TOPIC: Freedom of Media in Europe
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
To what extent does the Council Directive 2007/65/EC also known as Audiovisual Media Services Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council improve freedom of expression and media in the European community?
POLICY:
2007/65/EC Of The European Parliament and of the Council
OUTLINE:
DIRECTIVE 2007/65/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 11 December 2007 was an amendment of Council Directive 89/552/EEC on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities. Audiovisual media are presently perhaps the most fluid field of regulation.
Not only because due to the widespread of digital technologies, the media trend has been profoundly changed but also because these changes are by default spilling over to other spheres of life and of regulation. The unevenly distributed, numerous and often unanticipated effects of digital media, some of which will be dealt with in this article, inevitably make the quest for appropriate regulatory design exigent. In the phase between media and cultural policy-making, which set our analytical backdrop here, these difficulties are
augmented by national sovereignty susceptibilities and strong globalization pressures that often cut in divergent directions. The purpose of the present article is however not to explore these complex and dynamic linkages in the abstract but rather in a pragmatic manner, by looking at the recent European Community (EC) Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS). It is precisely this striven for balance that forms the heart of our enquiry. We examine in particular whether and how the modifications to the EC audiovisual media regime may influence cultural diversity in European media and contemplate whether in this regard the AVMS appropriately safeguards the balance between economic and other public interests.
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