Annexes to COM(2022)457 - Common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act)

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dossier COM(2022)457 - Common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act).
document COM(2022)457 EN
date April 11, 2024
annexed to the Treaty of the European Community - Protocol on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States, OJ C 340 , 10.11.1997, p. 109.
(27) Strategic Compass for Security and Defence.
(28) Council Conclusions. Complementary efforts to enhance resilience and counter hybrid threats, 14972/19, 10.12.2019; Council conclusions on strengthening resilience and countering hybrid threats, including disinformation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, 14064/20, 15.12.2020, and Council conclusions on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI), 11429/22, 18.7.2022.
(29) Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on public service media governance (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 February 2012 at the 1134th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies).
(30) COM(2020) 790 final.
(31) C(2021) 6650 final.
(32) COM(2022) 177 final.
(33) Commission Recommendation (EU) 2022/758 of 27 April 2022 on protecting journalists and human rights defenders who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (‘Strategic lawsuits against public participation’) OJ L 138, 17.5.2022, p. 30–44.
(34) COM(2022) 28 final.
(35) COM(2020) 784 final.
(36) The other two mission areas are the ‘societal transformations related to the green transition’ and ‘equality and inclusion’.
(37) European Parliament, Committee on Culture and Education, Report on Europe’s Media in the Digital Decade: an Action Plan to Support Recovery and Transformation (2021/2017(INI)).
(38) Council conclusions on the protection and safety of journalists and other media professionals, OJ C 245, 28.6.2022.
(39) Judgments of 13 December 1979, Hauer, 44/79, EU:C:1979:290, paragraphs 14-16; 20 May 2003, Österreichischer Rundfunk, joined Cases C-465/00, C-138/01 and C-139/01, EU:C:2003:294, paragraphs 68 et seq.; of 9 November 2010, Schecke, joined cases C-92/09 and C-93/09, EU:C:2010:662, paragraph 46.
(40) Judgments of 15 September 2016, Mc Fadden, C-484/14, EU:C:2016:170, paragraphs 68 et seq.; of 26 April 2022, Poland v Parliament and Council (“copyright Directive”), C‑401/19, EU:C:2022:29, paragraph 66.
(41) European Commission (2022). Outcome of the Call for Evidence . A total of 1 470 submissions were received via the Have your say portal, while three additional ones were received outside the site but within the timeline of the consultation and were therefore included in the responses.
(42) European Commission (2022). Outcome of the public consultation .
(43) PwC, Intellera and Open evidence, “Support for the preparation of an impact assessment to accompany an EU initiative on the European Media Freedom Act”, VIGIE 2021-644; European University Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, “Study on media plurality and diversity online”, VIGIE 2020-825.
(44) F.J. Cabrera Blázquez, M. Cappello, J. Talavera Milla, S. Valais, Governance and independence of public service media, IRIS Plus, European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg, 2022; and ERGA, Internal Media Plurality in Audiovisual Media Services in the EU: Rules & Practices, 2018.
(45) See Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on public service media governance (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 15 February 2012 at the 1134th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies) and Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)1[1] of the Committee of Ministers to member States on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership.
(46) Conference on the Future of Europe – Report on the Final Outcome, May 2022, in particular proposal 27 (1) and 37 (4).
(47) Centro Europa 7 S.R.L. and Di Stefano v. Italy [GC], no 38433/09, § 134, ECHR 2012.
(48) Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1-24).
(49) Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directive 2006/70/EC (OJ L 141, 5.6.2015, p. 73-117).
(50) Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC (OJ L 182, 29.6.2013, p. 19-76).
(51) OJ C , , p. . 
(52) Directive (EU) 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 amending Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) in view of changing market realities (OJ L 303, 28.11.2018, p. 69-92).
(53) Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market ('Directive on electronic commerce') (OJ L 178, 17.7.2000, p. 1-16).
(54) Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services (OJ L 186, 11.7.2019, p. 57-79).
(55) Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation) (OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1-22).
(56) Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65-242).
(57) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39-98).
(58) Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States (OJ L 190, 18.7.2002, p. 1-20).
(59) As referred to in Article 58(2)(a) or (b) of the Financial Regulation.
(60) Diff. = Differentiated appropriations / Non-diff. = Non-differentiated appropriations.
(61) EFTA: European Free Trade Association.
(62) Candidate countries and, where applicable, potential candidates from the Western Balkans.
(63) Technical and/or administrative assistance and expenditure in support of the implementation of EU programmes and/or actions (former ‘BA’ lines), indirect research, direct research.
(64) Technical and/or administrative assistance and expenditure in support of the implementation of EU programmes and/or actions (former ‘BA’ lines), indirect research, direct research.
(65) AC = Contract Staff; AL = Local Staff; END = Seconded National Expert; INT = agency staff; JPD = Junior Professionals in Delegations.
(66) Sub-ceiling for external staff covered by operational appropriations (former ‘BA’ lines).
(67) As regards traditional own resources (customs duties, sugar levies), the amounts indicated must be net amounts, i.e. gross amounts after deduction of 20 % for collection costs.