directive shall apply mutatis mutandis to such rights, categories of rights or type of works. Member States shall ensure that collecting societies and users apply cost- effective usage monitoring technologies without undue delay, when such technologies exist.
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. Where the amounts due to rightholders canhave not been distributed, after fivthree years from the end of the financial year in which the collection of the rights revenue occurreddate of entry into force of this Directive, and provided that the collecting society has taken all necessary measures to identify and locate the rightholders, the collecting society shall decide on the use of the amounts concerned in accordance with Article 7(5)(b), without prejudice to the right of the rightholder to claim such amounts from the collecting society.