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Madam President, I can only repeat what I have already stressed: the Commission is the guardian of the Treaties. Consequently, it has used the articles of the Treaties and the Amsterdam protocol as a basis to authorise exceptions with regard to State aid for public service broadcasting. It is therefore the Member States that define, firstly, the purpose and obligations of their public services and, secondly, the way in which these obligations are funded, by licence fees or by advertising. The Commission simply checks whether what the Member States have laid down is carried out in practice.
In 2001, Commissioner Monti and I therefore published - with the aim of answering any questions that could be raised regarding the interpretation of these articles of the Treaty and of the Amsterdam protocol - a communication, which the European Parliament knows well, specifying all these rules. I can therefore reassure the honourable Member, because both the Commission and Parliament are committed to the dual system and the public broadcasters are absolutely protected, both by the Treaties and by the rules based on them."@en1
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