Translation of "Distribution control unit " (English → French) :

Given that access to, and the distribution of, pornographic material are not controlled by time and place, I welcome the timely suggestion to set up, at European level, a separate unit for combating child pornography and prostitution and I suggest that Member States and the Commission provide financial support for information and awareness campaigns.

A United Nations monitoring body wants the Canadian government to close Vancouver's safe injection site and end the distribution of safe crack kits in Toronto, Ottawa and on Vancouver Island.The distribution of drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users in Ottawa and Toronto, as well as the presence of drug injection sites, is also in violation of the international drug control treaties, to which Canada is a party.

We support what we believe to be the courageous initiatives of certain Member States – and I point in particular to the Netherlands and the United Kingdom – which have launched, within the Council, these ideas on national control declarations which may not be followed by other Member States, since their territorial distribution and organisation is different.

The vertical integration that they are competing against is someone who controls the production, controls the broadcasting, and controls the distribution and even the telephone or the telecom unit, because many Canadians are viewing online and through their mobile devices.

By way of example, the Commission points out that: - an average 6O% of cine-film distribution in Europe is controlled by companies of American origin; - 40% of the European video-cassette distribution circuits are in the hands of non-European groups; - in 1988, Europe purchased 7OO million dollars' worth of television programmes, almost all of it fiction, from the United States; - in 1989, of some 11 OOO hours of cartoon programmes screened by TV channels in the Community, 6O% came from Japan, whilst European production accounted f ...[+++]or only .O hours!

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