Activities of Lothar BISKY related to 2012/2132(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Implementation of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive PDF (241 KB) DOC (174 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the expansion of the audiovisual media services markets with the development of hybrid services has amplified concerns over a wide range of issues, such as competition, intellectual property rights, the evolution of existing and the emergence ofechnological development and practical use of audiovisual media services as well as expansion of AVMS markets (e. g. in hybrid services) and media market concentration trends illustrate the urgent need to review regulatory practice in a wide range of issues, such as competition taking into account its negative impacts on the services, copy right, consumer data protection, new forms of audiovisual commercial communications, and overlay advertising which challenges programme integrity and puts into question the adequacy and effectiveness of the AVMSD, as well as its relationship with other instruments of EU law;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. StresseConsiders that the AVMSD remains the appropriate instrumentseems to be an appropriate regulatory basis to govern the EU- wide coordination of national legislation on all audiovisual media, but stresses the need to permanently adapt it to technological developments and requirements of an information and media society, including questions of equal access, fair remuneration of authors, the protection of media freedom, cultural diversity, online privacy;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. ObservDeplores that the Commission application report fails to assess the need for a possible adaptation of the AVMSD in view of these findings, as required by Article 33;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights the fact that, in an increasingly digital environment, public media services play a crucial role in ensuring that citizens are able to access information online, and acknowledges in this regard that the provision of internet services by public media services contributes directly to their mission;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Considers that this mission of public services requires specific legal rules, including in terms of financing and state aids;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Considers that concentration of media ownership may undermine freedom of information, and in particular the right to receive information, and therefore requests the Commission to specify the ownership relations existing among the 7 500 broadcasters it has identified in the EU, with the aim of singling out the potential challenges relating to plurality in these media services;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes note of self-regulatory initiatives and codes of conducts designed to limit children and minors' exposure to food advertising and marketing, such as those launched within the framework of the Commission's Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, but stresses that self- regulatory initiatives may not be sufficiently effective in protecting minors from impacts of alcohol marketing, and therefore calls on the European Commission consider legal initiatives for EU wide regulation of alcohol marketing;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Requests the Commission to examine the real amount of advertising and to consider, in particular, whether there is a need for reducing the limit in view of possible complaints by consumers;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Asks the Commission to submit as soon as possible the clarifications needed in respect of the issues it has identified in the field of commercial communications concerning sponsorship, self-promotion and product placement;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. CReaffirms the importance of protecting minors in television broadcasting and calls on the Commission to analyse whether stricter rules are needed as regards advertising aimed at children and minors, with particular emphasis on misleading television and online advertising; recommends Member States to consider prohibiting any commercial communications in children's programmes, inter alia in order not to exhort minors to buy a product or a service by exploiting their inexperience or credulity;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to generally exclude audiovisual media services from the scope of services covered by EU external trade agreements in order to respect the principle of "cultural exception";