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Major changes to European culture that will happen as a result of digital technology are welcome. However, continued good public service broadcasting is essential.
Guaranteed access to public service and public interest content will be a vital guarantor of universality. It will also be a key driver of digital take-up, extending its appeal. For public services to be universally available it is necessary to ensure that whichever digital system people may use they can be guaranteed access to the information that is essential to a well-informed society.
Public interest considerations suggest there will be a need for access to this content through all major delivery platforms, whatever access regime is finally decided upon. "Must access" rules will be needed to ensure universal availability to public service content on other major distribution systems, and to memory in receivers where that forms a significant gateway. "Due prominence" rules will ensure that public service content and channels can be easily found on proprietary electronic programme guides.
Digital TV is the only convergent technology without basic interoperability. Regulatory measures will be required to promote interoperability between the networks and devices that will be used to access digital TV and interactive services. Interoperability can be achieved through declaration and licensing of those key standards, interfaces and authoring tools necessary to reach the end user. This will promote interoperability without undermining innovation. Third parties will need access to this information at the same time as the gateway owners' own services.
It is important to get the right balance between the EU and Member State levels. It is right that the regulatory framework for infrastructure should be established at EU level and implemented nationally. National regulatory authorities will need the freedom to apply infrastructure regulation according to specific national circumstances, but be ready to justify this at the EU level. Content issues will affect infrastructure regulation. Where this occurs, the Member State should be free to set its own priorities.
As we are already in a world of television without frontiers, it is important in the context of Ireland that public service broadcasting, both North and South, recognises all the cultural divisions that have agreed to parity of esteem under the Good Friday agreement, which had such a strong democratic mandate."@en1
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