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The questions that have been raised by Mr Paasilinna cannot be the subject of an initiative of the Commission based on the fundamental freedoms of the internal market, provided for in Articles 43 and 49 of the Treaty, because the purpose of those provisions is to regulate situations with a cross-border element. They cannot be used to adjust purely internal situations within Member States.
As mentioned, existing Community instruments foreseen by the Treaty have the aim of ensuring a certain equilibrium between economic operators. They may therefore directly affect the media, but as an economic activity. These instruments do not affect the media as an information conduit to citizens, or they do so only very indirectly. For example, the Merger Regulation assigns the task to the Commission to establish whether or not media concentrations with a Community dimension are compatible with the common market. The Merger Regulation thereby enables the Commission to ensure competitive medium markets and only indirectly to protect media pluralism.
It should furthermore be recalled that the Commission supports the inclusion in the draft Constitutional Treaty of Article 11(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which establishes the principle of respect by the Union of the freedom and pluralism of the media. However, as we all know, that is not yet law."@en1
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