Council Resolution of 24 November 2003 on the deposit of cinematographic works in the European Union
Date: 2003-11-24
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: cultural cooperation, film production, heritage protection

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COUNCIL RESOLUTION

of 24 November 2003

on the deposit of cinematographic works in the European Union

(2003/C 295/03)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

compulsory deposit for all cinematographic works, or at least
for those that have received public support;

Whereas:

(1) The Council Resolution of 26 June 2000 (1) on the Conser-
vation and enhancement of European cinema heritage calls
on Member States to cooperate in the restoration and
conservation of
through
heritage
good
technologies,
recourse
practice in this sector, to encourage progressive networking
of European archival data and to consider the possible use
of these collections for educational purposes;

including
to exchange

to digital

cinema

(2) The Commission Communication on certain legal aspects
relating to cinematographic and other audiovisual works (2)
examined the legal deposit of audiovisual works at the
level as one of possible ways of
national or regional
conserving and safeguarding the European audiovisual
heritage and launched a stocktaking exercise of
the
situation of deposit of cinematographic works in Member
States, candidate countries and EFTA countries;

(3) The Council (Cultural/Audiovisual affairs) at its meeting of
5 November 2001 welcomed the
the
Commission Communication and the approach taken by
the Commission;

content of

(4) The European Parliament, in its Report on the Commission
Communication on cinema of 5 June 2002, also underlined
the
cinematographic
heritage.

safeguarding the

importance of

the Council of Europe Convention for
the Audiovisual Heritage requires

the
RECALLS that
its State
protection of
to ‘introduce, by legislative or other appropriate
Parties
the obligation to deposit moving image material
means,
its audiovisual heritage and having been
forming part of
in its territory. The Convention,
produced or co-produced’
that also calls
for voluntary deposit of moving image
material forming part of its audiovisual heritage as well as
ancillary material, was open for signature on 8 November
2001 and has been signed by 4 EU Member States;

TAKES NOTE that the Commission stocktaking exercise shows
that at least two-thirds of Member States have a system of

REAFFIRMS that European cinematographic works are an
essential manifestation of
the
European cultures and that they constitute a heritage that has
to be conserved and safeguarded for future generations;

the richness and diversity of

STRESSES that European cinematographic works forming part
of Member States' audiovisual heritage shall be systematically
deposited in national, regional or other archives, in order to
ensure their preservation;

INVITES THE MEMBER STATES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF
THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO:

1. Put in place efficient systems of deposit and preservation of
the cinematographic works forming part of their audiovisual
heritage in their national archives, film institutes or similar
institutions, if such systems do not yet exist. The systems
should cover national cinematographic works as far as prac-
ticable, or at least, those cinematographic works that have
received public support at national and/or Community level.
The systems could be based on a legal or contractual obli-
gation, or on other measures having the same effect in
terms of preserving the cinematographic heritage.

2. Provide for

the possibility of educational, cultural or
research use, or other non-commercial use of
similar
nature, of deposited cinematographic works, in all cases in
compliance with copyright and related rights.

3. Exchange good practice and co-operate with each other in

this area;

INVITES THE COMMISSION TO:

1. Consider possible ways to develop further cooperation
between Member States in this field in accordance with
the
Community,
the
concerning for example:

establishing

European

Treaty

(1) OJ C 193, 11.7.2000.
(2) Doc. 12258/01 AUDIO 32, COM(2001) 534 final, 26.9.2001.

— the exchange of information on deposit and preservation

of important European films,

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— the

encouragement of

cooperation between film

— the taking into account of film heritage in actions and

archives,

initiatives to promote media literacy.

— the improvement of coordination of inventories of film

collections,

— the increase of young persons' knowledge of European

cinematographic heritage,

2. Continue the exchange of experiences and best practices
from Member States
in the group of cinema experts
already established by it, and report to the Council on the
progress achieved.

COUNCIL RESOLUTION

of 25 November 2003

on common objectives for participation by and information for young people

(2003/C 295/04)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REPRESEN-
TATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES,
MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,

CONCERNING PARTICIPATION to develop participation by young
people, by introducing and supporting action to encourage
them to exercise their citizenship actively and by enhancing
their effective participation in democratic life:

Whereas:

(1) The Commission White Paper entitled ‘A new impetus for
European youth’ presented on 21 November 2001 sets out
a new framework for European cooperation on youth
affairs.

(2) In its conclusions of 14 February 2002 the Council
(Education and Youth) recognised the White Paper as the
starting point for the establishment of a framework for
European cooperation on youth affairs.

adopted the open method of

(3) When it established a new framework for cooperation in
in its Resolution of 27 June 2002, the
the youth field,
Council
coordination,
calling in particular on the Council to establish, taking
into account a Commission draft, the common objectives
and a timetable for follow-up reports from the Member
States for each priority, as appropriate.
It also stressed
that those policies and initiatives that affect the young
people both at national and at European level take into
consideration matters such as the needs, the situation, the
living conditions and the expectations of youth.

(4) Further to the consultations carried out under the open
method of coordination, the Commission communication
[COM(2003) 184 final] of 11 April 2003 proposed a set of
common objectives for participation by and information
for young people,

NOTE that
importance of
information for young people,

the Council of 5 May 2003 confirmed the
and
the priorities of participation by

AGREE the following common objectives for developing these
priorities,

1.

increase the participation by young people in the civic life
of their community;

2.

increase participation by young people in the system of
representative democracy;

3. greater support for various forms of learning to participate,

CONCERNING INFORMATION to develop information for young
people, by improving access for young people to information
in order to increase their participation in public life and
facilitate the realisation of their potential as active, responsible
citizens:

1.

improve access for young people to information services;

2.

increase provision of quality information;

3.

participation

increase
youth
information, for example, in the preparation and dissemi-
nation of information.

people

young

by

in

A non-exhaustive list of the possible lines of action for the
above common objectives is set out in the annex hereto,

THE IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW-UP OF THE COMMON
OBJECTIVES:

RECALL that implementation must be flexible, incremental and
appropriate for the youth field, must respect the powers of the
Member States and the principle of subsidiarity,