12 Amendments of Marie-Christine VERGIAT related to 2010/2028(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas broadcasting is still the main source of information for most citizens in the EU and as such is uniquely placed to influence people’s values andpromote education in European values and to diversify people’s opinions,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas such a coexistence of public and commercial broadcasters has ensured a diverse range of programming, which benefits all EU citizens and contributes to media pluralism, cultural and linguistic diversity, editorialhealthy competition, (in terms of both content quality and diversity), and freedom of expression,
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas public broadcasters in some Member States are confronted with fundamental, life-threatening problems, both financially problems jeopardising their financial existence and politically independence, which poses a direct threat to the very existence of the dual system,
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reaffirms its attachment to the dual broadcasting system, where private and public media play their respective roles, and access to information must be ensured irrespective of consumers’ and users’ ability to pay;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights against this background the specific mission of public service broadcasting in the digital era to bring quality media content to as many European citizens as possible and to maintain a public sphere with the aim of overcoming audience fragmentation;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to address the digital divide – for example between urban and rural areas – and to ensure that, with digitisation, all individuals in all regions have equal access to public service broadcasting;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission broadcasting Communication of July 2009 and calls on Member States to implement its guidelines in order to maintain a balance amongst the digital media services on offer, to ensure fair competitiona balance between public broadcasting and private media and thus to preserve a vibrant media landscape in the online environment;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reminds Member States of their commitments to these European standards and urges them to provide appropriate and stable funding for public service media to enable them to fulfil their remit, guarantee their political and economic independence, contribute to an inclusive information and knowledge society and avoid a division between information haves and have-notsunequal access to information;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and Member States to give a mandate to the European Audiovisual Observatory to monitorverify the way in which Member States adhere to these standards, and insists that Member States should be held accountable for failing to fulfil these commitments;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out, in this context, that community broadcasters, especially in smaller communities, have problems with long-term financing (e.g. from advertising) and that there is potential here for using the new options available with digitisation in order to set up regional-level community broadcasting, covering a wide area;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Invites the Commission to launch an initiative on a possible legal framework for content aggregators under which search engines would contribute to content creation in order to safeguard users’ rights and above all freedom of expression, privacy and personal data protection; calls in this regard for particular attention to be paid to questions of transparency relating to: 1. the terms and conditions of use of those services; 2. the decisions taken by the providers of those services; 3. fair representation of research findings, whatever its source of funding; 4. provisions on content;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Emphasises the importance of media education for the responsible use of services provided by content aggregators;