Traduction de «sprt on media issues » (Anglais → Français) :

15. Stresses that attention must be paid to the level of concentration of media ownership in the Member States, while underlining that the concept of media pluralism covers a wider spectrum of issues, such as prohibition of censorship, protection of sources and whistleblowers, issues related to pressure from political actors and market forces, transparency, working conditions of journalists, media control authorities, cultural diversity, the development of new technologies, unrestricted access to information and communication, uncenso ...[+++]red access to the internet, and the digital divide; believes that media ownership and management should be transparent and not concentrated; stresses that concentration of ownership jeopardises pluralism and cultural diversity and leads to uniformity of media content;

11. Stresses that sufficient attention must be paid to the level of concentration of media ownership in Member States; but underlines that the concept of media pluralism cannot be limited to this issue, but also includes prohibition of censorship, protection of sources and whistleblowers, issues related to pressure from political actors and market forces, transparency, working conditions of journalists, media control authorities, cultural diversity, the development of new technologies, unrestricted access to information and communica ...[+++]tion, uncensored access to the Internet and the digital divide;

31. Recalls that a vigorous, professional and independent media constitute an essential element of a democratic system; calls on the authorities to speed up the implementation of the Media Strategy adopted in October 2011 and its accompanying action plans; is deeply concerned about the continued violence and threats against journalists, particularly those investigating corruption and organised crime; underlines the utmost importance of solving the cases of murdered journalists from the 1990s and 2000s, as evidence of the new government’s commitment to ensure the rule of law and freedom of the media; is concerned about the attempts to ...[+++] control and interfere in the media sector, and calls on the authorities to ensure its independence from political pressure in order to provide journalists with a safe environment where they can conduct their work effectively and without self-censorship; underlines the need to take steps against concentration of media ownership and lack of media transparency, as well as to ensure equal access to the advertising market - hitherto dominated by a handful of economic and political actors - including the release of public funds for purposes of advertising and promotion; calls on journalists to respect the Code of Ethics; notes that the level of internet access remains low, recognises the importance of the internet for media freedom, and urges the authorities to maximise their efforts in this field; notes that media reporting during the election campaign lacked the necessary analytical element, which points to the need to clarify the issue of media ownership; welcomes the fact that the Strategy respects the constitutional rights regarding minority language media, and stresses that the right to operate regional public radio and television should also apply within Vojvodina;

N. whereas the European Parliament has repeatedly called on the Commission, through several resolutions, to promote actions to guarantee pluralism and address the problem of media concentration, to issue an urgent communication on the protection of pluralism of the media and media concentration in Member States and to urgently complete the regulatory framework with a proposal for a directive on the same issues based on the legal basis that the Treaties clearly provide,

J. whereas, in spite of the repeated calls by the European Parliament for a directive on information pluralism and media concentration, the Commission did not include these issues in the scope of the revision of the 'TV without Frontiers' Directive, but committed itself to define a specific three-step roadmap on this issue, comprising the drafting of a working document (issued in 2007), the definition of indicators for the level of ...[+++] pluralism (contained in an independent study, issued in July 2009) and a proposal for a communication on these indicators (scheduled only for 2010),

On 20 December 2007 the Commission adopted a Communication ‘A European approach to medial literacy in the digital environment’ focussing on media literacy for commercial communication covering issues related to advertising, media literacy for audiovisual works which is in part about raising awareness of European film and enhancing creativity skills and media literacy for online which, for example would give citizens a better knowle ...[+++]dge of how Internet search engines work.