Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-12-12-Speech-2-218"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Coordination of certain of the Member States' provisions on television broadcasting (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061212.40.2-218"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-12-12-Speech-2-2192
lpv:speaker	lp:Luis Herrero-tejedor2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; PETI (2006-09-20--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we all know that democracy is a system of public opinion, and the freer the media is, the better the democracy. This directive regulates the media in the audiovisual sector and I believe that the question we should ask is: does it make it freer or less free than before? In order to respond to that question, we should consider this equation: the greater the interventionism of the authorities, the less free the media is, and vice versa: the less intervention there is from the authorities, the greater the freedom of the media. In my view, ladies and gentlemen, this directive is unfortunately excessively interventionist: with regard to advertising, with regard to quotas of audiovisual production, with regard to unnecessarily extending the scope to non-linear services, but above all, with regard to giving the national regulatory authorities power to protect the fundamental right of freedom of expression. All democrats know that protecting fundamental rights falls exclusively to courts of justice. This directive, however, and through no fault of the rapporteur, who has fought extremely bravely – and I thank you for that, Mrs Hieronymi – gives national regulatory authorities the power to decide what is accurate and what is not, what may be broadcast and what may not or, as has happened in Catalonia, one of the European regions with the poorest level of democracy in the whole of the European Union, which operators may broadcast and which may not. That is a way of opening ourselves up to prior censorship. I would ask you, please, Mrs Reding, to take this seriously, to see whether we can avoid it, amongst other things because we will have to listen carefully to what organisations such as Reporters Without Borders, the World Association of Newspapers or the World Press Freedom Committee have to say about this issue. They are going to embarrass us. I hope that that embarrassment will at least force us to correct our mistake in time."@en1

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