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Public Service Broadcasting and the European Union

Public Service Broadcasting and the European Union. Nico van Eijk Institute for Information Law (IViR, University of Amsterdam) ‘The Future of Public Service Media in the Information Age’ Jerusalem, 2 January 2006. Topics. Liberalisation of the broadcasting market State Aid.

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Public Service Broadcasting and the European Union

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  1. Public Service Broadcasting and the European Union Nico van Eijk Institute for Information Law (IViR, University of Amsterdam) ‘The Future of Public Service Media in the Information Age’ Jerusalem, 2 January 2006

  2. Topics • Liberalisation of the broadcasting market • State Aid

  3. Liberalisation of the market • Pressure to open up markets • ‘Television without Frontiers’-directive aiming at harmonising: • Access to other markets • Advertising • Sponsoring • Etc…

  4. Effects of liberalisation • New commercial entrants (national and foreign) • ‘Commercialisation’ of public service broadcasting • Minimum standards become maximum standards • Dilution of the public service remit

  5. The EU Routine • Altmark Criteria • Clear public service obligations • Pre-established parameters for compensation • No over-compensation • Tender or ‘well-run undertaking’-test • Communication European Commission on state aid and public service broadcasting • Services of general economic interest • Maastricht treaty

  6. Issues at stake • Public funding system • Public service remit • Separation of accounts/financing • Over compensation/proportionality • Competitive behaviour

  7. Public service remit in the information age • Focus today on commercial issues and state aid • Paradigm shift needed • Finding the ‘ten commandments’ of public service broadcasting

  8. Prof. dr. N.A.N.M. van Eijk Institute for Information Law (IViR) University of Amsterdam Email: vaneijk@ivir.nl www.ivir.nl

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