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Last week, the Commission presented its communication ‘i2010: a European Information Society for growth and employment’. In this communication, the Commission states that, by the end of 2005, it will propose a revision of the ‘Television Without Frontiers’ directive to modernise the rules on audiovisual media services, and that is what the honourable Member is referring to.
Thanks to the minimal coordination provisions it contains, this text strengthens the competitiveness of the European audiovisual media industry. Nevertheless, the directive contains no specific rights or obligations for public service broadcasters and there are no plans, at least for the moment, to introduce, as part of the revision process, measures dealing with the use of communication methods and technology by public service broadcasters.
As in the case of the question that I have just answered, I would remind you that it is very important for Member States to be responsible for defining the purpose of their public services and to determine how those services have to be funded so that they can fulfil their mission, as this field still comes under the subsidiarity principle in accordance with the Commission communication of 2001 on State aid and with the rules of the Treaty, including the Amsterdam protocol. However, we also state in that communication – this is also an important point – that the public service may include services that are not programmes in the traditional sense of the word: for example, online information services, insofar, of course, as these services aim to meet the same democratic, social and cultural needs as programmes as such."@en1
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