2020/2261(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 (new)

-1 having regard to the Preamble and Article 2, 3 and 4 of the Treaty of the European Union, as well as having regard to Articles 6 and 167 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and in particular its Article 19,

Amendment 10 #

A c. whereas culture, arts, cultural heritage and cultural diversity are of great value to European society from a cultural, educational, democratic, environmental, social, human rights and economic point of view and should be promoted and supported; whereas Europe's Cultural and Creative Sectors contribute substantially to a common European identity and our values, to our mental health and economical wealth, and in the long term to the creation of a European public sphere;

Amendment 100 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Q a. Whereas, in light of the consequences of the pandemic, a whole generation of young artists and cultural workers will struggle to find cultural employment or enrol in higher art education as a result of the narrowing of opportunities;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Q a. whereas thousands of people working in the field of CCS did not have the opportunity or the means to adapt to the changes caused by the Covid-19 crisis;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas access to finance remains the main challenge for individual artists, cultural and creative workers, micro, small and medium-sized organisations, as well as self-employed workers and freelancers, who are often ineligible for loans and bank guarantees and are highly dependent on public and private grants and subsidies;

Amendment 103 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas access to finance remains the main challenge ~~for individual artist~~especially for smaller actors in the CCS, including individual artists, artists collectives, and cultural and creative workers, who are often ineligible for loans and bank guarantees and are highly dependent on public and private grants and subsidies;

Amendment 104 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas access to finance remains ~~the main~~a challenge for individual artists and micro- organisations, who are often ineligible for loans and bank guarantees ~~and are highly dependent~~thus increasing the importance of access and availability onf public and private grants and subsidies available to all;

Amendment 105 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas many of the private investors and public funders have scaled back their financial support for cultural projects ~~during the crisis~~, especially those with cross- border dimension during the crisis which has once again demonstrated the importance of wide public sector support and the need for public investment in the sector in order to diminish gaps and disparities, as well as the importance of increasing direct European support to counterbalance this fall in funding;

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas many private investors have scaled back their financial support for cultural projects ~~during the crisis~~, especially those with a cross-border dimension, during the crisis; whereas this underlines the importance of reliable and constant public funding;

Amendment 107 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas many of the private investors ~~have scaled back their financial support for cultural projects~~and public funders have scaled back or completely cancelled their financial support for cultural projects, especially those with cross-border dimension, during the crisis;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

S a. whereas the sector is still facing gender gaps and disparities as women are under-represented in key creative roles and face additional challenges such as lack of access, gender pay gap, obstacles to representation and visibility; whereas these challenges also affect certain ethnic groups ad people with vulnerable socio- economic background and people with disabilities, whereas these groups are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic; whereas women, ethnic minorities and LGBTIQ+ artists are more often targets of attacks and are more vulnerable to restrictions;

Amendment 109 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

S a. whereas the crisis led to a boom of online distribution of cultural content, including the streaming of audio-visual works from international platforms, such as Netflix and Spotify; whereas these streaming companies are predominantly US-based and apply US law when entering contractual relations with European artists, performers and other cultural workers for the creation of content; whereas such contracts do not afford the same level of respect for and protection of authors’ and adjacent rights, as guaranteed under EU law;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

A d. whereas the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) are comprised of all sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or other artistic individual or collective creative expressions, as defined in the legal basis of the Creative Europe Programme; whereas this definition includes the cultural and creative industries as well as non-commercial sectors such as cultural heritage, cultural education and research; whereas there is no comprehensive EU definition of ‘artists’ adding to the difficulties encountered especially in terms of cross- border mobility;

Amendment 110 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

S a. whereas a gender gap pervades in the CCS, and women in all their diversity are under-represented in key creative roles; women artists are often silenced and subject to disproportionate criticism as a result of their work and women and LGBTIQ+ artists are more likely to be targeted by attacks or subjected to restrictions;

Amendment 111 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

S a. whereas although the participation of women in the cultural and creative sectors is high, there is still much gender based discrimination and they rarely occupy decision-making positions in cultural institutions,

Amendment 112 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Łukasz KOHUT, Dace MELBĀRDE, Alexis GEORGOULIS, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Diana RIBA I GINER, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)

S b. Whereas culture, arts, cultural heritage, and cultural diversity are of great value to European society from a cultural, educational, democratic, environmental, social, human rights and economic point of view and should be promoted and supported. Whereas Education and culture are key to building inclusive and cohesive societies for all, fostering integration, and sustaining European competitiveness;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)

S b. whereas artists and cultural professionals from minority groups including women, young people, representatives of racial, ethnic and geographic minorities, people with vulnerable socio-economic background, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ people have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers and are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic;

Amendment 114 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)

S b. whereas streaming services based outside of the EU have increased their investments in Member States’ CCS infrastructures, for the purposes of creating further content destined for online distribution;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S c (new)

S c. whereas artists are often subject to racism, xenophobia, discrimination and exclusion based on their perceived identity as a result of structural and institutional racism and tokenism that result in strained relationships and collaborations with relevant institutions as well as in obstruction of their artistic freedom;

Amendment 116 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S d (new)

S d. where as young artists experience exacerbated precarity, with artists under 30 being more likely to be unemployed, to accept unpaid work and to be subject to exploitative working conditions such as unpaid salaries and precarious contracts;

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S e (new)

S e. whereas artists with disabilities are excluded from policy and funding in the CCS due to a lack of consideration, for example in terms of restricted mobility or challenges posed by bureaucratic funding procedures;

Amendment 118 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas freedom of expression and freedom of the arts, as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, are sometimes hindered by the use of antiterrorism legislation or allegations that artistic works insult religious feelings or national symbols, also resulting in cases of (self-)censorship, as well as in criminal prosecutions of artists, thus criminalizing artistic and cultural creation; notes that strong advertising pressure is also retaining artistic freedom;

Amendment 119 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas freedom of expression and freedom of the arts, as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, are currently under threat in several Member States and are sometimes hindered by the use of antiterrorism legislation or allegations that artistic works insult religious feelings or national symbols or are deemed to be offensive or inappropriate, also resulting in cases of self-censorship;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)

A e. whereas the European Cultural and Creative Sectors account for between 4 and 7% of the European gross domestic product and 8.7 million jobs in the EU;

Amendment 120 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)

T a. whereas there is no single, universally accepted definition for what encompasses being an ‘artist’; whereas such definitions are subject to national and regional specificities and must remain within the purview of each Member State; whereas, nevertheless, many workers in the cultural and creative industries, including but not limited to writers, literary translators, producers, technicians, etc, suffer from uncertainty due to the lack of consistent definition of their status;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T b (new)

T b. whereas the state of national aid programmes during the crisis, particularly aid to CCS workers who do not fall under national definitions of artists, including but not limited to freelancers such as writers and authors, was and continues to be fragmented;

Amendment 122 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the ~~fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of EU citizens~~intrinsic value of culture, as well as the fundamental role of culture for society, its progress and development, our well-being and the economy, and to translate this recognition into continuous financial and structural support;

Amendment 123 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and ~~the~~all Member States to recognise the fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of EU citizens and the economy, and to translate this recognition into adequate and continuous financial and structural support;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of EU citizens and the economy and inclusiveness, and to translate this recognition into financial and structural support;

Amendment 125 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of EU citizens and the economy, and to translate this recognition into continuous financial and structural support;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 127 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY, Christian EHLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of ~~EU citizens~~people and the economy, and to translate this recognition into continuous financial and structural support;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Regrets that cultural activity has often been considered as non-essential; recalls that culture plays an essential role in our society all the more so during a crisis and calls, therefore, to reopen all cultural places as soon as possible; acknowledges that for cultural and creative sector to survive current challenges, it is central to ensure immediate support and put in place all the necessary emergency measures, but also to reflect on an orderly relaunch of this vital sector,providing structural support in terms of innovation programmes and budget, but also learning opportunities in this field for the young generation;

Amendment 129 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls on the Commission to further develop and substantiate the industrial policy framework for the CCSI ecosystem into a coherent, competitive and long-term strategy in order to boost their competitiveness, their strategic value for the European economy and the European way of life, and enable them to meet their potentials in terms of jobs and growth creation; highlights the potential of CCIs regarding youth employment and reindustrialisation and in particular the growing opportunities in the cultural and creative sectors and industries created by the digital environment for young people

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)

A g. whereas so far there has been only limited Union competence in the field of culture; whereas the Parliament had to fight hard to achieve a significant increase in the budget for the Creative Europe programme; whereas Creative Europe is the sole Union programme dedicated to culture; whereas this programme's funding still falls far short of the needs of our European artists and the whole Cultural and Creative Sectors;

Amendment 130 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls the Commission and the Member States to include the CCS in all financial supporting tools, such as the InvestEU and the NextGenerationEU; stresses the importance of channelling these resources based on the particularities of the different sectors and dimensions of targeted actors in order to ensure compatible solutions that do not create further inequalities within the EU.

Amendment 131 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Calls on the Commission to urgently publish guidelines to facilitate the safe re-opening of cultural venues and organisation of cultural activities;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate barriers to ~~cross-border mobility in~~sustainable, balanced and inclusive cross-border mobility in the EU, with a special focus on sustainability, better coordination, fostering mutual recognition of artistic education and training skills among Member states, promoting the elimination of bureaucratic barriers and further provision of financial motivation with EU funding, while taking under consideration the specific features of the CCS such as seasonality, uncertainty of income of cultural events and the need for cultural agents to organize in advance touring locations, as well as including as eligible third countries with possible agreements with the EU;

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate barriers to ~~cross-border mobility in the EU~~sustainable, balanced and inclusive cross-border mobility of artists and cultural works in the EU, with a special focus on sustainability, with third countries that are candidates or potential candidates to the accession, that are members of the European Economic Area (EEA), the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) or with which the Union has other relevant cooperation agreements;

Amendment 134 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate barriers to cross-border mobility in the EU, in particular to remove barriers to cross-border mobility for artists with disabilities;

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate barriers to cross-border mobility in the EU and with third countries for artists and cultural professionals;

Amendment 136 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate barriers to sustainable, balanced and inclusive cross-border mobility in the EU;

Amendment 137 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide authors, performers, other creative professionals and workers in the CCSI with clear information and guidelines on mobility opportunities and administrative requirements in all Member States, including on visas, taxation, social security and access to training, as well on Union programmes and funds that can serve their needs, such as Creative Europe, but also those not directly or specifically targeted at the CCS;

Amendment 138 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide workers and cultural professionals in the CCSI with clear information and guidelines on mobility opportunities and administrative requirements in all Member States, including on visas, taxation, social security and access to training; calls for specific programmes dedicated to the mobility of young creators and innovators to promote exchanges and innovation in the fields of culture and creativity;

Amendment 139 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to enhance and strengthen its commitment and activities to build opportunities for artists and cultural workers, provide workers in the CCSI with clear information and guidelines on mobility opportunities and revise administrative requirements in all Member States, including on visas, taxation, social security and access to training, with a view on simplifying and unifying access to all aforementioned;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise micro, small and medium-sized ~~enterprises (SMEs) and self-employe~~organisations and enterprises with restricted access to financial markets, as well as self-employed artists, cultural workers, freelancers and entrepreneurs, who often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources;

Amendment 140 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide workers in the CCSI with clear information and guidelines on mobility opportunities and administrative requirements in all Member States, including on visas, taxation, social security ~~and access to training~~, health insurance, funding opportunities, access to training and recognition of artistic education degrees;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and support sustainable mobility; recommends that all Member States establish ~~one~~at least one such mobility and information point to offer free and tailored support to artists and cultural and creative workers;

Amendment 143 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and support sustainable mobility; and recommends that all Member States establish ~~one~~at least one to offer free and tailored support to artists and cultural and creative workers;

Amendment 144 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and support sustainable mobility; recommends that all Member States establish ~~one~~at least one, to offer free and tailored support to artists and cultural and creative workers;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and cultural professionals and recommends that all Member States establish one;

Amendment 146 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and ~~recommends that~~calls on all Member States to establish one;

Amendment 147 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Condemns that most Member States failed to implement the Directive on Copyright and the Digital Single Market on time before the deadline of 7 June 2021; Regrets that the Commission only published the guidelines three days before the deadline for implementation; Believes that this demonstrates the need for a Regulation also for procedural matters;

Amendment 148 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. calls on the Commission to provide clear information for artists on mobility issues related to the EU-UK relations

Amendment 149 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. encourages Member States to allow cultural and creative professionals tax deduction of business expenses in relation to their artistic activity as well as costs concerning equipment or training (upskilling and reskilling);

Amendment 15 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), freelancers and self-employed entrepreneurs, who often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources, and do not benefit from social security schemes, such as pension, unemployment and healthcare;

Amendment 150 #

Monica SEMEDO, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Laurence FARRENG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. underlines the need for detailed gender-disaggregated, comparable data and statistics on cultural employment and income in CCSI,

Amendment 151 #

Monica SEMEDO, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Łukasz KOHUT, Dace MELBĀRDE, Alexis GEORGOULIS, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Diana RIBA I GINER, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4 d. Encourages greater synergy between the cultural and educational sector and promotes greater participation of artistic and cultural schools and institutions in activities under Erasmus+, and in other actions under EU programmes, both for students and teachers;

Amendment 152 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Helwin PETER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market and, in particular, to guarantee fair remuneration for authors and performers, fully respecting the balanced compromises made on European level; calls on the Commission to put pressure on the Member States in the transposition phase and to closely monitor the national transpositions and their conformity with the EU-Directive; expresses its dissatisfaction with some national implementations undermining the principles of the Directive, causing harm to artists and creators for the financial exploitation of their work; furthermore articulates its dissatisfaction with the work the Commission has done to secure EU-conform national solutions and the continued delay in the publication of the guidelines; continues its call for the stronger fight against (online-)piracy of CCSI products;

Amendment 153 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market with a strong focus on protection of cultural and creative works and those creating them, and, in particular, to guarantee fair and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers; calls on the Commission to closely monitor effective implementation of these key principles; Notes that the Directive (EU) 2019/790 has the potential to bring a fair balance between creators and content sharing platforms in the digital market by providing new liability rules on platforms, and the obligation for all intermediaries and contractual partners to ensure fair and proportionate remuneration;

Amendment 154 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market and, in particular, to guarantee fair remuneration for authors and performers; emphasizes the crucial role of the compliance with copyright regulations in creating opportunities and a fair digital environment for artists who promote their work as digital content creators so that they can justly benefit from the revenue of their efforts; stresses, further, the need to establish appropriate and proportionate remuneration mechanisms for their works and its exploitation throughout the EU;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Calls on the~~Urges Member States to ~~transpos~~complete by all means as soon as possible the transposition of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market and, in particular, to guarantee ~~fair~~appropriate and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers, as well as of the Directive (EU) 2019/789 for the online distribution of television and radio programmes; calls on the Members States to set transparent public consultation procedures in order to actively involve the civil society and representing organizations of artists during these transposition processes;

Amendment 156 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on ~~the~~all Member States to fully transpose Directive (EU) 2019/790 on cCopyright in the dDigital sSingle mMarket without any further delay and, in particular, to guarantee ~~fair remuneration for authors and performers~~the enforcement of the right of all authors and performers to appropriate and proportionate remuneration, as well as transparency, in all parts of the CCS; Calls on the Commission to ensure that all Member States fulfil their respective legal obligations by immediately commencing relevant proceedings against all Member States that failed to transpose the directive by the set deadline;

Amendment 157 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to ~~transpose~~accelerate the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market and, in particular, to guarantee fair remuneration for authors and performers;

Amendment 158 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Points out the importance of territorial licenses in the business model of a majority of CCS entities; reminds the mid-term review of the European Commission on the unjustified geo- blocking regulation; points out the necessity to take into account, before considering any follow-up measures, the voices of the rightholders in any discussion on copyright-protected content; reminds that revenue from copyright represents the core of the fair remuneration of artists and creators, but also of many small players of the CCS; reminds that any drastic change in this field could conduct to dramatic consequences for many of them;

Amendment 159 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY, Christian EHLER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Highlights that the current pandemic has amplified the dependency of artists and users on dominant, mostly non-EU, digital platforms; considers that a timely implementation and accurate interpretation of the Copyright Directive must be of the highest priority in all Member States of the EU, as it provides the regulatory provisions that protect the position of creators and right holders in the context of online use of their content and guarantee cultural diversity;

Amendment 16 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise of micro, small and medium-sized organisations and enterprises (SMEs), and self-employed and freelance professionals and entrepreneurs, who often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources;

Amendment 160 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Regrets that the national transposition of Directives2019/790 and 2019/789 are rather delayed, while only a few Member States seize the Article 18 opportunity to implement appropriate remuneration mechanisms; urges Members States to translate Article 18 of the 2019/790 Directive into effective remuneration mechanisms;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission to promote collective rights management in the implementation of the recently adopted directives on copyright, as well as in its forthcoming initiatives to ensure fair remuneration of creators and wide access to cultural and creative works for the public;

Amendment 162 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Urges the Commission to effectively implement gender equality, inclusion and integration initiatives in culture and audiovisual fields through the Creative Europe Programme and to monitor the results;

Amendment 163 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Recalls the systemic importance that the digital sphere and platforms have acquired not only before but especially since the beginning of the sanitary crisis in the diffusion of artistic works; recalls that for some artists and creators who were mainly dependent on public events, this change in economic paradigm represents a challenge in terms of stability of revenue; is worried about the fact that many artists and creators cannot ensure in this new business model the same amount of revenue; asks therefore the Commission to evaluate and to take concrete measures to ensure that revenues generated by platforms and other content providers are duly and fairly redistributed to all creators, artists and right holders;

Amendment 164 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Invites the Commission to evaluate the impact of music streaming platforms in Europe, in order to ensure transparency on their recommendation algorithms, as they determine to a great extent what content their consumers listen to and see on the services’ playlists and user interfaces, and to consider the introduction of positive obligations to promote cultural diversity and discoverability of European works in their services;

Amendment 165 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Highlights the need for transparency on behalf of online platforms so that they provide to Collective Management Organizations at least the minimum of information they need in order to effectively ensure authors’ fair remuneration;

Amendment 166 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. strongly condemns stereotypes, sexism and sexual harassment in the CCSI;

Amendment 167 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Asks the Commission to come forward with concrete measures that will discourage and stop buy-out and work- for-hire contracts imposed on cultural creators by dominant and large platforms on streaming intermediary services, as such contractual practices are creating a fundamental threat to the working conditions and remuneration rights of creators;

Amendment 168 #

Monica SEMEDO, Morten LØKKEGAARD, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Calls on Member States and the Commission to ensure the payment of a fee or in form of taxation by platforms in order to remunerate authors and performers as well as to establish further regular funding sources the CCS;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5 c. Welcomes the initiatives of some Member States to encourage gender equality in the selection process for higher positions in public cultural institutions

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise micro, small and medium-sized ~~enterprises (SMEs) and self-employed entrepreneu~~organisations, as well as self-employed workers and freelancers, who often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources;

Amendment 170 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to apply best practices in order to ensure fair and proportionate remuneration to authors and performers; suggests for the provision of legislation which would provide for an unwaivable and untransferable right to remuneration paid by the users and collectively managed; highlights the need to make intellectual property rights and their practical implementation implications an explicit and integral part of a European framework for working conditions and employment in the CCS;

Amendment 171 #

Monica SEMEDO, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Łukasz KOHUT, Dace MELBĀRDE, Alexis GEORGOULIS, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Diana RIBA I GINER, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5 d. Recognises the crucial role of culture and arts in promoting cultural diversity and fostering inclusive societies and the fight against any kind of discrimination;

Amendment 172 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s inception impact assessment and ~~ongoing~~recent public consultation on collective bargaining ~~agreements, which is designed to def~~for self-employed, which is examining the possibility of removineg the scompe ~~of application of EU competition rules in order to remove obstac~~tition law obstacle to collective bargaining for self-employed, urges in this regard that the Commission take the broadest possibles a~~nd improve working conditions through~~pproach, in order to ensure access to collective bargaining ~~on behalf of~~for all solo -self-employed ~~workers in the CCSI;~~, including artists and cultural workers; encourages national governments and social partners to ensure their full representation in collective bargaining to improve their working conditions and ensure their fair and proportionate remuneration,

Amendment 173 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s inception impact assessment and ongoing public consultation on collective bargaining agreements, which is designed to define the scope of application of EU competition rules in order to remove obstacles and improve working conditions through collective bargaining on behalf of ~~solo~~ self-employed workers in the CCSI; invites the Commission to further evaluate current state aid rules and their application for the CCSI and the possible needs for adaptation;

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s inception impact assessment and ongoing public consultation on collective bargaining agreements, which is designed to define the scope of application of EU competition rules in order to remove obstacles ~~and~~, improve working conditions and guarantee minimum standards in terms of income, social security, pension and health insurance access through collective bargaining on behalf of solo artists, self- employed workers and freelancers in the CCSI;

Amendment 175 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s inception impact assessment and ongoing public consultation on collective bargaining agreements, which is designed to define the scope of application of EU competition rules in order to remove obstacles and improve working conditions through collective bargaining on behalf of solo self-employed workers and freelancers in the CCSI;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Urges the Commission and Member States to limit the predatory practice of buyout contracts that prevents artists and workers in the CCS from receiving royalties; highlights that this could be successfully achieved by implementing Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market, which gives transparency rights to authors;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission for the promotion of collective bargaining with transparent and open public consultation procedures and regrets that contractual freedom often leaves cultural creators in a weak and isolated position when negotiating their contracts with producers;

Amendment 178 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls on Member states to acknowledge the right of association for all workers in the CCS, regardless of their working status, to improve their bargaining position and to introduce fair pay as a principle for (working) contracts within the CCS;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Points out that the atypical employment (part-time and fixed-duration contracts, temporary work and economically dependent self-employment) of artists and cultural professionals, specifically in the media and culture sector, is commonplace; Underlines the urgent need to improve the working conditions in the CCSI; encourages the Member States to utilise upward convergence to establish minimum standards for artists and cultural ~~worker~~professionals in relation to working conditions and social security;

Amendment 18 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and self-employed entrepreneurs and freelancers, who often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources;

Amendment 180 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines the urgent need to improve the working conditions in the CCSI; encourages the Member States to utilise upward convergence to establish minimum standards for artists and cultural ~~workers in relation to working conditions and social secur~~and creative workers, including technicians,backstage workers and other staff, in relation to working conditions, income, social security, pension and health insurance, while taking under consideration the special characteristics of the CCS such as seasonal work and the non-monetized quality of creativity;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Underlin~~Reiterates the urgent need to improve the working conditions in the CCSI~~; encourages the Member States to utilise upward convergence to~~ and calls on the Commission to propose a European Status of the Artists establishing minimum standards for artists and cultural workers in relation to working conditions ~~and social security~~, unemployment, social protection and pension schemes; Welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists as a first step in this direction;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 183 #

Peter POLLÁK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines the urgent need to improve the working conditions in the CCSI; encourages the Member States to utilise upward convergence to establish minimum standards for a~~rtist~~uthors, performers and all cultural creators and cultural workers in relation to working conditions, fair remuneration and social security;

Amendment 185 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on the Member States to fully include access to art education as part of a holistic approach for the CCSI recovery; notes the importance of providing access to lifelong learning and training through, among others, mentoring programmes, as well as the development of EU-wide training material for the transition from education to cultural and creative employment;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

~~8. Recommends the creation of a European framework for working conditions in the CCSI; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists;~~deleted

Amendment 187 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Repeatedly recommends the creation of a European framework for working conditions in the CCSI~~; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists~~ while fully respecting the responsibilities of Member States and the EU in regards to labour market and cultural policy, through the adoption or application of a number of coherent and comprehensive guidelines with respect, but not exclusively, to contracts, means of collective representation and management, social security, sickness insurance, direct and indirect taxation, non-tariff barriers and information asymmetries; however underlines that a one-fits-all solution will not be plausible due to the large divergences between Member States in the beforementioned areas; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists; appreciates the concrete actions laid down in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and urges the Member States to undertake all necessary efforts to fulfil the promises made;

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recomme~~Calls on the Member States ands the ~~creation of a~~ European Commission to create a European framework for working conditions in the CCS~~I; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the statu~~ which could set minimum standards common to all EU countries, including harmonised definitions of relevant terms related to the CCS, especially that of 'artist', to facilitate cross-border mobility and recognition, and minimum standards and requirements with regards to the working conditions of artists; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists; calls for the establishment of a working group in the framework of the OMC to facilitate best practice sharing between Member States as well as to facilitate the monitoring of progress in relation to the amelioration of the conditions of artists;

Amendment 189 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recomme~~Urges Member States ands the ~~creation of~~European Commission to create a European framework for working conditions in the CCSI that sets minimum standards common to all EU countries; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas self-employment is higher (33%) in the cultural and creative sector sector than in employment for the total economy (14%) and cultural and artistic workers are more likely to work part-time which leads to challenges in accessing support measures, safety nets and reduces their overall resilience;

Amendment 190 #

8 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to establish a code-of- conduct or some kind of artistic procedures’ certifications in order to safeguard, at a European-level, Occupational Safety and Health against sexual and any other harassment, violence, bullying or any other forms of abuse, in the CCS and regarding cultural production and performance, including artistic training and education, since according to the study: “When combined with hierarchies and power relations, gender inequality often takes the shape of sexism and sexual harassment in the cultural and creative sectors, where it seems to be more prevalent than in other economic sectors”;

Amendment 191 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls for support for education and training, in the creative and cultural sector at EU level in order to enable artists to develop new skills and reach their full potential;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Recommends that social protection systems allow artists and cultural and creative workers to access benefit schemes such as unemployment allowance and pensions;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Calls on the Commission to map existing definitions of artists and cultural workers across Member States in view to develop a common understanding to be reflected in EU policy-making and cultural statistics; notes that such definition should take into account the process-oriented nature of cultural work and recognise the labour intensity of the different stages of the creative process; considers that such definition should also aligned with the 1980 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artists;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)

8 c. Recommends the equal recognition of forms of cultural and creative work, including activities that are not (or barely) monetised, among others;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls for greater cross-border portability and recognition of cultural and creative skills, qualifications and diplomas in order to facilitate mobility for ~~cultural and creative players~~people working in the CCS;

Amendment 196 #

Monica SEMEDO, Łukasz KOHUT, Andrey SLABAKOV, Dace MELBĀRDE, Alexis GEORGOULIS, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Diana RIBA I GINER, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to support vocational training programmes and initiatives for the career development of all authors, performers and cultural creators, and in particular to support them in acquiring digital, entrepreneurial and other skills in order benefit from digital opportunities to promote their work and collaborate with other artists;

Amendment 197 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Recommends the Commission and the Member States to provide increased and consistent information on sustainable mobility through initiatives such as updated toolkits and handbooks, as well as the revision of existing ones;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Recommends an increased and consistent information on sustainable mobility through policies such as updated toolkits, handbooks and guidelines, as well as the revision of existing ones;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9 b. Urges Member States and the Commission for social protection systems that allow equal access for artists and cultural and creative workers as for all other citizens to benefit schemes such as unemployment allowance and pensions, taking under consideration the specific characteristics of their work and of the CCS such as seasonality, the non- standard nature of employment, the non- monetized value of creativity, the recognition of rehearsals and the hours of crafting, painting or any hours of artistic work as working hours officially recognized in terms of remuneration, social security and health insurance benefits; urges Member States and the Commission to take specific measures for the different categories of the creative professions to tackle unstable income, unpaid work and job insecurity and safeguard a total minimum standard for their income;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

— having regard to the Council conclusions of 18 May 2021 on the recovery, resilience and sustainability of the cultural and creative sectors,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas certain Member States undermine artistic freedom in Europe by state interference and politically driven restrictions, e.g. autocrats taking control of art academies, or by instituting ideological criteria for public funding; whereas artistic freedom is further threatened by the absence of social security for many cultural workers, and by cultural diversity being increasingly consumed by mainstream commerce;

Amendment 200 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges ~~the~~all Member States to fulfil their ~~obligation to defend and respect~~responsibility and obligation to respect, foster and defend artistic freedom in order to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression and to ensure that EU citizens can freely enjoy and consume artistic creations and participate in culture; invites the European Commission to develop further research on the topic and prepare a roadmap for achieving better protection of freedom of artistic expression in Europe; calls upon the Member States to jointly establish a structured dialogue amongst artists, legal experts and relevant stakeholders to determine common standards for freedom of artistic expression and develop and implement relevant guidelines;

Amendment 201 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to fulfil their obligation to defend and respect artistic freedom in order to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression and ensure that EU citizens can ~~freely enjoy and consume artistic creations~~enjoy free access to and participation in culture; invites the European Commission to develop further research on the topic and prepare a roadmap for achieving better protection of freedom of artistic expression in Europe;

Amendment 202 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to fulfil their obligation to defend and respect artistic freedom in order to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression and sanction those continuously oppressing it, and ensure that EU citizens can freely enjoy and consume artistic creations;

Amendment 203 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Calls on the Commission to map existing definitions across Member States of artists and cultural and creative workers, including technicians, backstage and other staff, and to foster dialogue with the Civil Society in order to come up with one single and inclusive wording in the EU’s policy-making and in the European framework for working conditions in the CCS; suggests for a definition that would reflect the diversity of the CCS as well as the civil society’s self-definition, through a process-oriented approach, such as by recognising the labour intensity of the creative process, including research and preparation; also, this definition should be aligned with the 1980 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artists;

Amendment 205 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Calls on the Commission to map existing definitions of artists and cultural workers across Member States, in view of an inclusive wording in the EU’s policy- making and in the European framework for working conditions in the CCS, supporting a process-oriented approach, e.g. by recognising the labour intensity of the creative process, including research and preparation, and also aligned with the 1980 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artists;

Amendment 206 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take due account of the unique situation of artists from marginalised communities including women artists, artists with disabilities, artists from racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTIQ+ artists and artists from socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds in the development of all relevant policies, funding programmes and activities connected to the CCS;

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10 b. Recommends the equal recognition of the multiple forms of artistic and cultural and creative work, including the activities that are not (or barely) monetised, among others;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Welcomes the Council’s recent conclusions on the recovery, resilience and sustainability of the Cultural and Creative Sectors, in particular with regards to the call for a fair and sustainable labour market and social protections for CCS professionals as well as the need to secure artists’ income; calls upon Member States to work towards the swift implementation of these conclusions;

Amendment 209 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)

10 c. Recommends the equal recognition of the multiple forms of artistic and cultural and creative work, including the activities that are not (or barely) monetised, among others;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas in some Member States certain cultural and creative professionals do not enjoy any legal status at all;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to reconsider access to basic social protection for artists, regardless of their employment status; encourages Member States to review their social protection systems in order to ensure a better access to benefits such as unemployment, pensions or health protection for artists and cultural workers;

Amendment 211 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ~~reconsider~~ensure full access to ~~basic~~ social protection systems for artists and cultural workers, regardless of their employment status, and including access to unemployment allowance, health care and pensions;

Amendment 212 #

Peter POLLÁK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to reconsider access to basic social protection for artists, regardless of their employment status, and, if necessary, to adapt legislation accordingly;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ~~reconsider~~ensure access to ~~basic~~comprehensive social protection for artists, regardless of their employment status, gender, ethnic background or social status;

Amendment 214 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on Member States to remove all obstacles for achieving gender equality in the sector, namely by introducing measures which enable equal access, participations and representation of all cultural workers and artists, specifically for women, LGBTIQ+ persons, persons with disabilities, young persons, ethnic minorities and persons with vulnerable socio-economic status;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on the Member States to fully include access to art education, including to expand understanding and appreciation for art and culture as well as to encourage the development of cultural and artistic work for everybody, as part of a holistic approach for recovery not only for the CCS, but for our society as a whole;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Calls on the Member States to fully include access to art education as part of a holistic approach for the CCS recovery;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to broaden employment opportunities for artists and arts experts by mainstreaming the teaching of arts in the curricula of schooling education, which would further contribute in development of fantasy, innovation and creativity for the citizens of tomorrow, while cultivating audiences to appreciate culture and strengthening social cohesion;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Calls on the Member States to provide access to free lifelong learning and training for all learners through, among others, mentoring programmes, as well as the development of EU-wide training material for the transition from education to employment;

Amendment 219 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

11 c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to foster the green and the digital transition, innovation and creativity, research and development as well as employment opportunities for artists by supporting cooperation across disciplinary domains, such as between the CCS and science and technology;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

B c. whereas the overall situation in the artistic and cultural work is characterized by intermittence, heterogeneity and instability and it is often not fairly paid or sufficiently protected;

Amendment 220 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to facilitate skills’ development paths by supporting cooperation between higher art education institutions, arts councils, skills councils, as well as across disciplinary domains, such as with science and technology;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11 d. Calls for the Member States and the Institutions to reduce working time, e.g. by installing a four-day working week, in order to give people the chance to spend more time enjoying culture and expressing themselves artistically;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to encourage and promote private investment in the ~~CCSI~~cultural and creative industries; Calls on the Member States to encourage and promote both public and private support and donations in the CCS; Calls on the Member States to ensure easier access to finance for artists and all cultural creators in the whole CCS; Emphasizes that no private investment in culture can or should ever replace or diminish any public spending for culture nor the responsibility of the public to adequately funding culture, because independent art requires freedom from economic restraints;

Amendment 223 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to encourage and promote private investment in the CCSI, as well as public-private partnerships, by providing financial motivation, such as through reduced VAT rates, tax reductions and overall fiscal or other measures and tools;

Amendment 224 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to increase their support to the CCSI through strengthening the public investment and encourageing and promoteing private investment in the CCSI;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to encourage and promote private investment and access to EU funding in the CCSI;

Amendment 226 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Highlights the importance of preserving the traditional European ecosystem in the cultural and creative industries as a whole and in particular the European model for creating cultural works; urges Member States who collaborate closely with large online streaming platforms to monitor their investments into CCS infrastructure; cautions against excessive transformation of national CCS infrastructures for the purposes of meeting the current high demand for online audio-visual content, which may lead to the transposition of the current global entertainment model on EU territory; underlines that such a model may be sustainable for larger and more robust national CCS, but would deny a level playing field for many Member States and their sectors; strongly opposes such a trend and considers it a threat to the traditional model of EU cultural diversity in CCS;

Amendment 227 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide sufficient financial support and to eliminate administrative barriers to innovation in the cultural and creative sectors with a view to contributing to the sectors’ sustainability and resilience.

Amendment 228 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on the Member States to diversify the sources of support to CCSI and ensure no financial cuts and diminishing of existing funds will be implemented as the sector is still struggling with the aftermath of the last cuts;

Amendment 229 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12 b. Underlines the need to protect European artists, performers, authors and workers in the CCS from the predatory Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) practices of large streaming platforms based outside the EU; calls, therefore, on Member States to reinforce their national IPR protection frameworks against such practices; further calls on the Commission to include measures for IPR protection in its upcoming actions as outlined by the IPR Action Plan;

Amendment 23 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the containment measures taken by the Member States affected the C~~CSI more than any other sector~~ultural and Creative Sectors more than any other part of our society and economy; whereas the CCSI experienced losses in turnover of over 30 % for 2020 – a cumulative loss of EUR 199 billion – with the music and performing arts sectors experiencing losses of 75 % and 90 % respectively8 ; _________________ 8Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

Amendment 231 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to update and adapt the funding envelopes for culture and to facilitate access to public grants and loans by reducing administrative burdens at all stages of the application and reporting processes, and to actively promote the existence and use of public funds with a targeted approach;

Amendment 232 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to update and adapt the funding envelopes for culture and to facilitate access to public grants and loans by reducing administrative burdens and ensure transparency at all stages of the application and reporting processes;

Amendment 233 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate access to public grants and loans, and to EU funding, by reducing administrative burdens at all stages of the application and reporting processes;

Amendment 234 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to dedicate sector-specific funding covering all different art forms as well as innovative – experimental combinations among art forms, targeted not only to legal entities but also to individuals and also, boosting transnational cooperation;

Amendment 235 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to generate new and innovative ways to support the CCS in the long-term by providing resources and infrastructure; suggests for example the granting for free to artists and players of the CCS public spaces and buildings to display their work or to be used as working spaces for workshop-seminars- rehearsal spaces throughout the year or for certain time periods;

Amendment 236 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to include culture in the national recovery and resilience plans and to earmark at least 2 % of the budget envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to culture; Is concerned by indications that submitted Plans appear to earmark a lower %; Calls on the Commission to publish data on amounts and purpose of funds earmarked in the Plans to ensure transparency and facilitate democratic oversight;

Amendment 237 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to include culture in the national recovery and resilience plans and to earmark at least 2 % of the budget envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to culture; stresses that is crucial for an adequate part of the economic recovery measures to be directed to the cultural and creative sectors in order to promote and ensure an effective support for this sectors.

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to include culture in the national recovery and resilience plans and to earmark at least 2 % of the budget envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to culture and is alarmed about the lack of dedicated funding to the sectors and industries as proposed by some Member States;

Amendment 239 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the containment measures taken by the Member States affected the CCSI more than any other sector; whereas the CCSI experienced losses in turnover of over 30 % for 2020 – a cumulative loss of EUR 199 billion – with the music and performing arts sectors experiin response to the COVID-19 pandemic across the Union have severely undermined the fragile cultural and creative ecosystem, thus endangering the cultural and artistic creation and expression and weakencing ~~losses of 75 % and 90 % respectively8 ; _________________ 8Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.~~the invaluable contribution of arts and culture on our wellbeing, cultural diversity, social cohesion, democracy and more;

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to include culture in each of the national recovery and resilience plans and to earmark in every Member State at least 2 % of the budget envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to culture;

Amendment 241 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Reiterates the importance of supporting all cultural sectors, including cultural mediation professions, which play a vital role as an interface between the public and the artistic work or heritage, thereby ensuring access to and dissemination of culture to a wide audience;

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Encourages for synergies between relevant EU programmes such as Creative Europe, Erasmus+, Horizon Europe, the Cohesion Policy Funds and the RRF to be exploited in order to better support artists and provide new and accessible funding streams;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop new funding mechanisms that remove exclusive and inaccessible funding practices in order to make access to finance easier and more accessible especially for small artists collectives and individuals, including those located in rural areas and outside of large cities, including through the provision of funding centred on training, materials and working space to facilitate the holistic development of artists outside of project based work;

Amendment 244 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term recovery of the ~~CCSI~~whole cultural ecosystem and to bolster the resilience and competitiveness of the~~se industries in the long term~~ CCS in the long term, and to reinforce these sectors by providing fair and structured support to especially the most vulnerable actors within the CCS as well as by ensuring comprehensive monitoring of the socio- economic situation in the CCS with the help of the European Framework for working conditions, in order to tackle any major crises as effectively as possible in the future;

Amendment 245 #

Monica SEMEDO, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term and the long-term recovery of the CCSI and to bolster their resilience and competitiveness ~~of these industries in the long term~~in the long term, by ensuring comprehensive monitoring of the socio-economic situation in the CCS, providing fair and structured support to all CCS and value-chain players, as well as by establishing a European Framework for working conditions in the CCS, in order to tackle any major crises as effectively and as pro-actively as possible in the future;

Amendment 246 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. CUnderlines that the recovery of CCSI must go hand-in-hand with transition towards sustainability of the sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term recovery of the CCSI and to bolster the resilience and competitiveness of these industries in the long term in order to tackle any major crises as effectively as possible in the future and accompany their digital and ecological transition;

Amendment 247 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term recovery of the CCSI and to reinforce these sectors by providing fair and structured support to all CCSIs, as well as bolster the resilience ~~and competitiveness~~ of these ~~industrie~~sectors in the long term in order to tackle any major crises as effectively as possible in the future;

Amendment 248 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term recovery of the CCSI and to bolster the resilience and competitiveness of these industries, in particular of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the long term in order to tackle any major crises as effectively as possible in the future;

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Underlines that any action taken to help the CCSI for their recovery should not only be aimed at the economic recovery but also be used for the improvement of working conditions of artists and cultural professionals, for the up- and reskilling of those workers to engage in the digital era and world and for the investment into the green innovation power of the CCSI, which are a driver of sustainability, early adopters and enablers of disruptive technologies needed to tackle climate change; stresses the challenges imposed by digitisation on the CCSI and therefore the need for constant rethinking and reshaping business models in order to develop market-driven solutions based on big data, cloud computing, ICT, artificial intelligence and the strong role of internet platforms; underlines the importance for European CCIs rightholders of access to and transparency of audience data and content recommendation systems; emphasises therefore the importance of guaranteed funding for digitisation, preservation and online availability of cultural and creative content and our European cultural heritage;

Amendment 25 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

Amendment 250 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to gather and share reliable data on the best practices and methods for distributing aid to the CCS; furthermore calls for exchanging best practices on the most efficient ways to distribute recovery funding in the short and mid-term, in order to ensure maximum coverage of the CCS, so that no artist or cultural worker is left behind;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Highlights the vital importance of culture and the CCS for the digital and the green transition, as well as for the promotion of any societal change, innovation and progress and calls on Member States and the Commission for the inclusion of the CCS in all relevant funding schemes;

Amendment 252 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create new funding programmes to support sustainable, balanced and inclusive mobility and cross-border cooperation, as well as innovate existing funding instruments in this direction;

Amendment 253 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

Amendment 255 #

Monica SEMEDO, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Laurence FARRENG

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Supports the inclusion of artists and cultural workers as beneficiaries of future EU taxation policies; calls for Reduced VAT rates for all cultural goods and services;

Amendment 256 #

15 a. underlines the importance of remuneration for of authors and performers online and offline, specifically through the promotion of collective bargaining;

Amendment 257 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Calls on the Member States to provide the CCS with clear guidelines along with support measures regarding their re-opening, tailored to the different features of each specific sector of the CCS; include compensation schemes of the CCS stakeholders for the empty seats or for possible last-minute cancellations of cultural events, because of the COVID- 19 hygiene measures; include communication campaigns and tools to de-stigmatize the CCS from the blame and fear of being COVID-19 triggers and spread the message to the audiences that the CCS equally ensure the thorough implementation of the perspective hygiene protocols and thus are as safe as all sectors of the economy;

Amendment 258 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Calls on the Council to acknowledge that where Member States fail, the Union must do more to safeguard culture, cultures and cultural diversity in Europe; therefore, calls on the Council to reconsider the allocation of competences in the field of culture and to envisage an expansion of Union competence in this area in the medium term; recognises the role that the Conference on the Future of Europe can potentially play in this context;

Amendment 259 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Calls on the Commission for continuous monitoring of the CCS with regular studies on the Situation of the Artists in order to have accurate, reliable, updated and sector-specific data at a European level in order to design solid policy making, as well as have a better mapping of the CCS and be better prepared in case of future crises;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas culture is an ecosystem that not only generates high economic value (representing 4.4 % of EU GDP in terms of total turnover and employing around 7.6 million people), but also has a substantial social impact, contributing to democratic, sustainable, free and inclusive societies and reflecting and strengthening our European diversity, values, history, freedoms and way of lifeonly through a strong European framework for working conditions in the CCSI can we uphold the rights and values enshrined in Article 17 TFEU and Articles 11, 13, 15, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31 and 34 od the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

Amendment 260 #

Monica SEMEDO, Dace MELBĀRDE, Alexis GEORGOULIS, Laurence FARRENG, Romeo FRANZ, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Diana RIBA I GINER, Niklas NIENASS, Łukasz KOHUT, Andrey SLABAKOV, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Welcomes that during the crisis many cultural ecosystems of workers and organisations adapted to new digital distribution formats showing innovative ways of reaching their audience, nevertheless, digital engagement should not replace cultural experiences in person;

Amendment 261 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15 b. Encourages the promotion of the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence so that artists can explore new ways to create and disseminate their work and benefit more from the opportunities that the digital environment offers;

Amendment 262 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15 c. Calls on Member States and the Commission to take measures to promote gender equality in the CCS, in order to tackle obstacles in terms of access, equal payment, representation and visibility, with concrete measures such as concretely supporting more women in decision- making positions;

Amendment 263 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)

15 d. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to take measures to tackle inequalities and increased risk of exclusion in the CCS such as exclusion related to gender, disabilities, ageism, racism and xenophobia, while promoting cultural diversity to tackle the appearing trend towards digital homogeneity;

Amendment 264 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)

15 e. Highlights that the CCS are the first sectors and most severely hit by the pandemic and the last to recover, while given the restrictions in capacity of cultural events and venues due to the hygiene protocols, the recovery for the CCS is expected to be even slower; reiterates that the CCS have a direct and indirect link, contribution and important impact to other sectors of the economy as well as to local communities and calls on Member States and the Commission to take measures to further support the CCS, proportionally equal to other sectors such as tourism, which was found to be less hit by COVID-19;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas culture is an ecosystem that not only ~~generates high economic value (representing 4.4 % of EU GDP in terms of total turnover and employing around 7.6 million people), but also has a substantial~~has a substantial societal and social impact, contributing to democratic, sustainable, free, fair and inclusive societies and reflecting and strengthening our European diversity, values, history, freedoms and way of life, but also generates high economic value (representing 4.4 % of EU GDP in terms of total turnover and employing around 7.6 million people);

Amendment 28 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas it has been conclusively proven that cultural content distributed during the COVID-19 lockdown periods greatly improved the psychological condition of European citizens and prevented a worsening of mental health issues caused by the prolonged isolation;

Amendment 3 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

— whereas in its Resolution of June 7th 2007 on the social status of artists, Parliament already explicitly called on Member States to develop or implement a legal and institutional framework for creative artistic activity through the adoption or application of a number of coherent and comprehensive measures in respect of contracts, social security, sickness insurance, direct and indirect taxation and compliance with European rules;

Amendment 30 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. Whereas the traditional culture and artists must be supported in order to protect cultural heritage;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the development of the European framework for working conditions in the CCSI will require coordination with EU policies on employment, competition, the internal market, social policy, fundamental rights and equality, and copyright, and funding for culture, as well as permanent monitoring of the progress of Member States on improving working conditions in the CCSI and sharing best practices among them;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the development of ~~the~~a multidimensional European framework for working conditions in the CCSI will require coordination with EU policies on ~~competition, the internal market, social policy, fundamental rights and equality, and copyright~~social policy, fundamental rights such as equality and copyright, competition, the internal market, funding for culture, as well as monitoring the progress of Member States on improving working conditions in the CCS and sharing best practices among them;

Amendment 33 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the development of ~~the~~a multidimensional European framework for working conditions in the CCSI will require coordination with EU policies on competition, the internal market, social policy, fundamental rights and equality, ~~and~~ copyright and funding for culture, as well as monitoring the progress of Member States on improving working conditions in the CCS and sharing best practices;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the development of the European framework for working conditions in the CCSI will require coordination with EU policies on competition, the internal market, social policy, fundamental rights and equality, and copyright, fully respecting the fields of competence of the European Union and its Member States;

Amendment 35 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas since Parliament’s call for improvements to the situation of artists in its resolutions of June 2007, noNovember 2016 and September 2020, not much progress has been made and most of ~~its~~their demands remain valid, also in the light of the great differences between support schemes for artists and cultural professionals in different Member States;

Amendment 36 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas since Parliament’s call for improvements to the situation of artists in its resolution of June 2007, no progress has been made ~~and~~, while the situation has aggravated and thus most of its demands remain valid or have become more urgent;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas since Parliament’s call for improvements to the situation of artists in its resolution of June 2007, no progress has been made ~~and~~, moreover, the situation has deteriorated and thus most of its demands ~~remain valid~~have become urgent;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas since Parliament’s call for improvements to the situation of artists in its resolution of June 2007, no progress has been made ~~and~~, moreover, the situation has aggravated and thus most of its demands ~~remain valid~~have become urgent;

Amendment 39 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas the measures taken by Members States to support CCS in the face of the pandemic vary greatly, and thus the gaps between the situations of artists and cultural and creative workers in different Member States have considerably increased;

Amendment 4 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)

— having regard the study of March 2021 carried out by the European Parliament Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies entitled “The Situation of Artist and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union”, PE 652.250;

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has made artists and cultural and creative ~~professional~~workers even more vulnerable, as the loss of earnings for freelancers and non- standard workers, who make up the majority of the CCSI, has been exacerbated by weak or absent national social security schemes and dedicated support measures;

Amendment 41 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has made artists and cultural and creative professionals even more vulnerable, as the loss of earnings for non-standard workers, who make up the majority of the CCSI, has been often exacerbated by weak or absent national social security schemes and dedicated support measures;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has also exposed the pre-existing vulnerabilities of the Cultural and Creative Sectors, including the precarious livelihoods of artists and cultural workers, as well as the tight budgets of many cultural institutions and the insufficient public funding;

Amendment 44 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

G b. whereas the measures taken by Members States to support the CCS in the face of the pandemic vary greatly, and thus the gaps between the situations of artists and cultural professionals in different Member States have considerably increased;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)

G c. whereas, as a consequence of COVID-19, millions of artists, authors, performers, technicians and other employees in the Cultural and Creative Sectors are still without a job and without decent prospects; whereas this situation is not only a catastrophe for art and culture but heavily affects the foundations of our entire society;

Amendment 46 #

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for artists and cultural and creative workers to carry out their ~~jobs and~~activities and to keep their jobs, while it generated uncertainty over future prospects that could cause professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long- lasting effect on the composition and diversity of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people as well as people from vulnerable backgrounds from working in these ~~industrie~~sectors;

Amendment 47 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for artists and cultural and creative workers to carry out their ~~job~~activities and generated uncertainty over future prospects that could cause professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long-lasting effect on the composition and diversity of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people and professionals from vulnerable backgrounds from working in these ~~industrie~~sectors;

Amendment 48 #

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for cultural and creative workers to carry out their jobs and generated uncertainty over future prospects that could cause professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long-lasting effect on the composition of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people from working in these industries and decrease creativity of the European society and economy as a whole.;

Amendment 49 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for cultural and creative workers to carry out their jobs and generated uncertainty over future prospects that ~~could~~are already causeing professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long-lasting effect on the composition and diversity of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people and professionals from vulnerable backgrounds from working in these ~~industrie~~sectors;

Amendment 5 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)

— having regard the briefing of May 2021 carried out by the European Parliament Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies entitled “The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union : Policy Recommendations”, PE 652.252;

Amendment 50 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Helwin PETER

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for the majority of cultural and creative workers to carry out their jobs and generated uncertainty over future prospects that could cause professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long-lasting effect on the composition of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people from working in these industries;

Amendment 51 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. Whereas the gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the workforce has exacerbated the already existing obstacles in terms of access, equal payment, representation and visibility in the CCSI of women, LGBTIQ+, young people, ethnic and geographic minorities, people with vulnerable socio-economic background, and people with disabilities;

Amendment 52 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~the~~many Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support ~~was not available to some~~varied greatly among Member States and was not always suitable for all CCSIs, whereas the support was not available to several categories of cultural workers and artists on account of their particular working status and as such was not sufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions and it increased the gaps between the situation of artists and cultural professionals; whereas collective management organisations have proven a crucial role providing first emergency funds and solidarity schemes from the very start of the pandemic;

Amendment 53 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas most of the Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support was not available to ~~some artist~~or suitable for many financially vulnerable artists and cultural and creative workers on account of their particular working status and ~~was not~~ thus insufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions; whereas this affects the social rights of artists and cultural professionals, who have the right to be fairly financially compensated for their work, and the protection of a diversity of cultural expressions;

Amendment 54 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas most of the Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support was not a~~vailable to some artists on account of their particular~~lways suitable for all CCS, or even not accessible at all to the most financially vulnerable artists, cultural and creative workers and freelancers on account of their particular, non-standard, seasonal and precarious working status and was inot sufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions;

Amendment 55 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support was not available to some artists and cultural mediation professions, on account of their particular working status and was not sufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas most of the Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support was not available or not suitable to some artists on account of their particular working status and was not sufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions;

Amendment 57 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas cross-border mobility remains an essential component of artists and cultural workers’ careers; however, most of the current funding instruments supporting mobility are not sufficiently adapted to the specific features of the sectors, such as seasonality and bureaucratic obstacles regarding mutual recognition of artistic education among Member States;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas cross-border mobility remains an essential component of artists and cultural workers' careers, however, most of the current funding instruments supporting mobility do not sufficiently stimulate environmentally and socially sustainable mobility and hinder work-life balance of artists and cultural professionals;

Amendment 59 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas cross-border mobility remains an essential component of artists and cultural workers’ careers; however, most of the current funding instruments supporting mobility do not sufficiently stimulate environmentally and socially sustainable mobility and hinder work-life balance of artists and cultural professionals;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas in its resolution of September 2020 on the cultural recovery of Europe, Parliament underlined the need to improve the working conditions of cultural and creative workers and urged the Commission to establish a European framework for working conditions in the cCultural and cCreative sSectors ~~and~~(CCS), including the cultural and creative industries ~~(CCSI)~~;

Amendment 60 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas large parts of the CCS will not be able to survive, given the lack of funding and delays in supporting measures;

Amendment 61 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Morten LØKKEGAARD

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the Council’s Work Plan for Culture for 2019-2022 makes it a priority to establish an ecosystem supporting artists and cultural and creative professionals and recognises the need for joint action in this field; whereas there is an urgent need for such joint action;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

J a. whereas several definitions of artists and cultural workers coexist in the EU making potential harmonisation challenging,

Amendment 63 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas several Member States have specific legislation in place providing a special status for artists to guarantee them access to social benefits; whereas, however, this legislation varies considerably between the Member States, which can hinder the mutual recognition of the status of artists and c~~ross-border collaboration and mo~~ultural and creative workers, including technicians, backstage and other staff, cross-border collaboration and mobility, and ultimately European cultural diversity and social sustainability;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas several Member States have specific legislation in place providing a special status for artists to guarantee them access to social benefits; whereas, however, this legislation varies considerably between the Member States, which can hinder the mutual recognition of the status of artists and cross-border collaboration and mobility thereby creating barriers to cultural and artistic creation, expression and free movement;

Amendment 65 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas several Member States have specific legislation in place providing a special status for artists to guarantee them access to social benefits; whereas, however, this legislation varies considerably between the Member States, which ~~can~~ hinders the mutual recognition of the status of artists and cultural and creative workers, cross-border collaboration and mobility, and ultimately European cultural diversity;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas funding support for CCSI varies greatly between Member States, in terms of budgets' size, guiding priorities and values, which contributes to further divergence on the sustainability of careers of cultural workers accros countries and hinders inclusivity, sustainability and balance of cross-border collaboration and mobility;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas funding support for CCS varies greatly between Member States, in terms of budgets’ size, guiding priorities and transparency levels, which hinders inclusivity, sustainability and balance of cross-border collaboration and mobility;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

K a. whereas funding support for CCS varies greatly between Member States, in terms of budgets’ size, guiding priorities and values, which hinders inclusivity, sustainability and balance of cross-border collaboration and mobility;

Amendment 69 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas artists ~~tend to have~~and cultural and creative workers tend to have seasonal, non-standard and overall atypical work patterns and often lack proper social security protection, notably in cross-border contexts, which often leads to their exclusion from pension, health protection and unemployment payments;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas in its resolution of September 2020 on the cultural recovery of Europe, Parliament underlined again the need to improve the working conditions of cultural and creative workers and urged the Commission to establish a European framework for working conditions in the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI);

Amendment 70 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas artists ~~tend to have atypical work patterns and often lack proper social security protection, notably in cross-border contexts, which often leads to their exclusion~~and cultural workers tend to engage in atypical work patterns due to the nature of the sector itself and are often subjected to insecure working arrangements impeding their access to full social security protection and excluding them from pension and unemployment payments;

Amendment 71 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas artists and cultural and creative workers tend to have atypical work patterns and often lack proper social security protection, notably in cross-border contexts, which often leads to their exclusion from pension, social health protection and unemployment payments;

Amendment 72 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas artists and cultural professionals tend to have atypical work patterns and often lack proper social security protection, notably in cross-border contexts, which often leads to their exclusion from pension and unemployment payments;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas artists’ and cultural and creative workers' remuneration often comes from different sources such as contracts, royalties, grants and subsidies, which renders their income highly unpredictable, leaves them in precarious situations and weakens their resilience;

Amendment 75 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas artists and cultural and creative workers’ remuneration often comes from different sources such as contracts, royalties, grants and subsidies, which renders their income highly unpredictable, leaves them in precarious situations and weakens their resilience;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas artists’ remuneration is often unstable and uncertain, it comes from different sources such as contracts, royalties, grants and subsidies, which renders their income highly unpredictable, leaves them in precarious situations and weakens their resilience;

Amendment 77 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns severely limited the possible revenue streams for the vast majority of artists, performers and cultural workers; whereas ongoing income from authors’ and adjacent rights remained one of the few remaining revenue sources; whereas in many Member States such rights are not properly respected by distribution platforms, who pressure rights holders into relinquishing their rights, sometimes in perpetuity, as part of their contracts, thus severely limiting their ability to sustain themselves from their work;

Amendment 78 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas artists and cultural professionals from minority groups (women, young people, representatives of ethnic and geographic minorities, people with vulnerable socio-economic background, people with disabilities, representatives of LGBTIQ+) have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers, fewer possibilities to develop long-term careers in the sector and are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. whereas artists and cultural and creative workers from vulnerable groups such as women, young people, people with disabilities, representatives of LGBTQIIA+ and people with vulnerable socio-economic background, have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers and are hit the hardest by the consequences of the pandemic and any crisis;

Amendment 8 #

Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas culture has an intrinsic value as an expression of humanity, democracy and civic engagement that can be key to advancing sustainable development;

Amendment 80 #

Monica SEMEDO, Laurence FARRENG, Irena JOVEVA, Ilana CICUREL, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Andrey SLABAKOV, Diana RIBA I GINER, Martina MICHELS, Niyazi KIZILYÜREK

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. Whereas authors, performers and all cultural creators should have access to guaranteed minimum standards of social security, including employment and health insurance and pension funds, so that they can concentrate fully on their artistic process and creativity

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

M a. Whereas the practice of imposing buy-out clauses by dominant or large streaming platforms depriving authors of their royalties, exacerbates the risk in ensuring adequate and proportionate remuneration for creators.

Amendment 82 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~the lack of~~obstacles to collective bargaining for self-employed artists further serves to undermine their position on the labour market and leads to a lack of adequate social protections and a long- term negative effect on their position and security; whereas collective management of authors rights is an important element for the remuneration of creators ensuring their continuous remuneration and they should protect creators from unfair practices of large and dominant media and streaming platform companies;

Amendment 83 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Helwin PETER

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas the lack of collective bargaining for self-employed artists further serves to undermine their position on the labour market and leads to a lack of adequate social protections; whereas collective management of rights represents a major source of income for a majority of creators and artists in Europe;

Amendment 84 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas the lack of collective bargaining for ~~self-employed artists~~artists and cultural and creative workers, including technicians, backstage and other staff, further serves to undermine their position on the labour market and leads to a lack of adequate social protections;

Amendment 85 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas the lack of collective bargaining for self-employed artists and cultural and creative workers further serves to undermine their position on the labour market and leads to a lack of adequate social protections;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas cross-border mobility is an essential part of an artist’s work but is often hampered by bureaucratic procedures, a lack of clear information and myriad administrative rules and requirements across the Member States, notably as regards to social protection and taxation, whereas these barriers to cross- border cultural mobility undermine the principle of free movement and jeopardise the proper functioning of Schengen;

Amendment 87 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas cross-border mobility is an essential part of an artist and cultural and creative workers’s work but is often hampered by bureaucratic procedures, a lack of clear information and myriad administrative rules and requirements across the Member States, notably as regards social protection ~~and taxation~~, taxation, as well as complicated and expensive procedures for the specific transportation needs for artistic fragile equipment;

Amendment 88 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas cross-border mobility is an essential part of an artist’s and cultural and creative worker's work but is often hampered by bureaucratic procedures, a lack of clear information and myriad administrative rules and requirements across the Member States, notably as regards social protection and taxation;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most vital and effective form of financial support for the CCSI, but are often insufficient, difficult to access for those who need them most or inaccessible to some categories of artists and cultural workers due to the nature of the criteria in accessing it;

Amendment 9 #

Andrey SLABAKOV, Ryszard Antoni LEGUTKO, Dace MELBĀRDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas culture and the freedom of the arts contribute significantly to the vibrancy of a society and enable all segments of society to express their identities, contributing to social cohesion and intercultural dialogue paving the way to an ever closer European Union and holds an instrumental role in fostering the digital an green transitions;

Amendment 90 #

Christian EHLER, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Iuliu WINKLER, Željana ZOVKO, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most effective form of financial support for the CCSI, but are often difficult to access due to the lack of an overarching European funding strategy for the sector by the Commission, the diverse sources within the MFF and their lack of mainstreaming;

Amendment 91 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most effective form of financial support for the CCSI, but are often difficult to access, locked behind multiple layers of bureaucracy, which especially discourages young, aspiring artists and creators from applying;

Amendment 92 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most vital and effective form of financial support for the CCSI, but are often difficult to access for those who need them the most, chronically underfinanced, and sometimes biased by political influence;

Amendment 93 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most vital and effective form of financial support for some of the CCSI, but are often ~~difficult to access~~overcomplicated and too difficult to access for those who need them the most;

Amendment 94 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)

P a. whereas freelancers suffer from the highest level of uncertainty with regards to access to both social schemes and to national and EU grants, funds and other financing opportunities;

Amendment 95 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted artists’ and cultural and creative workers’ dependence on short- term financial support and lack of long- term safety nets specifically designed for the CCS, highlighting the need for continuous public and private financial support;

Amendment 96 #

Predrag Fred MATIĆ, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Victor NEGRESCU, Hannes HEIDE, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Łukasz KOHUT, Manuel PIZARRO

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and highlighted artists’ ~~dependence on~~and cultural and creative workers' general dependence on continuous public and private financial support, and in particular their need for short-term financial support in times of crises;

Amendment 97 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

Q. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted artists’ dependence on public and private short-term financial support and mid-term project based support and this has displayed the overall structural difficulties in the sector;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Q a. Whereas, in light of the consequences of the pandemic, a whole generation of young artists and cultural and creative workers are struggling to develop as members of our societies, due to the obstacles for enrolling in higher art education and entering cultural employment;

Amendment 99 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Q a. whereas, in light of the consequences of the pandemic, a whole generation of young artists and cultural workers will struggle to find their place in our societies, both enrolling in higher art education and entering cultural employment;

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Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the CCSI mainly comprise of micro, small and medium-sized ~~enterprises (SMEs) and self-employed entrepreneurs, who~~organisations and enterprises with restricted access to financial markets, as well as self-employed artists, cultural workers, freelance professionals and entrepreneurs, who are more likely to work part-time and often draw on irregular and mixed incomes from different sources;

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas artists ~~tend to have atypical work patterns and often lack proper social security protection, notably in cross-border contexts, which often leads to their exclusion from pension~~and cultural and creative workers tend to engage in atypical work patterns due to the nature of the sector itself and are often subjected to insecure working arrangements impeding their access to full social security protection and excluding them from pension, health care and unemployment payments;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas artists’ and cultural and creative workers' remuneration is often unstable and uncertain, it comes from different sources such as contracts, royalties, grants and subsidies, which renders their income highly unpredictable, leaves them in precarious situations and weakens their resilience;

Amendment 12 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas the lack of and obstacles to collective bargaining for self-employed artists and cultural and creative workers, further serves to undermine their position on the labour market and leads to a lack of adequate social protections and a long- term negative effect on their position and security; whereas collective management of authors rights represents a major source of income for a majority of creators and artists in Europe, ensuring their continuous remuneration and should also protect them from unfair practices of large and dominant media and streaming platform companies;

Amendment 13 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas cross-border mobility is an essential part of a~~n artist’~~rtists, authors, performers and all cultural creators and cultural workers work but is often hampered by bureaucratic procedures, a lack of clear information and m~~yriad~~any administrative rules and requirements across the Member States, notably as regards to social protection and taxation, as well as complicated and expensive procedures for the specific transportation needs for artistic fragile equipment; whereas these barriers to cross-border cultural mobility undermine the principle of free movement;

Amendment 14 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas public grants are considered the most vital and effective form of financial support for the CCSI, but are often ~~difficult to acces~~insufficient, overly bureaucratic and too difficult to access or inaccessible particularly for marginalized groups and sometimes biased by political influence which discourages especially aspiring artists and creators from applying; furthermore the lack of an overarching European funding strategy for the sector by the Commission, the diverse sources within the MFF and their lack of mainstreaming additionally hinders access to public grants;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas access to finance remains the main challenge ~~for individual artists, who are often ineligible for loans and bank guarantees and are highly dependent on public grants and subsidies;~~ especially for smaller actors in the CCSI, including individual artists, artists collectives, and cultural and creative workers, who are often ineligible for loans and bank guarantees thus increasing the importance of access and availability of public and private grants and subsidies; reiterates the importance of supporting all cultural sectors, including cultural mediation professions, which play a vital role as an interface between the public and the artistic work or heritage, thereby ensuring access to and dissemination of culture to a wide audience;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas many private investors ~~have scaled back their financial support for cultural projects during the crisis~~and public funders have scaled back or completely cancelled their financial support for cultural projects, especially those with a cross-border dimension, during the crisis; whereas this underlines the importance of reliable and constant public funding;

Amendment 17 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

Sa. whereas although the participation of women in the cultural and creative sectors is high, there is still much gender based discrimination, lack of access, gender pay gap, obstacles to representation and visibility. and women rarely occupy key creative roles or decision-making positions in cultural institutions; whereas women artists are often silenced and subject to disproportionate criticism as a result of their work and women and LGBTIQ+ artists are more likely to be targeted by attacks or subjected to restrictions;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)

Sb. whereas artists and cultural professionals from marginalized groups, including women, young people, representatives of racial, ethnic and geographic minorities, people with vulnerable socio-economic background, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ people, have lesser access to artistic and cultural careers, fewer possibilities to develop long-term careers in the sector; whereas the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been especially strong on women and has exacerbated the already existing obstacles in terms of access, equal payment, representation and visibility in the CCSI of those groups;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas freedom of expression and freedom of the arts, as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, are currently under threat in several Member States by state interference and politically driven restrictions and are sometimes hindered by the use of antiterrorism legislation or allegations that artistic works insult religious feelings or national symbols, or are deemed to be offensive or inappropriate, also resulting in cases of self-censorship;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the containment measures taken ~~by the Member States affected the CCSI more than any other sect~~in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have severely undermined the fragile cultural and creative ecosystem, thus endangering the cultural and artistic creation and expression and weakening the contribution of arts and culture on our wellbeing, cultural diversity, democracy and more; whereas the CCSI experienced losses in turnover of over 30 % for 2020 – a cumulative loss of EUR 199 billion – with the music and performing arts sectors experiencing losses of 75 % and 90 % respectively8 ; __________________ 8 Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital T a (new)

Ta. whereas, in light of the consequences of the pandemic, a whole generation of young artists and cultural workers will struggle to find cultural employment or enrol in higher art education as a result of the narrowing of opportunities; whereas artists under 30 are more likely to be unemployed, to accept unpaid work and to be subject to exploitative working conditions such as unpaid salaries and precarious contracts;

Amendment 21 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Urges the Commission and the Member States to recognise the ~~fundamental role of culture for society, the well-being of EU citizens and the economy~~intrinsic value of culture, as well as the fundamental role of culture for society, its progress and our well-being, the economy and inclusiveness, and to translate this recognition into adequate and continuous financial and structural support;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to recognise the European added value of cross-border cooperation and to eliminate all barriers to sustainable and inclusive cross-border mobility in the EU, and with third countries for artists and cultural professionals;

Amendment 23 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ~~provide~~support and provide authors, performers, other creative professionals and workers in the CCSI with clear information and guidelines on mobility opportunities and review and where necessary revise administrative requirements in all Member States, including on visas, taxation, social security and access to training; and recognition of artistic education degrees, VET and academic, with a view on simplifying and unifying access to all aforementioned, as well on Union programmes and funds that can serve their needs, such as Creative Europe, but also those not directly or specifically targeted at the CCSI; calls for specific programmes dedicated to the mobility of young creators and innovators to promote exchanges and innovation in the fields of culture and creativity;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the establishment of mobility information points to provide assistance to artists and ~~recommends that~~cultural professionals and support sustainable mobility; calls on all Member States to establish ~~one~~at least one such mobility and information point to offer free and tailored support to artists and cultural and creative workers; recommends the Commission to provide consistent and more comprehensive information targeted to cultural cross-border workers as well as authors, performers and creators, on mobility through initiatives such as updated toolkits and handbooks;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Encourages greater synergy between the cultural and educational sector and promotes greater participation of artistic and cultural schools and institutions in activities under Erasmus+, and in other actions under EU programmes, both for students and teachers; calls on the Member States to fully include and promote access to art education, VET and academic, as part of a holistic approach for the CCSI recovery and society as a whole; notes the importance of providing access to lifelong learning, upskilling and reskilling and training through, among others, mentoring programmes, as well as the development of EU-wide training material for the transition from education to cultural and creative employment;

Amendment 26 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Highlights that the current pandemic has underlined the importance of the digital sphere and amplified the dependency of artists and users on dominant digital platforms; in this regard highlights the need for more transparency; recalls that for some artists and creators who were mainly dependent on public events, this change in economic paradigm represents a challenge in terms of stability of revenue; is worried about the fact that many artists and creators cannot ensure in this new business model the same amount of revenue as the practice of imposing buy-out clauses by dominant or large streaming platforms deprive authors or their royalties and hinders adequate and proportionate remuneration for creators; asks therefore the Commission to evaluate and to take measures to ensure that revenues are duly and fairly distributed to all creators, artists and right holders;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the Commission’s inception impact assessment and ~~ongoing~~recent public consultation on collective bargaining ~~agreements, which is designed to def~~for self-employed, which is examining the possibility of removineg the scompe ~~of application of EU competition rules in order to remove obstacles and improve working condit~~tition law obstacle to collective bargaining for self-employed and freelancers; urges in this regard that the Commission take the broadest possible approach, in order to ensure access to collective bargaining for all solo-self- employed, including artists and cultural workers; invites the Commissions t~~hrough collective bargaining on behalf of solo self-employed workers in the CCSI~~o further evaluate current state aid rules and their application for the CCSI and the possible needs for adaptation; calls on Member States to acknowledge the right of association for all workers in the CCSI and promote collective bargaining;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. UPoints out that atypical employment (part-time and fixed-duration contracts, temporary work and economically dependent self-employment) is commonplace in the media and culture sector, often leading to precarious working situations for artists and cultural professionals; underlines the urgent need to improve the working conditions in the CCSI; encourages the Member States to utilise upward convergence to establish minimum standards for artists and cultural ~~worker~~professionals in relation to working conditions ~~and social secur~~, fair remuneration and social security while recognizing the special characteristics of the CCSI such as seasonal work and the non-monetized quality of creativity;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the development of ~~the~~a multidimensional European framework for working conditions in the CCSI will require coordination with EU policies on employment, competition, the internal market, social policy, fundamental rights and equality, ~~and~~ copyright, and funding for culture, as well as permanent monitoring of the progress of Member States on improving working conditions in the CCSI and sharing best practices among them while fully respecting the fields of competence of the European Union and its Member States;

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Recommends the creation of a European framework for working conditions in the CCSI; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists;~~ Calls on the Commission to propose a European Status of the Artist setting out a common framework for working conditions and a minimum standards common to all EU countries while fully respecting the responsibilities of Member States and the EU in regards to labour market and cultural policy, through the adoption or application of a number of coherent and comprehensive guidelines with respect, but not exclusively, to contracts, means of collective representation and management, social security, sickness and unemployment insurance, pension schemes , direct and indirect taxation, non-tariff barriers and information asymmetries; welcomes, in this regard, the forthcoming OMC discussions between the Member States on the status of artists as a first step; calls for the establishment of a working group in the framework of the OMC to facilitate best practice sharing between Member States as well as to facilitate the monitoring of progress in relation to the amelioration of the conditions of artists;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges ~~the~~all Member States to fulfil their ~~obligation to defend and respect~~responsibility and obligation to foster and defend artistic freedom in order to uphold the fundamental right to freedom of expression and to ensure that EU citizens can freely enjoy a~~nd consume a~~rtistic creations and participate in culture and urges the Commission to sanction those Member States that fail to comply their obligations; invites the European Commission to develop further research on the topic and prepare a roadmap for achieving better protection of freedom of artistic expression in Europe; calls upon the Member States to jointly establish a structured dialogue amongst artists, legal experts and relevant stakeholders to determine common standards for freedom of artistic expression and develop and implement relevant guidelines;

Amendment 32 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Member States to ~~reconsider~~ensure full access to ~~basic~~ social protection for artists and cultural workers, regardless of their employment status, and including access to unemployment allowance, health care and pensions; urges Member States and the Commission to take specific measures for the different categories of the creative professions to tackle unstable income, unpaid work and job insecurity and safeguard a total minimum standard for their income;

Amendment 33 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on Member States to take due account of the unique situation of artists from marginalised groups in the development of all relevant policies, funding programmes and activities and to remove all obstacles for achieving gender equality in the sector, namely by introducing measures which enable equal access, participations and representation of all cultural workers and artists;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the Member States to einc~~ourage and promote private investment in the CCSI~~rease their support to the CCSI through strengthening the public investment and encouraging private investment in the CCSI as well as public- private partnerships; calls on the Member States to ensure easier access to finance for artists and all cultural creators;

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate access to public grants and loans by reducing administrative burdens at all stages of the application and reporting processes; and ensure transparency; emphasises the necessity to promote synergies between all relevant EU funding schemes with specific amounts dedicated to the cultural and creative sector, like Horizon Europe, Creative Europe, InvestEU, Digital Europe, the Cohesion Policy Funds and the RRF to be exploited in order to better support artists and cultural workers and provide new, accessible and where possible regular funding streams;

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. RStresses the importance of directing an adequate part of economic recovery measures to the CCSI; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to include culture in the national recovery and resilience plans and to earmark at least 2 % of the budget envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to culture with concrete, inclusive and accessible to all measures, leaving no one behind; is alarmed that in some Member States submitted plans appear to earmark a lower percentage or lacks of dedicated funding at all to those sectors; calls on the Commission to publish data on amounts and purpose of funds earmarked in the Plans to ensure transparency and facilitate democratic oversight;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. CHighlights that the CCSI are the first sectors and most severely hit by the pandemic and the last to recover, while given the restrictions in capacity of cultural events and venues, the recovery for the CCSI is expected to be even slower; underlines that the recovery of CCSI must go hand-in-hand with transition towards sustainability of the sector; calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the short-term recovery of the ~~CCSI~~whole cultural ecosystem and to bolster the resilience ~~and~~, competitiveness ~~of these industries in the long term~~and innovation of the CCSI in the long term, and to reinforce these sectors by providing fair and structured support to all, especially the most vulnerable actors, and foster employment opportunities for artists, authors, performers, cultural workers and cultural mediation professionals by supporting cooperation across disciplinary domains, as well as to ensure comprehensive monitoring of the socio- economic situation in the CCSI with the help of the European Framework for working conditions, in order to tackle any major crises as effectively as possible in the future and accompany their digital and green transition;

Amendment 4 #

F. whereas since the Parliament’s call for improvements to the situation of artists in its resolutions of June 2007, noNovember 2016 and September 2020, not much progress has been made and most of ~~its~~their demands remain valid, especially in the light of the great differences between support schemes for artists and cultural professionals in different Member States and the fact that the situation of artists has deteriorated and thus most of its demands have become urgent;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has ~~made artists and cultural and creative professionals even more vulnerable,~~exposed the pre-existing vulnerabilities of the CCSI characterised by intermittence, heterogeneity and instability, fragile livelihoods of artists and cultural workers, as well as the tight budgets of many cultural institutions and the insufficient public funding and has put artists and cultural and creative professionals and workers into even more precarious situations as the loss of earnings for freelancers and non-standard workers, who make up the majority of the CCSI, has been often exacerbated by weak or absent national social security schemes and dedicated support measures;

Amendment 6 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the ongoing impact of the pandemic has made it impossible for the majority of artists and cultural and creative workers to carry out their ~~jobs and~~activities and to keep their jobs, while it generated uncertainty over future prospects that ~~could~~are already causeing professionals to leave the sector, which will have a long-lasting effect on the composition and diversity of the European CCSI as a whole and discourage young people ~~from working in these industries~~as well as people from marginalised groups from working in these sectors and decrease creativity of the European society and economy as a whole;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas ~~the~~many Member States enacted substantial emergency measures to help the CCSI to survive the crisis; whereas, however, this support ~~was not available to some artist~~varied greatly among Member States and was not always suitable for all CCSIs and was sometimes delivered with delays which jeopardise parts of the CCSIs; whereas the support was not available to several categories of cultural workers, artists and cultural mediation professions on account of their particular working status and as such was not sufficient to ensure sustainable working conditions; whereas the late and sometimes insufficient public support lead the sector to have to rely on itself for support, emphasizing the need for functioning support mechanisms to safeguard social rights of artists and cultural professionals and protect diversity of cultural expression;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas several definitions of artists and cultural workers coexist in the EU making potential harmonisation challenging; whereas, many workers in the cultural and creative industries, including but not limited to writers, literary translators, producers, technicians, suffer from uncertainty due to the lack of consistent definition of their status;

Amendment 9 #