Translation of "AVMSD " (English → French) :

While newspaper websites remain outside the Directive, standalone parts of newpaper websites which feature audiovisual programme or user-generated videos will be considered as video-sharing platforms for the purpose of the AVMSD.

On 24 April 2013, the Commission presented a consultation paper which aimed at triggering broad public debate on the impact of the current transformation of the audiovisual media landscape. The green paper on ‘Preparing for a Fully Converged Audiovisual World: Growth, Creation and Value’ focused on how future-proof the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) was, but also contained considerations regarding infrastructure, frequencies and funding models of audiovisual content as well as market considerations on the vertical and horizontal integration of the media and ICT industry.

34. Repeats its call on the Commission to review and amend the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and extend its scope to minimum standards for the respect, protection and promotion of the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information, media freedom and pluralism, and to ensure the full application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, of the ECHR and of the related jurisprudence on positive obligations in the field of media, since the directive’s objective is to create an area without internal frontiers for audiovisual media services whilst ensuring at the same time a high level of protection of objectives of gene ...[+++]ral interest, such as putting in place an appropriate legislative and administrative framework to guarantee effective pluralism‘; consequently, calls on the Commission to review and amend the AVMSD in order to ensure - as happens for and on the basis of the model of regulatory authorities in the framework of electronic communications - that the national regulatory authorities are fully independent, impartial and transparent as regards their decision-making processes, the exercise of their duties and powers and the monitoring process, effectively funded to carry out their activities, and have appropriate sanctioning powers to ensure that their decisions are implemented; in the framework of this review, calls on the Commission to institutionalise EU-level cooperation and coordination on the media, for instance by establishing a European regulators’ group for audiovisual media services, and to streamline and strengthen the status and role of the national regulatory authorities provided for in Articles 29 and 30 of the AVMSD;

D. whereas the AVMSD guarantees a free flow of audiovisual media services as an internal market instrument , and respects the right to freedom of expression and access to information while protecting the public interest objectives, including authors’ rights, media freedom, freedom of information and freedom of expression;

C. whereas the AVMSD is based on the principle of technological neutrality and thus covers all services with audiovisual content irrespective of the technology used to deliver it, guaranteeing a level playing field for all audiovisual media service providers;

A. whereas the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the backbone of EU media regulation;