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"Dear Luckas, we shall miss you and we shall miss your work to promote the circulation of films in Europe. I would like to thank you for everything that you have done over the last three years and to echo the comments made by the previous speakers.
I shall just make a few comments on the circulation of films. Not only will the review of the Television without Frontiers Directive not take place, but what is more, at the same time, other parties are proposing to set up a television channel in Europe for broadcasting films. I would like to know the Commission’s thoughts on the initiative taken – amongst others – by Belgium in setting up this channel. Once again, I am wondering how to define concepts such as the ‘European work’.
We were promised that this would be discussed together with the review of the Television without Frontiers Directive. The debate will not take place since the directive is not being reviewed. The question remains, however. Given that there are so many audiovisual broadcasting channels, there is also the problem of frontiers for audiovisual works. Is a television show a piece of audiovisual work and how is it circulated? Is it broadcast on a European cinema television channel? I feel that all these questions are sufficiently important to merit an answer from us. Basically, the question I ask time and time again is that regarding the cultural content of audiovisual and cinematographic industrial production. How will we protect the cultural content?
I have a second question to put to the Commission. I believe that the Commission is open to the idea of creating an international instrument that works in parallel with the WTO and is dedicated to cultural issues. We know that a group of experts from France and Quebec carried out a feasibility study on this instrument. Things are therefore taking on a slightly more concrete form. This is a subject that closely concerns us, as Members of the European Parliament, and I would like to open up the debate on this. I think that Mrs Reding and Mr Lamy have, on several occasions, boldly echoed this proposal. I would therefore like, in the interests of cultural heritage, some clarification on this point."@en1
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