Translation of "Ligne de côte marine bien définie " (French → English) :

71. Appreciates the Commission’s initiative to analyse the role of online platforms in the Digital Economy as part of the Digital Single Market Strategy, as it will affect several upcoming legislative proposals; believes that the analysis should serve to identify confirmed and well-defined problems within specific business areas and possible gaps in terms of consumer protection, and to distinguish between online services and online service providers; emphasises that platforms dealing with cultural goods, especially audiovisual media, have to be treated in a specific manner ...[+++]that respects the UNESCO convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions;

23. Believes that discussions should be launched by the Commission and evidence-based analyses should be carried out on whether all actors in the value chain, including online intermediaries, online platforms, content and service providers, and also offline intermediaries such as resellers and retailers, should take reasonable and adequate measures against illegal content, counterfeit goods and intellectual property rights infringements on a commercial scale, while safeguarding the ability of end-users to access and distribute information or run applications and services of their choice; stresses the need to give co ...[+++]nsideration to clarifying the role of intermediaries, in particular regarding the fight against intellectual property infringements, following a thorough, targeted and evidence-based analysis and taking into account all relevant public consultations by the Commission; stresses that internet service providers and online intermediaries should, in any case, have strictly specified obligations and should not play the role assigned to the courts in order to avoid any privatisation of law enforcement; calls on the Commission to conduct an evaluation study on the effectiveness of the judicial blocking of websites and of notice and take-down systems;

Moreover, the first compatibility condition established by the 2014 Aviation Guidelines, according to which operating aid can be considered compatible if it contributes to a well-defined objective of common interest in the form of increasing the mobility of citizens of the Union and connectivity of the regions or facilitates regional development, is clearly not met if the operating aid at issue is aimed at ensuring the functioning of an airport that has been built exclusively with investment aid that is incompatible with the internal market.

(l) The Guidelines should include the right to conscientious objection to military service as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; the EU should call on states with a system of compulsory military service to allow for an alternative service of a non-combatant or civilian character, in the public interest and not of a punitive nature, and to refrain from punishing, including through prison sentences, conscientious objectors for failure to perform military service; the Guidelines should also include the right to well-defined conscientious objection as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought, cons ...[+++]cience and religion in relation to other morally sensitive matters;