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Public Service Broadcasting and the European Union
Nico van Eijk Institute for Information Law (IViR, University of Amsterdam)‘The Future of Public Service Media in the Information Age’
Jerusalem, 2 January 2006
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Topics
• Liberalisation of the broadcasting market
• State Aid
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Liberalisation of the market
• Pressure to open up markets
• ‘Television without Frontiers’-directive aiming at harmonising:– Access to other markets– Advertising– Sponsoring– Etc…
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Effects of liberalisation
• New commercial entrants (national and foreign)
• ‘Commercialisation’ of public service broadcasting
• Minimum standards become maximum standards
• Dilution of the public service remit
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The EU Routine
• Altmark Criteria– Clear public service obligations– Pre-established parameters for
compensation– No over-compensation– Tender or ‘well-run undertaking’-test
• Communication European Commission on state aid and public service broadcasting
• Services of general economic interest• Maastricht treaty
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Issues at stake
• Public funding system
• Public service remit
• Separation of accounts/financing
• Over compensation/proportionality
• Competitive behaviour
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Public service remit in the information age
• Focus today on commercial
issues and state aid
• Paradigm shift needed
• Finding the ‘ten
commandments’ of public
service broadcasting
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Prof. dr. N.A.N.M. van EijkInstitute for Information Law (IViR)University of AmsterdamEmail: [email protected]