The project of the General Act on Audiovisual Communication has received the votes of PSOE, United We Can, PNV and ERC; the rejection of PP, Vox and Junts; and the abstinence of Bildu and Ciudadanos.
The Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation Committee of the congress on Thursday approved the advice of the presentation of the Draft General Law on Audiovisual Communication, with the votes of PSOE, United We Can, PNV and ERC, and the rejection of PP, Vox and Junts, and the abstention of Bildu and Ciudadanos. The plenary session of the House of Representatives will deal with the matter foreseeably next Thursday.
The Committee on Economic Affairs has agreed to: text changes related to intellectual property, presented by the PP and Ciudadanos; environmental values; or the community media, among others. Socialist group sources have emphasized that the PSOE has reached agreements with “all groups” except Vox during the processing of the norm.
Among the changes approved this Thursday is an amendment to add a new Article 12, tabled by Ciudadanos, which provides that “audiovisual communication will be respectful” with the rights of third parties recognized in current Intellectual Property Law.
MEPs also approved a compromise on a Junts amendment that aims to promote codes of conduct that encourage audiovisual content that promotes “respect for nature”preserving the environment and animal welfare, and warning of the effects of climate change.
Instead, the initiative of United We Can, ERC, Bildu, Junts, PDeCAT, Más País, Compromís, BNG, CUP and Nueva Canarias is joint bullfighting shows were considered “harmful content” for minors is disapproved in this procedure.
More than 1000 amendments
The text, to which more than 1,000 amendments were tabled, contained several socialist amendments in the Paperwork process that cast doubt on United We Can, which ultimately backed the opinion, leading to the rejection of independent producers.
The question about the language quota of the co-official languages of the state is one of the topics that has focused much of the debate during the Commission session, as well as the issue related to the situation of the targeted production companies in the audiovisual law.
EH Bildu’s spokesman, Mertxe Aizpurua, has been critical, ensuring that the standard is “a missed opportunity because it is generally limited to a very conservative transposition of the European directive” and that “the new opportunities offered by this directive are greatly missed”. However, he has acknowledged that there have also been “substantial improvements, most of which have to do with the co-official languages”.
The PNV spokesperson for his part Joseba Agirretxea He celebrated that the negotiations made it possible to save “the three big issues” they had to defend: self-government, preserving the autonomy of EiTB and guaranteeing the presence of Basque in the new audiovisual framework. “A large number of amendments have been accepted in their original form. Others have been compromised and we can say that fortunately the text is no longer what it was,” he noted.
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