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Establishing the 'AgoraEU' programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818
Document CJ65-AM-790061 · COM(2025)0550 – 2025/0550(COD)
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- Committee on Culture and Education Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
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Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (a) supporting the creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; | (a) supporting the artistically, creatively and editorially independent creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; |
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| (a) supporting the creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; | (a) supporting the creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, including independent productions and co-productions, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; |
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| (a) supporting the creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; | (a) supporting the creation of European audiovisual works across multiple formats and genres, independent productions and co-productions, with the potential to reach diverse audiences across borders; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) strengthening the circulation, promotion, theatrical distribution in cinemas, linear and online distribution of European film and audiovisual works including heritage works and their online availability, within the Union and outside the Union in the new digital environment, including through innovative business models and coordinated strategies, marketing and promotion tools, taking into account the specificities of different types of film and audiovisual works, their respective release strategies and the market opportunities existing for each of them, and supporting multilingual accessibility by providing subtitles and dubbing in various languages of the Union, with the aim of promoting linguistic diversity and making works accessible to a broad audience; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) strengthening the circulation, promotion, theatrical distribution in cinemas, audiovisual distribution and online distribution of European film and audiovisual works including heritage works and their online availability, within the Union and outside the Union in the new digital environment, including through innovative business models and coordinated strategies, marketing and promotion tools and supporting multilingual accessibility by providing subtitles and dubbing in various languages of the Union, with the aim of promoting linguistic diversity and making works accessible to a broad audience; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) enhancing the cross-border circulation, theatrical and online distribution, prominence, discoverability, and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, while promoting Europe's cultural and linguistic diversity, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; taking into account the specificities of different types of film and audiovisual works, their respective release strategies and the market opportunities existing for each of them |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution - including in cinemas, theaters and arenas - prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works, including cinematographic products on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools, as well as dubbing and subtitling; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools, and support for multilingual accessibility (including subtitling, dubbing and audio description as appropriate); |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; and scaling up high-quality subtitling, including in regional, minority and lesser-used languages; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, theatrical and online distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools, as well as subtitling and dubbing; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, theatrical and online distribution, prominence, linguistic diversity, discoverability and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence, discoverability, and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools, and subtitling and dubbing; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution including theatrical distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; |
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| (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union and internationally, including through coordinated distribution strategies, marketing and promotion tools; | (b) fostering the cross-border circulation, distribution, prominence and visibility of European audiovisual works on all mediums across the Union, including through coordinated distribution strategies; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (ba) supporting multilingual accessibility by providing subtitles and dubbing in various languages of the Union, as well as minority languages, with the aim of promoting linguistic diversity and making works accessible to a broad audience; |
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| (ba) supporting multilingual accessibility by providing subtitles, dubbing and sign languages also in regional and minority languages and underrepresented languages; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | deleted |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) strengthening the circulation, theatrical distribution and visibility of European films and audiovisual works, in particular European works circulating outside their country of origin, by supporting the actors that bring them to audiences, including international sales agents, film distributors, cinemas, European cinema networks, festivals and professional networks, as well as film literacy and educational activities, with particular attention to young audiences, small towns, rural and peripheral areas, smaller audiovisual markets and communities where access to cinemas and cultural venues remains limited; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) supporting the engagement and development of audiences for European films and audiovisual works, notably non-national works, including through support to cinema exhibition, notably a network of European cinemas, support to international sales agents and distributors, international professional networks, festivals and outreach campaigns, film literacy and education activities and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European films and audiovisual works, in particular non-national works, including through a network of European cinemas, and support to festivals, international sales agents and distributors, international professional networks, and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities, including persons with disabilities and communities lacking accessibility; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, anchored in regional networks and venues, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns and film literacy, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building and engaging diverse audiences for European audiovisual works, including heritage works, through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through film literacy, a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved rural communities; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals and outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; | (c) building audiences for European audiovisual works, including through a network of European cinemas, festivals, outreach campaigns, and addressing in particular young Europeans and underserved communities; |
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| (ca) supporting the accessibility of European audiovisual works for persons with disabilities, including through subtitling and captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, audio description for blind and partially sighted audiences, and other accessible formats, accompanied by adequate and dedicated funding and taking into account the capacity of independent distributors, small and art-house cinemas, SMEs and operators from smaller audiovisual markets; |
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| (ca) 1d fostering the cross-border dimension by reaching audiences and audiovisual companies in insular, outermost, and peripheral regions and promoting works in less widely spoken official EU languages; | |
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| (cb) supporting community-based access to European films and audiovisual works, in particular in areas with limited or no cinema infrastructure, including through film literacy activities and public-interest screenings organised in libraries, cultural centres, schools, youth centres, local cultural institutions and community venues, in full respect of copyright and licensing rules and with support for accessibility, subtitling, mediation and educational activities for young audiences; |
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| (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms; | (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, where appropriate using artificial intelligence provided by a European company, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms; |
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| (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms; | (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive works, including through market testing, audience-driven discoverability strategies, distribution across all platforms, and coordinated cross-border circulation, promotion and visibility within the Union and internationally; |
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| (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms; | (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content through simplification of the rules and creating a competitive environment; |
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| (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms; | (d) supporting the development and prototyping of European video games and immersive content, including through market testing, promotion and discoverability audience-driven strategies, and distribution across all platforms, including across regions and languages; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing and nurturing the emergence of European talents and authors, independent producers and other professionals, promoting gender equality, as well as diversity and inclusion, facilitating access to finance, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises in the audiovisual sector, and supporting business-to-business exchanges and networking, cross-border cooperation, participation in industry events, and the development and adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts by enhancing business competences and creative skills, through support to trainings, professional networks, cooperation and mobility, and to European audiovisual operators at industry events; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing skills and talent development throughout the value chain for both audiovisual works as well as videogames and building capacity, supporting access to finance primarily for small enterprises with lower administrative capacities, business-to-business exchanges and networking, cross-border cooperation, participation in industry events, and training for the development and adoption of creative, business, co-production and cross-border collaboration skills, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing skill and talent development and creating capacities, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts, as well as supporting access to finance, focusing especially on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent development, through support to training, professional networks, cooperation and mobility, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; through support to trainings, professional networks, cooperation and mobility. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent, competence and skills development, cross-border mobility, supporting access to finance, with particular attention given to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption and application of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, while respecting copyright and fair pay for European creators, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts, including through regional clusters and cross-border partnerships; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, with particular attention to SMEs, business-tobusiness exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) facilitating access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (e) enhancing talent development, supporting access to finance, business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; | (e) enhancing talent development, supporting business-to-business exchanges and networking, adoption of innovative tools and business models and cross-media intellectual property exploitation strategies, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (ea) support industry professional such as screen directors, authors and producers by providing targeted measures such as training, residencies, mobility schemes, peer-learning and exchange formats, mentoring, networking platforms and customised capacity-building actions, with a view to enabling them to develop their projects, share experiences, benefit from mutual learning, develop creative, business, co-production and cross-border collaboration skills; |
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| (ea) enhancing talent development and skills training, particularly in response to creative, market and technological shifts; |
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| (f) fostering policy dialogue, exchange of best practices, data collection and analysis, including the payment of the contribution fee for Union membership of the European Audiovisual Observatory; | (f) fostering policy dialogue, exchange of best practices, data collection and analysis; |
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| (f) fostering policy dialogue, exchange of best practices, data collection and analysis, including the payment of the contribution fee for Union membership of the European Audiovisual Observatory; | (f) fostering policy dialogue, exchange of best practices, data collection and analysis, including moderation of the contribution fee for membership of the European Audiovisual Observatory; |
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| (fa) contributing to a more level playing field for low capacity audiovisual countries; |
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| (g) contributing to the implementation of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.29 . | (g) contributing to the implementation of Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council29, without creating new obligations that go beyond the framework laid down by this directive. |
| 29 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 (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2010/13/oj). | 29 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 (OJ L 95, 15.4.2010, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2010/13/oj). |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Culture - MEDIA’ strand shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom, creative independence, audiovisual authors’ rights, and diversity of cultural expressions, and ensuring the provision of a more level playing field through actions with European added value that take into account the specificities of different countries, in particular regarding the production and distribution of content, access to content, the size and specificities of their markets and their cultural and linguistic diversity, in a way that broadens the participation of full member countries with smaller markets and lower production capacity, improves their access to funding, cooperation opportunities and distribution channels, and strengthens collaboration between countries with different capacities. |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Hristo Petrov, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the Media+ strand shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. Support should be restricted to works and performances based on a substantial and identifiable creative human contribution. The objectives of the programme shall be implemented keeping in mind the administrative capacity of beneficiaries. Without prejudice to [Performance regulation] or [Financial regulation] reporting obligations for beneficiaries should be proportionate to both the financial support received and the size of the beneficiary. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities, while taking into account the specificities of each country, particularly as regards the production and distribution of content, access to content and the size and specificities of their markets, in a way that broadens the participation of countries with smaller markets and lower production capacity, thereby improving their access to funding, collaborative opportunities and distribution channels. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. Actions supporting the development and production of audiovisual works shall primarily benefit micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC, and shall be designed to strengthen their competitiveness, innovation capacity and cross-border growth. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘MEDIA’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom, and cultural and linguistic expressions. It shall contribute to the improvement of working conditions for artists and audiovisual professionals. To this end, support shall be granted exclusively to activities that guarantee decent and safe working conditions, as well as fair and non discriminatory remuneration. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall take into account the specificities of different countries and will be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom, and ensuring participation and collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities, thereby contributing to a more level playing field. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities, including at regional level, and promoting multilingual creation and accessibility. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Media’ sub-strand shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and by promoting cross-border cooperation and mobility, while ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom , ensuring a broadened level playing field and enhanced collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and while ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. |
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| The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and ensuring collaboration among entities from Member States with different audiovisual capacities. | The implementation of the ‘Audiovisual’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for artistic freedom and promoting the good practice of Member States that have an advanced audiovisual sector. |
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| For that purpose, the Programme shall promote decent and safe working conditions, together with fair and non-discriminatory remuneration. Such support shall further be directed towards works and performances based on a substantial and identifiable creative human contribution. Where artificial intelligence tools are employed in an auxiliary capacity, they shall serve to enhance human creativity and be subject to informed consent, full transparency, and appropriate remuneration. Furthermore, creative works shall not rely on AI-generated content as its primary input, which would then be reworked by artists, particularly when it comes to subtitling and dubbing. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The priorities set out in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be addressed through support for the development, production, promotion, and dissemination of European works and support for access to those works, with the objective of reaching diverse audiences within Europe and beyond, adapting to new market developments and contributing to the implementation of Directive (EU) 2018/1808. |
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| Support within the 'MEDIA' specific objective shall further be restricted to works and performances based on a substantial and identifiable creative human contribution. Where artificial intelligence tools are employed in an auxiliary capacity, they shall serve to enhance human creativity, be deployed with full transparency and be in compliance with Union law. |
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| The Programme shall also contribute to increasing the accessibility for and take into consideration the needs of deaf, hardof- hearing, blind and visually impaired audiences, taking into account operational and economic realities and ensuring that adequate funding is made available to support these objectives. |
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| The Commission shall periodically assess the effectiveness and European added value of the support allocated to video games and immersive content in the context of the programme. |
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| The implementation of the ‘MEDIA’ specific objective shall take into account the specificities of different countries, in particular regarding the production and distribution of content, access to content, the size and specificities of their markets and their cultural and linguistic diversity, in a way that broadens the participation of countries with different audiovisual capacities and strengthens collaboration between those countries, thereby contributing to a more level playing field. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Manuela Ripa, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The actions through which the priorities set out in paragraph 1 of this Article are to be pursued are set out in Section 2 of Annex I. |
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| News | |
| Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News’ specific objective shall focus on: | |
| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | |
| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | |
| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | |
| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | |
| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | |
| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | |
| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. |
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| News | |
| Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News’ specific objective shall focus on: | |
| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | |
| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | |
| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | |
| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | |
| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | |
| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | |
| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| News | News Media - Press, Journalism & Fact-checking |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| News | Chapter IV News and journalism |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| News | News media and Journalism |
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| News | News media and journalism |
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| News | News and Journalism |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| News | News and journalism |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News’ specific objective shall focus on: | In line with the Programme objectives referred to in Article 3, the ‘News Media’ sub-strand shall have the following priorities; |
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| Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News and Journalism’ specific objective shall focus on: |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| Within the MEDIA+ strand, the ‘News’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the News media and Journalism strand specific objective shall focus on: |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting public interest news media outlets and journalists, in particular where they face threats, legal pressure - including SLAPPs - (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) - surveillance, harassment or economic precarity, in particular in contexts of heightened and systemic risks to media freedom and pluralism, and supporting initiatives that contribute to monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market, including by facilitating access to safety resources and emergency and psychosocial support and training (online/digital, physical and psychological) and by promoting journalistic professional and editorial standards; |
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting media service providers and journalists providing news and current affairs content with a view to guaranteeing the independence of editorial decisions, especially where they face threats, surveillance, legal or economic pressures, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, legal pressure, surveillance, harassment or economic precarity, and supporting initiatives that contribute to the monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; |
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, as well as independent information providers, especially where they face physical or unfounded legal threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting neutral journalistic and editorial standards; |
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards, with full respect for Member States’ competence in the area of media policy; |
Media policy remains largely within the competence of Member States. The programme should support the media without interfering in national competences.
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting and supporting news media outlets, journalists, and civil society organisations, especially where they face threats, economic precarity, surveillance, harassment or violence, including online, ensuring an enabling environment for them to operate independently, freely, safely, and effectively; |
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting news media outlets, journalists and media freedom and journalism support civil society, in particular where they face threats or in the context of systemic risks to media freedom and pluralism and supporting initiatives that contribute to monitoring, assessing and addressing those risks; |
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| (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially where they face threats, monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and promoting journalistic and editorial standards; | (a) protecting news media outlets and journalists, especially opposition media and journalists, where they face multi-faceted threats, including new threats such as debanking or the use of spyware, as well as safeguarding media freedom and pluralism in the internal market and addressing risks; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (aa) Promoting mechanisms to safeguard journalistic and editorial standards and editorial independence; supporting organisations representing the interests of journalists, including self-regulatory bodies; |
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| (aa) promoting mechanisms to safeguard journalistic and editorial standards and editorial independence; supporting organisations representing the interests of journalists, including self-regulatory bodies; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) supporting the production, distribution and accessibility of journalistic content produced in line with professional European and international standards , including coverage of European, regional and local independent news, in particular in areas with limited access to independent news coverage and which are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation, investigative journalism, the provision of information on matters of public interest, and crossborder activities aimed at enhancing the prominence, discoverability and accessibility of such content, cooperation of news media outlets, provided that the supported content is produced by news media outlets that demonstrate editorial independence from political parties, undue commercial influence and third country actors, and demonstrating editorial oversight ensuring transparency, accuracy, fairness and accountability; |
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European democracy has faced unprecedented challenges, especially in countries forming the EU’s eastern border. As outlined in the European Democracy Shield, EU candidate countries and specific Member States are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation due to their proximity with Russia and Belarus or are targets of intense destabilisation and interference attempts. Targeted support is needed to ensure democratic resilience of the Union.
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and accessibility of professional and public interest journalistic content, in a manner that promotes diversity of sources and viewpoints, including coverage of European, regional and local news, investigative journalism, and other forms of public interest journalism including in the digital environment while promoting diversity of sources and viewpoints; promoting fair and accurate representation of groups exposed to structural discrimination, and countering stereotypes, hate speech and disinformation targeting them |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and accessibility of professional and public interest journalistic content, in a manner that promotes diversity of sources and viewpoints, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, independent fact-checking, coverage of European, regional, local and community news, as well as other forms of independent public interest media, including in the digital environment; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and accessibility of professional and public interest journalistic content, in a manner that promotes diversity of sources and viewpoints, including investigative journalism, coverage of European, regional, local and community news, as well as other forms of independent journalism, including in the digital environment; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution, accessibility, consumption and archiving of professional and public interest journalistic content, in a manner that promotes diversity of sources and viewpoints, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, independent fact-checking, local news, and independent public interest media; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media, subject to financing that fully respects the diversity of political opinion; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local and regional news, and public interest media, including through targeted support mechanisms for local and regional media organisations; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution consumption and archiving of professional and public interest diverse journalistic content, supporting regional, local and community news organisations, as well as other forms of public interest media also in the digital environment; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media, with a particular focus on addressing news deserts; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional and independent journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, investigative journalism and supporting regional and local news media outlets and public interest media; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; |
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| (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs, investigative journalism, local news, and public interest media; | (b) enhancing the production, distribution and consumption of professional and objective journalistic content, including coverage of Union affairs and investigative journalism; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of news organisations, and other professional and public interest journalistic initiatives of diverse sizes and geographical scope, including innovative practices in the news production, distribution and business models contributing to a long-term viability and resilience, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and supporting the reskilling and upskilling of journalism professionals including freelancers; while ensuring inclusive access to training and promoting the human-rights respecting, trustworthy and responsible use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of news organisations, and other professional and public interest journalistic initiatives of diverse sizes and geographical scope, including innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of journalism professionals; while ensuring acess to training and promoting thrustworthy and responsible use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence. |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of professional news organisations of diverse sizes and geographical scope, including innovative practices, in news production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance, with due regard to SMEs, and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals ensuring inclusive access to training and promoting the trustworthy and responsible use of digital tools. |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of professional news organisations of diverse sizes and geographical scope, including innovative practices, in news production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals ensuring inclusive access to training and promoting the trustworthy and responsible use of digital tools. |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of news organisations, of diverse sizes and geographical scope with particular attention given to regional and local news organisations, innovative practices, in the news production, distribution and business models, including by facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and supporting the reskilling and upskilling of journalism professionals, including freelancers; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals, while ensuring inclusive access to training and promoting the human-rights respecting, trustworthy and responsible use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; particular attention will be paid to the digital transformation of local and regional media, including the application of innovative technologies and artificial intelligence tools; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news, with particular attention to small and medium-sized enterprises and regional and local news media outlets, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, prominence of trustworthy information online, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities, especially projects fostering cooperation among local and regional media organisations from different Member States, and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news, with particular attention given to small and medium-sized enterprises as well as regional and local news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance, without making this access conditional upon a specific editorial line, and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals, including in the minority language media sector; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals, including in the minority language media sector; |
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| (c) supporting the digital transformation of news organisations, innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; | (c) supporting innovative practices, new production, distribution and business models and encouraging cross-border activities and the reskilling and upskilling of news media professionals; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (ca) supporting transnational public-interest media services that provide trustworthy, multilingual European news, cultural and current-affairs content, including through subtitling, translation and online dissemination, where the beneficiary demonstrates editorial independence, a European public-service mission, multilingual capacity and effective distribution across several Member States and language areas; |
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| (ca) supporting efforts to address market asymmetries to foster a level playing field vis-à-vis providers of very large online platforms, including by supporting the responsible use of digital tools and artificial inteligence under human oversight, adherence to ethical standards, and mechanisms or frameworks that guarantee fiar remuneration for media service providers and profesional jounalistic content; |
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| (ca) ensuring the sustainability of news media outlets, in particular regional, local and community news media outlets, including facilitating their access to finance, supporting media operating in regional and minority languages and media of minorities communities and reinforcing the media infrastructure at local level; |
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| (ca) ensuring the sustainability of news outlets by facilitating access to finance, including local news media and supporting media operating in minority languages and media of minority communities and reinforcing the media infrastructure at local level; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (ca) ensuring the sustainability of local news media, including by supporting media operating in minority languages and media of minority communities and reinforcing the media infrastructure at local level; |
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| (ca) promoting the long-term sustainability, resilience and economic sustainability of independent local and regional media organisations, especially in rural, remote and underserved areas; |
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| (cb) promoting collaborative journalistic projects and initiatives for the exchange of content between local and regional media organisations; |
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| (cc) promoting the establishment and preservation of local information ecosystems, including support for media startups, non-profit media and community media; |
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| (cd) facilitating access to Union funds for small and micro media organisations through proportionate administrative requirements and technical assistance mechanisms; |
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| (ce) supporting the development of a system for measuring the audiences of local and regional radio stations; |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring, safeguarding and strengthening the online information space and the resilience of the news media sector, including support for independent monitoring, research, advocacy, capacity-building, digital transformation and innovation of news organisations and other media service providers of diverse sizes and geographical scope; supporting innovative practices in news production, distribution and business models, facilitating access to finance, encouraging cross-border activities, and supporting the reskilling and upskilling of media professionals, including freelancers; promoting work related to algorithmic transparency, recommender systems, content moderation, online advertising markets, and the discoverability and due prominence of trustworthy journalistic content, including the detection and combating of disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference; while ensuring inclusive access to training and the human-rights respecting, trustworthy and responsible use of digital tools, including artificial intelligence, thereby contributing to the long-term viability, resilience and sustainability of independent media across the Union. |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, supporting the effective implementation and monitoring of relevant Union legislation relating to the online environment, contributing to the detection and mitigation of illegal content and systemic risks online, promoting the integrity and trustworthiness of news and information, and addressing the impact of algorithmic curation and recommender systems on citizens' access to diverse and reliable sources of information thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Milan Zver, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, while protecting and promoting freedom of expression, through support for fact-checking and verification activities and the detection, analysis and combating of disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; such measures shall support the participation and cooperation of, inter alia, journalists, news media outlets and fact-checking organisations; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding a safe, robust, viable, independent, diverse and democratic online information ecosystem, including detecting, analysing and combating disinformation, such as gendered disinformation and anti-gender narratives, and information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to ensure greater democratic resilience across the Union, especially in areas and communities which are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation; |
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European democracy has faced unprecedented challenges, especially in countries forming the EU’s eastern border. As outlined in the European Democracy Shield, EU candidate countries and specific Member States are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation due to their proximity with Russia and Belarus or are targets of intense destabilisation and interference attempts. Targeted support is needed to ensure democratic resilience of the Union.
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; European remembrance initiatives and historical literacy may further support resilience against manipulation of historical narratives and disinformation in the digital information space; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting transparent, proportionate and legally accountable measures aimed at safeguarding the online information space against foreign information manipulation and interference, while fully respecting freedom of expression, media editorial independence, political pluralism, religious expression and the right of citizens to receive and impart information and opinions without public authority interference; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including through detecting and countering disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, while respecting media pluralism and editorial indipendence, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including through detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, while respecting media pluralism and editorial independence, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union, while fully respecting freedom of expression, pluralism of opinion and media freedom; |
The measures must not lead to restrictions on legitimate public debate or pluralism of opinions. The amendment ensures a balance between the resilience of the information space and the protection of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Charter.
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including by preventing, detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference and supporting independent factchecking, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation aimed at safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating information manipulation and interference from inside or outside the Union, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating propaganda by hostile states, as well as foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including through detecting and countering disinformation while respecting media pluralism and editorial independence, thereby strengthening democratic resilience across the Union; |
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| (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including detecting and combating disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to greater resilience across the Union; | (d) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding the online information space, including through detecting and countering disinformation, while respecting media pluralism and editorial independence; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (da) contribute to an inclusive audiovisual industry by ensuring the participation and accessibility of persons with disabilities and other marginalised groups. |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital, media, AI and data literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including children, young people, parents, older persons, educators, youth workers and persons in vulnerable situations, to develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, including synthetic media, recommender systems, online manipulation, scams, hate speech, discriminatory bias, disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference. |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy, critical thinking, in particular among young people, elderly people, and vulnerable groups, as a tool to better understand the information ecosystem and better detect information manipulation, and to combat gender stereotypes and other harmful stereotypes and gender-based disinformation and violence online, especially in areas and communities which are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation; |
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European democracy has faced unprecedented challenges, especially in countries forming the EU’s eastern border. As outlined in the European Democracy Shield, EU candidate countries and specific Member States are particularly exposed to FIMI and disinformation due to their proximity with Russia and Belarus or are targets of intense destabilisation and interference attempts. Targeted support is needed to ensure democratic resilience of the Union.
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, people in vulnerable situations and older persons, to develop and maintain, throughout their lives, a critical understanding of the information ecosystem and the skills necessary to access, assess, create and engage with information and media in a safe, informed and responsible manner; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical skills and understanding of the information ecosystem across digital environments and media channels, to identify and assess the reliability of information sources and to make informed choices. |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable people residing in the Union,across all age groups, to use and develop critical skills and understanding of the information ecosystem across digital environments and media channels, and to identify and assess the reliability of information sources; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable people residing in the Union of all ages to use and develop a critical thinking and understanding of the information ecosystem across digital environments and media channels, and to identify and assess the reliability of information sources; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Gabriela Firea, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable people residing in the Union of all ages, to use and develop a critical skills and understanding of the information ecosystem across digital environments and media channels, and to identify and assess the reliability of information sources; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, across all age groups, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, taking into account, among other things, the use and impact of artificial intelligence; |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Laurence Farreng, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens of all ages, starting from a young age, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, including the ability to critically recognise the role and use of artificial intelligence; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, including through accessible and linguistically diverse media literacy initiatives; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, including through accessible and linguistically diverse media literacy initiatives; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, with the active involvement of local and regional media organisations; |
Nikola Minchev, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Fabienne Keller, Laurence Farreng, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Hristo Petrov, Dainius Žalimas, Hilde Vautmans, Bernard Guetta
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people and older citizens, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem and of how online platforms shape public debate; |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable all citizens to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem, with particular attention to the needs of young people and vulnerable groups; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable all citizens, including young, old and other vulnerable groups, to use and develop critical skills and understanding of the information ecosystem; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) encouraging Member States to promote digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; |
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| (e) promoting digital and media literacy activities in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; | (e) promoting learning activities relating to media and digital tools in order to enable citizens, including young people, to use and develop a critical understanding of the information ecosystem; |
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| (ea) ensuring the viability of local and regional media, especially in peripheral, island and border regions, making it easier for them to access funding and strengthening media infrastructure locally; |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (ea) ensuring the sustainability of news media outlets by facilitating access to finance, including local news media, and supporting media operating in minority languages and media of minority communities, and reinforcing the media infrastructure at local level. |
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| (ea) promoting digital and media literacy, critical thinking and online safety for minors, including through support for parents, educators and youth workers; |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and the development of common standards relevant to media freedom and pluralism, including through activities contributing to the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 (European Media Freedom Act), notably by supporting cooperation among relevant stakeholders, including the European Board for Media Services. |
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) contributing to ensuring the proper functioning and the protection and promotion of a safe, viable, independent and diverse information ecosystem, including through monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market, reinforcing policy and dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards and tools; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, relevant to media freedom and pluralism, including through support for cooperation and activities contributing to the implementation of the European Media Freedom Act notably in relation to by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. |
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis. |
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards relevant to media freedom and pluralism , including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services; |
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| (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. | (f) reinforcing policy dialogue, data collection and analysis and sharing good practice, including by supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services. |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (fa) supporting independent research, monitoring, advocacy, public-interest scrutiny and cross-border cooperation related to platform governance, algorithmic transparency, recommender systems, content moderation systems, online advertising markets, media pluralism and the discoverability and due prominence of trustworthy journalistic content. |
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| (fa) strengthening the professional ecosystem for journalism by supporting an enabling environment, including joint initiatives by relevant stakeholders, to promote high professional standards, editorial independence, access to training, safety and legal protection, and sustainable working conditions for journalists and media professionals; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (fa) strengthening the professional ecosystem for journalism by supporting the enabling environment, including joint initiatives by relevant stakeholders, with a view to promoting professional standards, access to training and safety resources and conditions conducive to editorial independence and sustainable professional practice |
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| (fa) strengthening the professional ecosystem for journalism by supporting the enabling environment, including joint initiatives by relevant stakeholders, with a view to promoting professional standards, access to training and safety resources and conditions conducive to editorial independence; |
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| (fa) supporting and scaling cross-border investigative journalism collaborations and networks to hold power accountable, expose systemic threats to the Union, and safeguard the rule of law; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| (fb) supporting and scaling, where applicable cross-border investigative journalism, collaborations and networks to hold power accountable, expose systemic threats to the Union, and safeguard the rule of law; |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (fb) supporting the professional ecosystem for journalism through initiatives promoting professional standards, editorial independence, training, safety, cross-border cooperation and sustainable professional practice; |
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| (fb) supporting and scaling cross-border investigative journalism collaborations and networks to hold power accountable, expose systemic threats to the Union, and safeguard the rule of law. |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (fc) supporting initiatives aimed at improving the visibility, accessibility, discoverability and due prominence of independent, trustworthy and professionally produced journalistic content, particularly in digital environments shaped by online platforms and recommender systems. |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (fd) strengthening the professional ecosystem for journalism by supporting the enabling environment for independent journalism, including joint initiatives by relevant stakeholders, activities promoting professional standards, access to training and safety resources, editorial independence and sustainable professional practice; |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be designed and implemented in a manner that safeguards editorial independence and does not interfere with editorial decisions. Union funding under this objective shall be awarded and implemented in full respect of journalistic independence, professional integrity and ethical standards and shall contribute to strengthening the right of recipients of media services to have access to a plurality of editorially independent media content as referred in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 of the European Parliament and of the Council. |
| Union support shall be limited to actions that uphold fair, safe and independent working conditions, including adequate, transparent and non-discriminatory remuneration, in accordance with applicable Union law and practice. | |
| The use of artificial intelligence in the production or dissemination of journalistic content shall remain under effective human editorial control and responsibility and shall not prejudice journalistic standards, ethics or editorial integrity. Where AI-generated or AI-manipulated content is made available, its use shall be transparent and appropriately disclosed. | |
| Artificial intelligence tools shall support, and not replace, original journalistic work as the primary basis for news production. Their deployment shall be consistent with Directive (EU) 2019/790, including the obligation to respect any express reservation of rights pursuant to Article 4 concerning text and data mining, and with Article 15 thereof safeguarding the neighbouring rights of press publishers. |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Marco Tarquinio, Victor Negrescu
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News media and journalism’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. and shall be designed and implemented in a manner that safeguards editorial independence and shall not be used to influence editorial decisions. Union funding under this objective shall be implemented in a manner consistent with professional integrity and standards in journalism. |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News and Journalism’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. It shall contribute to the improvement of working conditions for journalism professionals. To this end, support shall be granted exclusively to activities that that guarantee decent and safe working conditions, as well as fair and non discriminatory remuneration. |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out to ensure the protection of media editorial independence, media pluralism, and professional journalistic standards, free from governmental, political, economic or private interests, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2024/1083. |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence, objective journalism and other professional standards. |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence, professional standards, and plurality of opinions. |
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for pluralism and media editorial independence and professional standards. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The implementation of the ‘News’ specific objective shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. | The implementation of the ‘News Media’ sub-strand shall be carried out with full respect for media editorial independence and professional standards. |
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| Where artificial intelligence tools are used in the production and dissemination of journalistic content, they shall remain subordinate to human editorial oversight and responsibility, and shall not undermine journalistic standards, ethics or integrity. The use of those tools shall be subject to full transparency, including the disclosure of AI-generated or AI-altered content, and shall not replace original journalistic work as the primary source of information and shall comply with Directive (EU) 2019/790, in particular Article 4 thereof, concerning the obligation to respect any express reservation of rights (opt-out) by rightholders to ensure that journalistic content is not used for text and data mining or AI training where such rights have been expressly reserved by the rightholders concerned, and Article 15 of that Directive to ensure that the neighbouring rights of press publishers are preserved. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The priorities set out in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be addressed through support for the production, dissemination, accessibility, discoverability and prominence of independent journalistic content and public-interest news media, as well as support for access to reliable and pluralistic information, in particular online, with the objective of reaching diverse audiences within the Union and beyond, strengthening media pluralism and resilience, adapting to technological and market developments, and contributing to the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market (European Media Freedom Act). |
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| Support within the News and Journalism specific objective shall further be restricted to works and performances based on a substantial and identifiable creative human contribution. Where artificial intelligence tools are employed in an auxiliary capacity, they shall serve to enhance human creativity, be deployed with full transparency and be in compliance with Union law. |
Sabine Verheyen, Hélder Sousa Silva, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Manuela Ripa, Sunčana Glavak, Łukasz Kohut, Eleonora Meleti, Viktor Weisz, Giusi Princi
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| The actions through which the priorities set out in paragraph 1 of this Article are to be pursued are set out in Section 2 of Annex I. |
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| IIIa Chapter IIIa Information and Journalism strand | |
| Article 6 Democratic News Ecosystem | |
| Within the ‘Information and Journalism’ strand, the ‘Democratic News Ecosystem’ specific objective shall focus on: | |
| (a) protecting and supporting news media outlets, journalists, and civil society organisations, especially where they face threats, economic precarity, surveillance, harassment or violence, including online, ensuring an enabling environment for them to operate independently, freely, safely, and effectively; | |
| (b) promoting mechanisms to safeguard journalistic and editorial standards and editorial independence; supporting organisations representing the interests of journalists, including self-regulatory bodies; | |
| c) supporting the production, distribution and accessibility of journalistic content produced in line with professional European and international standards , including coverage of European, regional and local independent news, in particular in areas with limited access to independent news coverage, investigative journalism, independent fact-checking, the provision of information on matters of public interest, and cross-border activities aimed at enhancing the prominence, discoverability and accessibility of such content, cooperation of news media outlets, provided that the supported content is produced by news media outlets that demonstrate editorial independence from political parties, undue commercial influence and third-country actors, and demonstrating editorial oversight ensuring transparency, accuracy, fairness and accountability | |
| (d) supporting the digital transformation of news media outlets and safeguarding their sustainability, competitiveness and innovation in the digital media market, including through innovative practices, technological tools and digital infrastructure, new methods for the distribution of news, development of innovative business models, upskilling, reskilling and training opportunities for news media professionals; | |
| (e) ensuring the sustainability of local news media, including through facilitating access to finance, supporting media operating in minority languages and media of minority communities and reinforcing the media infrastructure at local level; | |
| (f) enhancing cooperation and promoting measures aimed at monitoring and safeguarding a safe, robust, viable, independent, diverse and democratic online information ecosystem, including detecting, analysing and combating disinformation, such as gendered disinformation and anti-gender narratives, and information manipulation and interference, thereby contributing to ensure greater democratic resilience across the Union; | |
| (g) contributing to ensuring the proper functioning and the protection and promotion of a safe, viable, independent and diverse information ecosystem, including through monitoring, assessing and addressing risks to media freedom and pluralism in the internal market, reinforcing policy and dialogue, data collection and analysis and development of common standards and tools, including through supporting the work of the European Board for Media Services; | |
| (h) promoting digital and media literacy, critical thinking, in particular among young people, elderly people, and vulnerable groups, as a tool to better understand the information ecosystem and better detect information manipulation, and to combat gender stereotypes and other harmful stereotypes and gender-based disinformation and violence online. The implementation of the ‘Information and Journalism’ strand shall be carried out with full respect for editorial independence and professional standards and shall contribute to strengthening the right of recipients of media services to have access to a plurality of editorially independent media content as referred in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a. To that end, support shall be granted exclusively to activities that ensure fair, safe and independent working conditions, together with adequate, transparent and non discriminatory remuneration, in accordance with applicable Union law and practice. | |
| Where artificial intelligence tools are used in the production and dissemination of journalistic content, they shall remain subordinate to human editorial oversight and responsibility, human review or editorial control as well as editorial responsibility held by a natural or legal person and shall not undermine journalistic standards, ethics or integrity | |
| The use of those tools shall be subject to full transparency, including the disclosure of AI-generated or AI-altered content, and shall not replace original journalistic work as the primary source of information and shall comply with Directive (EU) 2019/790, in particular Article 4 thereof, concerning the obligation to respect any express reservation of rights (opt-out) by rightholders to ensure that journalistic content is not used for text and data mining or AI training where such rights have been expressly reserved by the rightholders concerned, and Article 15 of that Directive to ensure that the neighbouring rights of press publishers are preserved. |
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| IIIa Information and Journalism strand | |
| Article 6 | |
| Democratic News Ecosystem | |
| Within the ‘Information and Journalism’ strand, the ‘Democratic News Ecosystem’ specific objective shall focus on: | |
| (c) supporting the production, distribution and accessibility of journalistic content produced in line with professional European and international standards, including coverage of European, regional and local independent news in a manner that promotes diversity of sources and viewpoints, in particular in areas with limited access to independent news coverage, investigative journalism, the provision of information on matters of public interest, and where applicable, facilitating cross border activities aimed at enhancing the prominence, discoverability and accessibility of such content, cooperation of news media outlets, provided that the supported content is produced by news media outlets that demonstrate editorial independence from political parties, undue commercial influence and third country actors, and demonstrating editorial oversight ensuring transparency, accuracy, fairness and accountability; | |
| (d) supporting the digital transformation and innovation of news media outlets and other professional and public interest journalistic initiatives of diverse sizes and geographical scope and safeguarding their sustainability, competitiveness and innovation in the digital media market, including through innovative practices, technological tools and digital infrastructure, new methods for the distribution of news, development of innovative business models, upskilling, reskilling and training opportunities for news media professionals; | |
| Where artificial intelligence tools are used in the production and dissemination of journalistic content, they shall remain subordinate to human review or editorial control as well as editorial responsibility held by natural or legal person, and shall not undermine journalistic standards, ethics or integrity. |
To ensure more clarity for secretariat and Rapporteurs, only the points proposed for amendment are included. Omitted points remain unchanged and remain the same as in the draft report proposed by the co-rapporteurs.
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| IV CERV+ Strand | IV CERV Strand |
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| Rights, equality, citizens and civil society | Citizens, equality, rights and values |
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Rights, Equality, Citizens and Civil Society’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV strand, the ‘Citizens, equality, rights and values’ specific objective shall focus on: |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Rights, Equality, Citizens and Civil Society’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Rights, Equality, Citizens and Civil Society’ strand shall focus on: |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting inequalities and discrimination, including structural and intersectional inequalities and discrimination, on the grounds provided for in Article 21 of the Charter, including racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as well as gender and gender identity, and combating all forms of racism, antigipsyism, xenophobia and intolerance, including homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, transphobia, interphobia, as well as multiple and intersectional discrimination against Roma, both online and offline; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, respecting the principle of non-discrimination on the grounds provided for in Article 21 of the Charter, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance, including on the basis of gender identity, gender expression as well as multiple and intersectional discrimination. |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) Promoting equality, and preventing and fighting inequalities and discrimination, including structural and intersectional discrimination, on the grounds provided for in Article 21 of the Charter, including racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as well as gender and gender identity, and combating all forms of racism and intolerance including, antigypsyism xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, interphobia and intolerance on the basis of gender identity; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against all forms of discrimination, in accordance with the Treaties and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as combating racism, intolerance and incitement to hatred and violence, including Christianophobia and anti-Christian hatred; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against all forms of discrimination, adopting a universalistic approach; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting the strengthening within the Union of inegalitarian cultures from outside Europe, which poses a threat to the European concept of equality; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism intolerance and hatred, including antisemitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian hatred; |
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| (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism and intolerance; | (a) promoting equality, and preventing and fighting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and all forms of racism, intolerance and hate, including cristianophobia and antisemitism; |
A programme committed to non-discrimination must address hostility towards all major faith communities equally.
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (aa) Protecting a democratic civic space that safeguards and promotes the Union values as enshrined in Article 2 TEU and the Charter, and strengthening its resilience, ensuring preparedness within civic space to immediately respond to and counter attacks and threats from actors that seek to undermine the Union values in order to enable civic space actors to carry out their work unhindered, and by supporting initiatives that aim to promote transparency of algorithmic content curation, counter information and algorithmic manipulation on digital platforms and social media; |
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| (aa) promoting actions aimed at strengthening societal resilience, media literacy, information integrity, combating disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference, or other related challenges shall complement, and shall not replace or diminish, support for fundamental rights, equality, democratic participation, civic engagement, peace-building and the protection of civic space; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Victor Negrescu
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| (ab) protecting civil society organisations, human rights defenders and other relevant actors from SLAPP cases, surveillance, harassment or economic precarity, in particular in particular in contexts of heightened and systemic risks to fundamental rights and Rule of Law, and supporting initiatives that contribute to monitoring and assessing risks to fundamental rights and Rule of Law including by facilitating access to safety resources and emergency and psychosocial support and training (online/digital, physical and psychological). |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights, including women’s and girls’ equal access to cultural participation, media and AI literacy, digital skills, leadership, cultural entrepreneurship, civic participation and safe public and online spaces, with particular attention to women facing multiple forms of disadvantage, including young mothers, women with care responsibilities, women with disabilities, Roma women and girls, and women living in rural or disadvantaged areas; |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting full gender equality |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting and protecting the full enjoyment of rights by all citizens; |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights; |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting equality between men and women and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; |
The concept of ‘gender mainstreaming’ does not constitute a standalone programme objective established by the Treaties. The programme should focus on promoting equality between women and men and protecting women’s rights.
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting equality between men and women, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; |
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| (b) promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment, and protecting and promoting women’s full enjoyment of rights; | (b) promoting gender equality, women’s empowerment, the protection of women’s rights and their ability to fully enjoy these rights; |
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| (c) promoting accessibility and protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, supporting the EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; | (c) promoting accessibility and protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, by favouring meaningful actions in aid of accessibility, support and inclusion in day-to-day life and by supporting the EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; |
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| (c) promoting accessibility and protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, supporting the EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; | (c) encouraging Member States in particular to promote accessibility and protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities, supporting the EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; |
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| (ca) combating racism, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination, including homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, transphobia, interphobia and intolerance on the basis of gender identity, both online and offline; |
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| (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child; | (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child, in particular protecting minors from early exposure to violent or pornographic content or content that is unsuitable for their age; |
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| (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child; | (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child, highlighting the role of the family as the primary place of care, education and growth; |
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| (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child; | (d) protecting and promoting the rights of the child and ensuring the child's best interests remain the primary consideration; |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space, including through awareness-raising and non-formal learning on children’s and young people’s rights in digital environments increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, protection against manipulative design and exploitative profiling, and the safe, inclusive and non-discriminatory use of digital technologies; |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, in particular protection from arbitrary censorship, disproportionate restrictions to freedom of expression and digital exclusion on the basis of lawful political views, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Sandro Ruotolo, Victor Negrescu
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression and information, the right to privacy, the right to the protection of personal data as well as fundamental rights across the digital space and digitalised ecosystems |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression and information, the right to privacy, the right to the protection of personal data as well as all fundamental rights across the digital and digitised ecosystem; |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, parental rights, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, including by abolishing vague laws on hate speech, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; |
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| (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; | (e) protecting and promoting freedom of expression, information integrity, the right to privacy, the protection of personal data as well as rights in the digital space; |
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| (ea) protecting and promoting the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and promoting their effective participation in social, economic and cultural life and in public affairs; |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | deleted |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) supporting civil society organisations on the basis of preserving and promoting Europe’s national and Christian cultural heritage. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) supporting civic participation and civil society organisations in a transparent, politically neutral and non-partisan manner, including organisations active in the fields of cultural heritage, family support, religious freedom, intergenerational solidarity, local communities and the protection of national and linguistic traditions, where their activities contribute to citizens’ awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaties and the Charter. Such support shall respect the constitutional identity, institutional autonomy and democratic processes of Member States and shall not finance party-political activities, electoral campaigning, ideological advocacy directed at minors, or actions primarily aimed at exerting political pressure on national governments or parliaments. |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity and resilience of, and providing accessible, predictable and multiannual financial support, which shall include the award of operating grants, and protection measures to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other civic space relevant actors - including organisations representing groups exposed to structural discrimination, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising awareness of rights and values enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter, |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaties and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter, including targeted and accessible support for organisations representing groups exposed to discrimination. |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Brigitte van den Berg, Irena Joveva, Fabienne Keller, Lucia Yar, Dainius Žalimas, Laurence Farreng, Nikola Minchev, Sophie Wilmès, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience including through support for independent fact-checking activities that contribute to informed public debate and resilience against disinformation, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter, while ensuring that funds are allocated in a transparent, non-discriminatory and politically neutral manner. |
Funding of civil society from the Union budget should be based on transparent and objective criteria and should not lead to favouritism towards organisations based on their political or ideological positions.
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, such as think tanks whose statutory aims are to protect and promote European values, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. |
Nikola Minchev, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Fabienne Keller, Laurence Farreng, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Irena Joveva, Hristo Petrov, Hilde Vautmans, Bernard Guetta, Dainius Žalimas
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, strengthening EU democratic resilience, fostering mutual understanding, civic trust and depolarisation, promoting non-discrimination and equality, and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter, in accordance with the Commission Guidance of April 2025. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. |
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| (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity of, and providing financial support to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other relevant actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising citizen’s awareness of rights enshrined in the Treaty, promoting EU democratic resilience, non-discrimination and equality and more broadly Union values, such as the respect for fundamental rights, the rule of law, democracy and in protecting and promoting respect of the Charter. | (f) nurturing a vibrant civic space by building the capacity and resilience of, and providing accessible, predictable and multiannual financial support, which shall include the award of operating grants to, civil society organisations, human rights defenders, and other civic space actors, which are active at all levels in protecting, promoting and raising awareness of rights and values enshrined in the Treaty, the Charter and applicable international human rights conventions, including nondiscrimination and equality. |
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| (fa) fostering European remembrance as a component of civic awareness and democratic resilience, including by supporting activities and initiatives relating to Europe’s history, in particular the twentieth century, and to the causes and consequences of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in modern European history, including Nazism, which led to the Holocaust, fascism, Stalinism and totalitarian communist regimes; and by promoting reflection on the plurality of individual, local and transnational historical experiences that form part of Europe’s shared historical heritage, thereby contributing to a better understanding of the Union, its origins, purpose and values. |
Adapted from CERV: "Remembrance activities and critical reflection on Europe’s historical memory are necessary to make citizens, in particular young persons, aware of their common history and values as the foundation for a common future. Remembrance activities should reflect on the causes of totalitarian regimes in Europe’s modern history, in particular Nazism, which led to the Holocaust; fascism; Stalinism and totalitarian communist regimes, and should commemorate the victims of their crimes. They should also encompass activities concerning other defining moments and reference points in recent European history. The relevance of historical, social, cultural and intercultural factors should also be taken into account in order to create a European identity based on common values and a sense of common belonging."
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| (fa) recognising and supporting the role of the family as the primary setting for solidarity, education and care, promoting initiatives aimed at strengthening social cohesion, intergenerational responsibility, the wellbeing of minors and the involvement of families in civic and community life, while respecting the competences of the Member States. |
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| (fa) preventing and countering radicalisation and violent extremism, in all their forms, including Islamist extremism, with a view to strengthening democratic resilience, social cohesion and the protection of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU. |
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| (fa) protecting and promoting the rights of persons belonging to minorities, including traditional national and linguistic minorities; |
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| (fa) recognising and supporting the role of civil society organisations in advocacy, democratic participation and policy-making; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda
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| supporting activities of civil society organisations and non-profit stakeholders - including in advocacy, watchdog activities, campaigning and strategic litigation aimed at protecting, promoting and fulfilling fundamental rights and Union values, as set out in Article 2 TEU and the Charter, ensuring respect for democracy and, the rule of law s and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency and good governance; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu, Michał Kobosko
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| New priorities and actions introduced under the Programme shall be additional and shall not replace or reduce the scope, funding or objectives of existing priorities and actions. |
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| Daphne | Rule of Law and Democracy |
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| Daphne | Union Values |
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Rule of Law and Democracy’ specific objective shall focus on: |
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Union Values’ specific objective shall focus on: |
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ substrand shall focus on: |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Daphne’ specific objective shall focus on: | Within the ‘Daphne’ strand specific objective shall focus on: |
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| (-a) promoting, protecting and fulfilling fundamental rights and Union values as set out in Article 2 TEU and the Charter, ensuring respect for the rule of law and contributing to the construction of a more democratic Union, democratic dialogue, transparency and good governance. |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of online and offline gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, including by promoting the standards laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the Istanbul Convention) and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ+ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, persons with disabilities and all persons at risk, with support being based on the needs of victims and survivors and with full respect for human dignity, family life and Member States’ competences in criminal law, family law, health and education; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) purposefully preventing and fighting all forms of violence and threats of violence, and promoting the general principle of zero tolerance of violence; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms online and offline of gender-based violence against women and girls, including sexual violence and rape, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk in accordance with the art. 21 of the Charter and the case law; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) protecting and promoting democracy and the rule of law, including by safeguarding the independence of the judiciary, ensuring effective judicial protection and access to justice before independent and impartial courts, access to information and transparency and prevention of arbitrariness by public authorities, including enforcement and independent oversight bodies; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk, including hate speech directed against persons belonging to national and linguistic minorities; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of violence, including persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people or persons with disabilities; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; |
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of violence committed against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, persons with disabilities, and other groups at risk; |
The program should focus on protecting victims of violence without creating a hierarchy between individual population groups. Protection from violence should be ensured for all persons at risk.
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| (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, LGBTIQ people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; | (a) preventing, responding to and fighting at all levels all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, domestic violence, and violence against children, young and older people, persons with disabilities and other groups at risk; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (b) protecting and supporting all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a); | (b) protecting and supporting direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence referred to in points (a) and (aa), in particular by facilitating access to justice and support services, including specialised services for women and support provided by grassroots organisations with specialised gender-based violence expertise, as well as by providing direct assistance to victims and survivors; |
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| (b) protecting and supporting all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a); | (b) protecting and supporting all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a), in particular by supporting meaningful actions to protect, support and provide accommodation for victims; |
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| (b) protecting and supporting all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a); | (b) protecting and strengthening whistleblower defence and initiatives that enhance transparency, accountability, integrity and the absence of corruption, including by supporting strategic litigation; |
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| (b) protecting and supporting all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a); | (b) protecting and encouraging Member States to support all direct and indirect victims and survivors of violence as referred in point (a); |
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| (ba) providing quality education that tackles gender stereotypes and reinforces the prohibited actions listed under point (a); |
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | deleted |
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | deleted |
The Union is bound only within the scope of its competences after accession to selected parts of the Istanbul Convention. The funding programme should not include a separate objective aimed at supporting the implementation of an international convention by which not all Member States are bound.
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | (c) undertaking monitoring of the compliance with the rule of law and all other fundamental values enshrined in Article 2 TEU, including implementation of relevant rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as sound financial management of the Union budget, and initiatives promoting such compliance; |
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union, subject to this convention not being used to grant refugee status to third-country nationals. |
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | (c) supporting measures to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence in accordance with Union competences and without affecting Member States’ competences in the fields of criminal law, family law, education, health policy and moral or ethical questions. |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | (c) supporting the implementation, within the Union, of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and of Directive (EU) 2024/1385 on combating violence against women and domestic violence; |
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| (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Union. | (c) supporting the achievement of the objectives of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the Member States. |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, Alessandro Zan, José Cepeda
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| (ca) providing quality education that tackles gender stereotypes, including relationship and consent education and reinforces the impermissibility of the actions listed under point (a); |
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| (ca) supporting, protecting, empowering and building the capacity and resilience of civic space actors active in the promotion and protection of fundamental values enshrined in Article 2 TEU. |
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| (ca) supporting, empowering and building the capacity of civic space actors active in the promotion and protection of fundamental rights, rule of law and democracy. |
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| Democratic participation and rule of law | Democratic participation |
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| Democratic participation and rule of law | Democratic participation |
Brigitte van den Berg, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Nikola Minchev, Hristo Petrov, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Democratic participation and rule of law’ specific objective of the Programme shall focus on: | Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Democratic participation and rule of law’ substrand of the Programme shall focus on: |
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| Within the CERV+ strand, the ‘Democratic participation and rule of law’ specific objective of the Programme shall focus on: | Within the CERV strand, the ‘Democratic participation’ specific objective of the Programme shall focus on: |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights and the rights of people living in the Union, as well as the participation and engagement of individuals, representative associations and civil society organisations in the democratic and civic life of the Union, by enabling them to make known and publicly exchange their views in all areas of Union action, including through democratic dialogue and active participation, and by supporting open, inclusive, resilient, rights-based and equal societies based on the rule of law; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law, in accordance with the Commission Guidance of April 2025; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ and representative associations’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, inclusive, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on democracy, the rule of law and European heritage; |
Nikola Minchev, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Fabienne Keller, Laurence Farreng, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Hristo Petrov, Dainius Žalimas, Hilde Vautmans, Bernard Guetta
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and supporting open, pluralist, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on democracy and the rule of law; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the equality of citizens before the law; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, inclusive and equal societies based on the rule of law; |
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| (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support open, resilient, rights-based, and equal societies based on the rule of law; | (a) protecting and promoting Union citizenship rights as well as citizens’ participation and engagement in the democratic and civic life of the Union, and support societies based on the rule of law; |
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| (aa) preventing and addressing online harms affecting minors, including online violence, exploitation, grooming and exposure to harmful content; |
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| (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes; | (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes, including by promoting informed civic participation, protecting the integrity of electoral systems, and supporting initiatives that safeguard democratic principles through greater oversight of social media platforms and the wider digital information environment and malicious actors who exploit those networks with a view to eroding democratic systems; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Birgit Sippel, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes; | (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible, diverse and inclusive electoral and democratic processes, in particular for persons with disabilities, older persons and other groups facing barriers to participation, including those resulting from digitalisation or intersectional discrimination; |
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| (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes; | (b) supporting citizens’ awareness of free and fair democratic processes, without prejudice to the exclusive responsibility of Member States for the organisation, conduct, supervision and legal regulation of national, regional and local elections and referenda; |
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| (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes; | (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes, taking account of the rights of Member States; |
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| (b) supporting free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral and democratic processes; | (b) supporting pluralistic, democratic, free, fair, resilient, accessible and inclusive electoral processes, without manipulating them; |
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| (ba) supporting, on a continuous and structural basis independent of electoral cycles and initiatives that detect, monitor and counter disinformation and foreign manipulation and interference, promote the integrity of the information environment, and mitigate algorithmic manipulation, including through funding civil society organisations, researchers, fact-checking entities and platform accountability bodies whose core mandate is the year-round monitoring, analysis and countering of disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference, and the misuse of digital platforms against democratic processes; |
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Matjaž Nemec, Maria Grapini, Katarina Barley, Csaba Molnár, José Cepeda, Victor Negrescu
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting civic awareness and a better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity, in order to foster mutual understanding, democratic resilience and tolerance, including through citizenship education, volunteering and civic engagement, in accordance with the Union of Skills and in synergy with Global Europe and Erasmus+ programmes, including in the field of global citizenship education; |
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting European way of life and sense of belonging, civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance, to safeguard and to foster the transmission of European cultural and historical heritage for present and future generations. |
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting civic awareness. |
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, including the coming to power of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and other defining episodes in recent European history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. |
Nikola Minchev, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Fabienne Keller, Laurence Farreng, Irena Joveva, Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle, Hristo Petrov, Dainius Žalimas, Hilde Vautmans, Bernard Guetta
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding, tolerance, depolarisation, constructive and restorative civic dialogue, and trust among citizens across the Union. |
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| (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance. | (c) promoting civic awareness and better understanding of the Union, its common history, memory and diversity to foster mutual understanding and tolerance, while respecting the national identities of the Member States, inherent in their fundamental political and constitutional structures. |
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European Parliament (2026). “AMENDMENTS 917 - 1224 - Draft report Establishing the 'AgoraEU' programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818”. Text, 19 June 2026. docId CJ65-AM-790061. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/CJ65-AM-790061 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/CJ65-AM-790061 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-cj65-am-790061,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{AMENDMENTS 917 - 1224 - Draft report Establishing the 'AgoraEU' programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-19},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/CJ65-AM-790061}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/CJ65-AM-790061},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId CJ65-AM-790061. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}