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"Madam President, I would like to thank the rapporteurs, shadows, and also to the Committee secretariats for all the work on this dossier. I know it has not been an easy task, but I think we have a good compromise in front of us. I thank the rapporteur and others for taking on so much from the opinion of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).
I think Commissioner Oettinger is right about the balance that we need to strike between the new digital world that we exist within and the rights of the creators of content. This is the challenge if we want to make our digital single market work effectively. So the challenge is there, and we will meet it.
The key points I wanted to raise are on e-book access, the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty, and text and data mining. There are still too many barriers to libraries being able to provide books in electronic format, and I hope that we will see concrete proposals from the Commission later this year to try to address some of these problematic issues. Publishers and libraries have been working together to seek solutions, and these discussions must continue. Leading on from this, the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty is no further forward than when we last discussed this in this House. The book famine, which visually impaired and blind people still face, is a clear breach of human rights. Let us remind ourselves that less than 5% of the books published in Europe are available in a format that is accessible. I urge Member States to take action and ratify this treaty.
Finally, on text and data mining, which the Commissioner just touched upon in his speech: currently in the UK, as you know, we have got an exemption for non-commercial purposes under the current rules. The impact this is having on research is phenomenal. What would have taken years can now literally take hours, and for scientific discoveries and historical analysis the benefits are endless. I hope that we will see a new exemption for text and data mining at EU level and an assessment about the extension of this for commercial purposes too."@en1
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