Activities of Lothar BISKY related to 2012/2300(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on connected TV PDF (188 KB) DOC (140 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to review the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, inter alia with reference to competitiveness in the industry, and particularly to fully exploit the opportunities afforded by liberalisation or greater flexibility of quantitative rules on advertising;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that this review should encompass ways of further developing and approximating qualitative rules on advertising for all types of service at the highest level applicable in each case (for example as regards youth and consumer protection and bans on discrimination); considers that if, on the basis of this review, consideration is given to the greater flexibility or liberalisation of the rules on advertising, steps must be taken to ensure that advertising is always clearly identified as such;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that in an increasingly digital environment public media services play a key role in ensuring that people have access to information on the internet, and, in that connection, acknowledges that the provision of internet services is central to the remit of public media services; takes the view that this aspect of the remit of public media services must continue to be governed by specific legal rules, including as regards funding and State aid;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in addition to such ‘must be found’ rules, to consider to what extent a reform of media regulation so as to move towards incentive schemes and strengthen self- regulatory approaches can enable the aforesaid regulatory objectives of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive to be attained in a lasting fashion; emphasises, however, that any co- and self-regulation measures can only supplement legal provisions and that compliance with them must be monitored and the assessment of their effectiveness must be carried out by an independent public body;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Takes the view that the growing concentration of ownership in the areas of network infrastructure, radio and television stations and newspapers and magazines and of internet service providers, manufacturers of devices and platform providers may serve to undermine media pluralism and freedom of information, and calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to take account of these areas, including non-linear services, when monitoring mergers in the media sector;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to take legally binding measures to ensure that network operators systematically treat all data packets the same when forwarding them from dispatchers to receivers, i.e. that they do not give certain packets priority on the basis, for example, of origin, content, use or the fee charged to users, as this would run counter to the aim of guaranteeing fair universal access to services, data protection rules, the ban on data manipulation, the principle of the integrity of content and the aim of establishing fair conditions of competition;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission, in particular in the light of technological convergence, systematically to exclude audiovisual media services from the services covered by external trade agreements concluded by the EU, in keeping with the principle of ‘cultural exception’;