Translation of "Working Party on Mass Media and Culture " (English → French) :

setting up a national working party on media policy cooperation.

- setting up a national working party on media policy cooperation.

WP 12: "Transfers of personal data to third countries: applying Articles 25 and 26 of the EU data protection directive", working document adopted by the Working Party on 24 July 1998, available, in the web-working document site "europa.eu.int/comm/internal_markt/en/media.dataprot/wpdocs/wp12/en" hosted by the European Commission.

At its first meeting, the Forum will set up working parties on topics such as: - Implications for the work organization and the methods - Access to information and networks - Social life in the "virtual community" - Access to public services: "electronic democracy" - Cultural and linguistic diversity: opportunities and challenges - Protection of the individual - Education - Sustainable developpment The Forum will choose from among its members a Chairman, two Vice-Chairmen and the Chairmen of t ...[+++]he working parties.

Thus it is expected that an important impetus will be provided to private sector led initiatives for the creation of European information infrastructures; INVITES the Member States to supply the necessary impulse to launch general interest applications in cooperation with the private sector and with regional and local authorities; NOTES the initiatives the Commission intends to take in order - to give the necessary impetus to contribute in the context of existing activities to specific projects such as those mentioned in the report of the BANGEMANN group; - to encourage the implementation of an environment stimulating new forms of private sector led partnerships, involving where appropriate Member States, regions and towns, for general i ...[+++]nterest applications; - to present to the Parliament and the Council a Communication further to the Green Paper on media pluralism; NOTES that the Commission is taking account of social and cultural aspects of the information society and welcomes its intention to give priority, in parallel with and complementary to the process of liberalization, to initiatives in the following areas: employment and work environment as well as social, cultural and language aspects; INVITES the Commission and the Member States to stimulate public debate on the ways to maximize the benefits of the information society; VI CALLS UPON all competent Council compositions to pursue where necessary the areas of applications agreed to in general by the European Council and to adopt as soon as possible the necessary regulatory and legal measures; WELCOMES the holding of the forthcoming G7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society and INVITES the Commission to do the necessary preparatory work in cooperation with the Member States; INVITES THE COMMISSION to submit a report in time to enable the European Council in Essen (9 and 10 December 1994) to assess the progress made".

The next few months will be marked by: - attainment of the objective of removing controls at frontiers, by means of adjustments to the infrastructure and adoption, by the Member States, of the administrative measures needed to relocate the current controls; - finalization of the legislative work in progress to back up the removal of all physical frontier controls; this applies, in particular, to shipments of waste, controls on exports of goods of cultural value and of strategic goods, the free movement of certain agricultural produc ...[+++]ts (bananas) and the free movement of pet animals; - the follow-up to the conclusions of the Sutherland working party, which will report to the Commission in October on the priorities for management of the single market after 1992.