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Madam President, the importance of public service broadcasting and the competence of the Member States to define, organise and provide funding mechanisms for this public service are guaranteed by Article 86(2) of the Treaty and by the Amsterdam protocol. As indicated in the Commission communication of 2001 on State aid, however, the role of private operators must not be neglected, as they contribute to ensuring pluralism, to enriching the political and cultural debate and to broadening the choice of programmes. We therefore very clearly recognise the dual system, which characterises the European audiovisual industry and which has a beneficial effect on the media as a whole.
With regard to the public sector at present, it is up to the Member States to organise the funding of this sector. This funding may come entirely from public funds, in whatever form, and, if appropriate, in the form of a licence fee, as in the example put forward by the honourable Member. This funding may also be mixed and consist partly of revenue from the sale of advertising space. There is no objection to the choice of one or other of these systems. However, the Commission must ensure that the rules of the Treaty are complied with, particularly those on State aid as interpreted in the communication of 2001.
Public funding must therefore only be used to achieve the public-service mission and must not exceed what is necessary in this regard: that is the rule of proportionality. Public-service missions must be defined clearly and precisely and there must be a separation of accounts when public-sector operators become involved in commercial activities: that is the rule of transparency. It is therefore not up to the Commission to lay down other rules that would limit the Member States’ room for manoeuvre in this eminently cultural field."@en1
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