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". – Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking Mrs Thors for her excellent work. The Commission welcomes this report. It raises the need for a balanced approach to regulation. We need to balance two things: first, commercial freedom and incentives to invest and, second, protection of defined public interests in a focused and proportional way. The new regulatory framework will provide regulators with much greater flexibility to achieve this balance.
The directives that the Commission will propose this month take account of the three key points raised in Mrs Thors' report. First, the need to update
regulations for digital television. The new framework will allow regulators to address new gateways such as Applications Programme Interface. Second, the report supports limiting "must carry" privileges to channels with a public service remit, as defined in Protocol 32 of the Treaty. The report also points out that there should be negotiation that balances remuneration for operators with the value of public service channels to operators. The Commission will address these issues in its upcoming legislative proposals. Third, the need for increased interoperability between different television platforms.
More specifically, the report singles out two key elements. First, the need for interoperability wherever possible and access rules where proprietary standards contribute to significant market power; and, second, the need to define a new, open decoder architecture, the multimedia home platform.
The Commission prefers an industry-led approach rather than imposing standards. We have reserve powers to intervene if the market actors cannot agree. However, the market is developing open standards. In dynamic markets the standardisation process lags behind the leading edge of technology. The use of open standards reduces both regulation and the number of competition cases. The report signals this clear message to the market place very strongly. I fully support this.
The report also raises several issues which lie on the content side and are, therefore, outside the scope of the new framework for electronic communications. As far as possible, we must separate the network and content regulation.
The reception of encrypted digital television services across borders raises several difficult issues. First, there is enough ill treatment of copyright: pay-TV services only buy the rights for a particular Member State. Even digital free-to-air services are being encrypted. This creates tensions with single market principles for pay-TV services. Differing approaches to content regulation may also play a role. But here I need to reflect on this with my colleagues, Mrs Reding and Mr Bolkestein, who have particular competence in this field."@en1
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