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"Madam President, good evening, Commissioner, I was somewhat surprised to hear the announcement that this dossier will, yet again, be delayed, although we do not yet know for how long, because the fact that we have absolutely nothing on the table is, in itself, surprising. We have been discussing this issue since 2005 and, since 2005, we have also had the Commission’s recommendation, which has, in fact, led to major market distortions, as a result of which small-scale rights users in Europe are coming under increasing pressure and facing numerous problems.
We need this proposal and we need it urgently! First of all, we need it urgently because the territoriality problem must be solved. However, we have a difficulty here. The world no longer simply ends at national borders and problems are not solved with small exchange relationships; it goes beyond this. The proposal is also urgent because the rights of artists in relation to collecting societies and rights users need to be strengthened and improved. That is not happening to the same extent in all Member States and in some the situation is desperate. It is also urgent because the European Parliament’s Lévai report has answered all of Parliament’s questions, though the Commission has yet to respond to it, and because, from a global perspective, the increasing market concentration of the US giants at the expense of our European rights users is helping them grab an ever bigger share of market power. This delay is now benefiting the dinosaurs of the market and not the thing that cultural diversity in Europe needs as badly as we need water for life, namely a culture outside the mainstream, which can then fertilise this same mainstream again.
Commissioner, take action, but do not pull a fast-track procedure on us."@en1
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