15 April 2004 A5-0230/193 AMDMT 193 Recital G 16 (new) G16. whereas the above-mentioned documents contribute greatly to facilitating the development of a competitive and pluralist knowledge-based society in accordance with the Lisbon objectives, AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/193
15 April 2004 A5-0230/194 AMDMT 194 Recital G 17 (new) G17. whereas a precise definition of the public service mission, defined by the Member States, in accordance with the criteria laid down in the Protocol and Communication on the funding of public service broadcasting, encouraging a pro-competitive approach and restricting the funding of the public service to offsetting the net costs arising from the performance of that mission, will facilitate access to the broadcasting market for new operators and release new resources, which were used in the past in dual funding systems which permitted anti-competitive practices through cross-financing; AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/194
15 April 2004 A5-0230/195 AMDMT 195 Recital G 18 (new) G18. Whereas: (a) in the two months January and February 2004 alone, 89% of the Italian public, or 49 744 000 individuals 1, watched broadcasts well-known to be sympathetic to the opposition and definitely not government-friendly 2, 1 Fonte Auditel (an independent company compiling audience statistics, owned jointly (33% holding) by the public television company (RAI); private broadcasters (national networks and local TV stations); companies investing in advertising (UPA); and with media agencies and centres (ASSOCOMUNICAZIONE, UNICOM). 2 The following programmes were monitored: RAI3 Primo piano, Ballarò, L'elmo di Scipio; LA7 L'infedele. AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/195
15 April 2004 A5-0230/196 AMDMT 196 Recital G 19 (new) G19. (b) 83% of the Italian public is exposed (i.e. by watching TV, reading a daily newspapers or periodical, listening to the radio) to at least one independent information source from RAI or Mediaset/Fininvest, AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/196
15 April 2004 A5-0230/197 AMDMT 197 Recital G 20 (new) G20. (c) 82.8% of the Italian public is exposed to at least one media source whose political slant is sympathetic to the opposition (Gruppo Expresso, Gruppo RCS, L'Unità, Il Manifesto), AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/197
15 April 2004 A5-0230/198 AMDMT 198 Paragraph 1c (new) 1c. Points out that the EU has a political and moral obligation, under Article 6(3) of the EU Treaty, which says that 'the Union shall respect the national identities of its Members States', to ensure respect for the general principles established to protect the internal market contained in the Treaty and set out in the Green Paper on services of general interest, with due regard for the cultural, political and social characteristics of the individual Member States; AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/198
15 April 2004 A5-0230/199 AMDMT 199 Paragraph 2a (new) 2a. Points out that the European Union, when implementing the Treaty provisions providing for the creation of a common market by removing barriers to the free movement of services, has already taken steps in Directive 89/552/EEC to establish a regulatory framework for harmonising provisions in the audiovisual sector, setting out a series of minimum provisions to guarantee the free movement of programmes, explicitly aimed at not undermining the competences of the States and leaving individual Member States full independence in drawing up internal provisions for transposition and the need to ensure external and internal pluralism, in accordance with their guaranteed constitutional rights; AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/199
15 April 2004 A5-0230/200 AMDMT 200 by Francesco Fiori, Antonio Tajani, Giacomo Santini and Guido Podestà, on behalf of the PPE- Paragraph 3a (new) 3a. Points out that the audiovisual and media sector is crucial to economic development and achievement of the Lisbon agenda, and for creating a pro-competitive environment in the EU's ITC sector, through the establishment of industrial groups capable of taking on the competition, which is an inevitable consequence of market liberalisation, with major multimedia groups established in non-member countries; AM\532698.doc PE 344.597/200