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Subject: The EU is acting (or at least thinking about it)

Author:
Lew

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Date Posted: 07:01:21 01/08/04 Thu

It would seem from the following report that the EU are actually taking an interest in crossborder broadcasting.

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/rpt/2002/com2002_0430en01.pdf

If you don't feel like ploughing through the entire report, this is the passage that caught my eye:

"The Commission is particularly concerned about the difficulties which citizens encounter in
trying to access satellite channels transmitted outside the Member State in which they are
resident. This situation not only goes against the grain of a fundamental principle embodied in
Directive 93/83/EEC, but also means that the freedom of movement of goods and services
cannot be fully exercised, that viewers' expectations cannot be met, and that cultural and
economic opportunities introduced by the internal market cannot be exploited. The
Commission will therefore conduct a study - observing the protection of rightholders - into
possible ways of meeting citizens' expectations, which are set to continue rising in step with
increased mobility and the development of new technologies to which the general public has
access in the European Union. The Commission therefore intends to start work, without
delay, in close collaboration with the various interested parties and the representatives
of the competent national authorities, thereby fostering a thorough, constructive and
necessary debate on a clearly-defined objective whose achievement poses undeniable
difficulties."

This is the man at the EU to write to:

Frits Bolkestein
European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union
European Commission
B - 1049 Brussels (Belgium)
Frits.Bolkestein@cec.eu.int.

This is the page of his department INTERNAL MARKET
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/media/index_en.htm

The key would seem to be a common copyright policy for the EU.

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Re: The EU is acting (or at least thinking about it)	Chris	11:21:37 01/08/04 Thu
It's not really a pressure the BBC thing -- Lew, 20:23:43 01/08/04 Thu