WRITTEN QUESTION P-4023/00 by Maurizio Turco (TDI) to the Commission. Funding of radio and television broadcasts in Italian.
Date: 2000-12-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU financing, EU programme, Italy, broadcasting, television

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WRITTEN QUESTION P-4023/00

by Maurizio Turco (TDI) to the Commission

(12 December 2000)

Subject: Funding of radio and television broadcasts in Italian

Do the European institutions fund Italian-language radio and televisions broadcasts?

Under what heading, according to what criteria and in accordance with what procedures is the funding
allocated?

What broadcasts are funded and what is the amount of funding for each individual broadcast?

If checks are carried out, what parameters are used and who carries out the checks?

Answer given by Mrs Reding on behalf of the Commission

(26 January 2001)

The Commission would like to draw the Honourable Member(cid:146)s attention to the Community(cid:146)s MEDIA
programme, its main programme in the audiovisual field.

The MEDIA programme does not cover the field of radio broadcasting. Furthermore,
television broadcasting is strictly targeted at independent production companies, not broadcasters.

its support to

The MEDIA programme supports independent European production companies producing European
involving the participation of at least two
television programmes (fiction, animation, documentaries)
broadcasting companies from at least two of the participant countries in the MEDIA programme. The
television programme must have a minimum duration of 25 minutes and must not have been broadcast
before the date of the deadline of the relevant call for proposals. Exploitation rights licensed to the
broadcasters participating in the production have to revert to the producer after a maximum license period
of seven years.

During the MEDIA II programme six Italian television projects have been supported for a total Community
contribution of € 990 000.

Television programme

Producer

Ressurezione

Pomodori

Filmtre srl

Videa Documentary

Song on a Narrow Path

Stefilm

The Goddess From Afar

Videa Documentary

Sur la Pointe du Coeur

Junior Film International

Coro Di Bosa

Stefilm sas

MEDIA
award

500 000

20 000

25 000

25 000

390 000

30 000

In addition to the MEDIA programme the Budgetary Authority included, ever since 1998, an item
(B3-2016) to support (cid:145)initiatives on innovative and multilingual radio and television channels and for
pilot projects in the areas of electronic distribution of content and electronic production networks(cid:146), in the
form of financial contributions which cannot exceed 50 % of the total expenditure of the programme. The
qualitative content-based criteria foresee that projects must either be targeted at the operational phase of
the implementation of European digital radio services (Action 1) or of European multilingual television
channels/groups of television channels (Action 2), or concern pilot projects in the area of electronic
content distribution (Action 3) or electronic production networks (Action 4). Analysis of the dossiers by
the Commission and a panel of independent experts focuses in particular on the methodology of the
project submitted and on the following characteristics of the envisaged initiative to which the project
refers: European dimension; number of Member States actively involved (at least four); multilingual nature

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(at least three languages must be involved); quality and relevance of European and multicultural content;
nature and extent of European audience; strength and transnational nature of
initiative(cid:146)s partners;
innovative nature of the initiative; utilisation of current technological developments for transmission and
dissemination of programmes.

Information requested by means of the application form is used to assess not only the likelihood of the
realisation of the project submitted but also to test the capacity of the applicant to implement effectively
such initiatives, in particular with regard to their potential for financial and technical viability.

The projects financed in 1998 and 1999 are as follows:

Project

Contribution

(€)

Radio Citta(cid:146) del Capo

Radio Popolare di Milano

Cospe

Kinema

72 623

134 046

236 439,98

258 228,50

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WRITTEN QUESTION P-4043/00

by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

(20 December 2000)

Subject: Inspections of game in the Netherlands

The final report of a mission carried out in the Netherlands (6 to 10 March) by the Food and Veterinary
Office notes several major shortcomings concerning inspection of varieties of game. A number of
recommendations are made to improve monitoring and inspections (for example, on p. 12 of the report,
recommendations concerning guarantees of inspection before meat is placed on the market, inspection for
trichinae etc.) The Netherlands was given three months from 10 March 2000 to regularise the inspections.

Can the Commission indicate to what extent the recommendations made in the report have actually

1.
been carried out by the Netherlands?

In the report the Commission announces a follow-up mission by the end of the year. Has this

2.
mission taken place and, if so, what are its findings and when will they be published?

3. Will these findings lead to any further action and, if so, what sort of action?

If the follow-up mission has not yet taken place, why not, given that the serious nature of the

4.
situation involving inspections of game in the Netherlands provides every reason for doing so?

Is the Commission aware of reports to the effect that the Netherlands has still not regularised the

5.
inspections? (1) If so, will this prompt the Commission to have this done as a matter of urgency?

Does the Commission agree that there are major risks in eating game which has not been properly
6.
inspected? What action does the Commission intend to take, at a time when large amounts of game will be
consumed, and what measures does it feel it can take in the immediate future to protect public health and
consumers?

(1)

(cid:145)Het wild is niet altijd even eco(cid:146) (Game is not always environmentally sound), Trouw, 11.12.2000.