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"As Members of Parliament know, the observatory is a public institution with the task of collecting economic and legal information from various international sources and to upgrade it by assembling it in an organised and comprehensive way.
The observatory disseminates such information via periodical publications as has been discussed in the Chamber. These tasks are fulfilled effectively by the observatory and the return on our participation in terms of support for the audiovisual industry and the Union is positive. Moreover, I would like to stress that were Community participation in the observatory to be discontinued, the Commission would be obliged to collect the same information from different sources – in most cases on a commercial basis. This would not only be time-consuming but certainly more expensive than the amounts envisaged for the yearly contributions.
I understand that consultation of the observatory publications, notably the year book and the legal newsletter, Iris, is common practice in the services of the Commission dealing with audiovisual issues. Moreover, the observatory’s advice has been sought on several occasions and in several areas in the context of on-going contacts when specific information was needed. I wish to mention the fields of employment, film financing schemes, international trade statistics, statistical methodologies, market trends and so forth.
For the future the Commission envisages extending the activities carried out by the observatory, notably in two specific areas: implementing a statistical information structure under Eurostat and preparing for the GATT 2000 negotiations. The active participation of the Commission for the next five years in the observatory will allow it to optimise the complementarity of the tasks carried out by Eurostat and the observatory itself. The aim is to create, at the end of a five-year period, a harmonised official EU set of statistics for the audiovisual sector. I would like to stress that the activities of the observatory and Eurostat do not overlap in terms of period covered, geographical scope or output and could be usefully coordinated in order to achieve a clear view of the complex reality in the audiovisual sector. The Commission services are best placed to carry out this task.
With your understanding, Mr President, I do not intend to go into Parliament’s amendments in detail, but I am happy to tell you that the Commission shares the concern about the need for small and medium-sized enterprises to be successful and so accepts the amendment relating to such enterprises.
Concerning the other two amendments: the Commission understands Parliament’s concerns but cannot accept the amendments as they are drafted. Nevertheless, the Commission will do its utmost to ensure that the observatory work is widely accessible."@en1
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