Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-03-Speech-3-213"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-10-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Television without frontiers2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011003.7.3-213"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-03-Speech-3-2142
lpv:speaker	lp:Astrid Thors2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Svenska folkpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, while I would like, on behalf of the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, to thank the rapporteur for this report, I would also like to echo the previous speaker in drawing attention to the future. The Commission’s report states that the next report on the directive must also address issues which are important to the consumer, such as operational compatibility, conditional access and how the transition to digital broadcast technology will take place, but the world may already have moved on by the time the next report is drawn up. I would like to remind everyone that, when debating the ‘telecom package’, Parliament approved by a large majority the fact that we should demand an open, common standard for TV transmitters and receivers, the only one so far approved in Europe and known as the MHP standard. This standard would guarantee a situation in which all consumers knew what applied and one in which they had the confidence to acquire the necessary equipment. It would also guarantee that vertically divided markets did not arise. A large majority of Parliament backed this view. But what has happened since then? The Commission does not support this decision, and the Council has entirely ignored the issue, which I believe is of immense importance if we are to achieve what is known as Digital Update and promote digital technology in all TV markets. I therefore hope that the Commission in its entirety can start to support the demands which have been made by Parliament and which we in the ELDR Group would like to clarify a little. The rapporteur has already pointed out this requirement, but I would like to repeat it in order to make it clear to all the services of the Commission. Some have said that ‘Television without Frontiers’ is a loaded title for the directive. There is also a special set of problems in this context. In many cases we see that the directive has not functioned in the intended manner with regard to opinion-formers or individual consumers who wish to view TV from another country. The Commission has found that the way in which copyright is handled prevents it from doing so. I hope that this issue too will be debated in greater depth in the future."@en1

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