Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-12-Speech-2-321"
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"Mr President, the Commissioner will also know there was unanimous consensus in Council on the common position. I hope you are going to take as robust a position on Mr Zimmerling's amendments as you did on the Lehne report.
It is also an issue about the vitality and competitiveness of the European art market. If it was centred on Berlin I am sure that Mr Zimmerling would argue quite differently on transposition times and thresholds. Without an international
the fact is that the European art market will go offshore. There is evidence to prove that. I too, like Mrs Echerer, must listen to artists. They are divided. There is
. They are divided. It is arrogant of Mr Zimmerling to dismiss the views of people for whom we claim to legislate in this Parliament. We legislate in their interests. We should listen to their views as well.
We can also see that the
does not actually advantage many artists. In Germany, for example, in 1998, of 7 000 artists who transferred their rights, only 274 actually got any money from it and 40% of the
was taken up in costs in levying the sum. So there are some problems with how it currently operates.
I want to use this opportunity to register my dismay that the Commission has failed to provide any analysis or evaluation of the economic impact of
. It is far too important a piece of legislation for it not to have done this work. I still fail to understand how the Commission reached the arbitrary threshold of EUR 1 000 with no scientific evidence to back that up. Therefore I must plead for a long transition period to open serious negotiations on an international
without which we will lose the European art market, wherever it is located, whether it be Paris, Berlin or London. I do not believe artists will gain from that either."@en1
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"K�nstler gegen Folgerecht"1
"droit de suite,"1
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