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The honourable Member raised the issue of the provision of subtitling and audio description last year in Parliament's resolution on television without frontiers. It is certain that digital broadcasting offers improved subtitling and audio description when compared with the analogue system. There are already standards for these services. I see the switchover to digital television as an opportunity for enhanced services of this type. It is not a threat.
As I told Parliament at my hearing in September, I believe that the development of new technologies must be to the benefit of citizens and of their welfare. That is why my services will shortly publish a call for tenders, launching a study on accessibility to digital television. This study will focus on developing policy models in order to help Member States implement assistive services.
I would also like to say that there is no requirement in European law for broadcasters in Member States to provide subtitling and audio descriptions. Provision of assistive service is handled under the subsidiarity principle, but there are of course some areas coordinated at Community level by the Television Without Frontiers Directive. Within the framework of this directive, I have called on the contact committee to provide information on the measures taken by the Member States in order to enhance the opportunities for access of visually- and hearing-impaired people to television programmes.
We are now in the process of collecting and analysing the Member States' replies. Our aim is to promote best practice among regulators and industry groups and we will work with Member States to promote availability of assistive services and to foster an economically viable market for equipment that addresses accessibility needs."@en1
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