Subtitling of all public service television programmes in the EU#Declaration of the European Parliament on the subtitling of all public service television programmes in the EU
Date: 2008-04-10
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: access to education, access to information, audiovisual production, audiovisual programme, facilities for people with disabilities, integration of people with disabilities








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15.10.2009   


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Official Journal of the European Union


CE 247/48





Thursday 10 April 2008Subtitling of all public service television programmes in the EU
P6_TA(2008)0127
Declaration of the European Parliament on the subtitling of all public service television programmes in the EU
2009/C 247 E/09

The European Parliament,
having regard to Articles 3, 13, 149 and 151 of the EC Treaty,
having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,






A.


whereas the European Union should ensure that citizens have equal access to information, education and culture,










B.


whereas partial or complete loss of hearing is a condition that affects more than 83 million people in Europe; whereas, given the ageing of the European population, this problem will continue to grow,










C.


whereas access to television in Europe is universal; whereas public service television has a public service mission consisting, among other things, in informing and educating viewers,










D.


whereas today's technology enables television programmes (including live programmes) to be subtitled as they go out, one example of this being programmes broadcast by the BBC, which has undertaken to subtitle all of its programmes from April 2008,










1.


Considers the subtitling of all public service television programmes in the European Union to be essential with a view to ensuring that all viewers, including deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, have full access to them; takes the view that this would also help with foreign-language learning;










2.


Calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal requiring public service television broadcasters in the European Union to subtitle all of their programmes;










3.


Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.




List of signatories






 


Gabriele Albertini, Jan Andersson, Alfonso Andria, Emmanouil Angelakas, Roberta Angelilli, Kader Arif, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Robert Atkins, John Attard-Montalto, Elspeth Attwooll, Inés Ayala Sender, Liam Aylward, Peter Baco, Maria Badia i Cutchet, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Enrique Barón Crespo, Katerina Batzeli, Edit Bauer, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Christopher Beazley, Zsolt László Becsey, Irena Belohorská, Monika Beňová, Rolf Berend, Sergio Berlato, Giovanni Berlinguer, Thijs Berman, Adam Bielan, Slavi Binev, Šarūnas Birutis, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Herbert Bösch, Jens-Peter Bonde, Vito Bonsignore, Josep Borrell Fontelles, Victor Boștinaru, Costas Botopoulos, Bernadette Bourzai, Sharon Bowles, Iles Braghetto, Mihael Brejc, Frieda Brepoels, Jan Březina, Elmar Brok, Danutė Budreikaitė, Wolfgang Bulfon, Nicodim Bulzesc, Ieke van den Burg, Niels Busk, Philippe Busquin, Jerzy Buzek, Joan Calabuig Rull, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Marco Cappato, Carlos Carnero González, Paulo Casaca, Michael Cashman, Carlo Casini, Françoise Castex, Alejandro Cercas, Giles Chichester, Giulietto Chiesa, Zdzisław Kazimierz Chmielewski, Ole Christensen, Sylwester Chruszcz, Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Giovanna Corda, Titus Corlățean, Paolo Costa, Jean Louis Cottigny, Michael Cramer, Corina Crețu, Gabriela Crețu, Brian Crowley, Magor Imre Csibi, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Daniel Dăianu, Dragoș Florin David, Chris Davies, Antonio De Blasio, Véronique De Keyser, Panayiotis Demetriou, Gérard Deprez, Proinsias De Rossa, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Harlem Désir, Nirj Deva, Mia De Vits, Jolanta Dičkutė, Alexandra Dobolyi, Valdis Dombrovskis, Beniamino Donnici, Bert Doorn, Brigitte Douay, Avril Doyle, Mojca Drčar Murko, Petr Duchoň, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Cristian Dumitrescu, Saïd El Khadraoui, Edite Estrela, Harald Ettl, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Göran Färm, Richard Falbr, Claudio Fava, Szabolcs Fazakas, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Anne Ferreira, Elisa Ferreira, Ilda Figueiredo, Petru Filip, Věra Flasarová, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Nicole Fontaine, Glyn Ford, Brigitte Fouré, Armando França, Monica Frassoni, Urszula Gacek, Milan Gaľa, Gerardo Galeote, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Iratxe García Pérez, Giuseppe Gargani, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Jas Gawronski, Evelyne Gebhardt, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Bronisław Geremek, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Claire Gibault, Adam Gierek, Maciej Marian Giertych, Neena Gill, Norbert Glante, Robert Goebbels, Bogdan Golik, Ana Maria Gomes, Donata Gottardi, Hélène Goudin, Genowefa Grabowska, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Vasco Graça Moura, Ingeborg Gräßle, Louis Grech, Lilli Gruber, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Umberto Guidoni, Zita Gurmai, Catherine Guy-Quint, Klaus Hänsch, Benoît Hamon, Małgorzata Handzlik, Gábor Harangozó, Marian Harkin, Rebecca Harms, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Satu Hassi, Jutta Haug, Anna Hedh, Gyula Hegyi, Edit Herczog, Jim Higgins, Krzysztof Hołowczyc, Mary Honeyball, Milan Horáček, Richard Howitt, Ján Hudacký, Alain Hutchinson, Iliana Malinova Iotova, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Marie Anne Isler Béguin, Lily Jacobs, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Stanisław Jałowiecki, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Lívia Járóka, Anne E. Jensen, Karin Jöns, Dan Jørgensen, Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison, Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Gisela Kallenbach, Othmar Karas, Sajjad Karim, Ioannis Kasoulides, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Tunne Kelam, Glenys Kinnock, Evgeni Kirilov, Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Jaromír Kohlíček, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Miloš Koterec, Sergej Kozlík, Guntars Krasts, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Constanze Angela Krehl, Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Helmut Kuhne, Jan Jerzy Kułakowski, Aldis Kušķis, Sepp Kusstatscher, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Alain Lamassoure, Stavros Lambrinidis, Vytautas Landsbergis, Henrik Lax, Roselyne Lefrançois, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Lasse Lehtinen, Jörg Leichtfried, Jo Leinen, Katalin Lévai, Janusz Lewandowski, Bogusław Liberadzki, Marcin Libicki, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Andrea Losco, Caroline Lucas, Astrid Lulling, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Linda McAvan, Mary Lou McDonald, Mairead McGuinness, Edward McMillan-Scott, Jamila Madeira, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Vladimír Maňka, Erika Mann, Mario Mantovani, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Helmuth Markov, Sérgio Marques, David Martin, Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Jiří Maštálka, Maria Matsouka, Mario Mauro, Manolis Mavrommatis, Manuel Medina Ortega, Erik Meijer, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Willy Meyer Pleite, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Marianne Mikko, Miroslav Mikolášik, Viktória Mohácsi, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Luisa Morgantini, Jan Mulder, Roberto Musacchio, Cristiana Muscardini, Joseph Muscat, Riitta Myller, Pasqualina Napoletano, Hartmut Nassauer, Robert Navarro, Cătălin-Ioan Nechifor, Catherine Neris, James Nicholson, null Nicholson of Winterbourne, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Ljudmila Novak, Raimon Obiols i Germà, Vural Öger, Cem Özdemir, Jan Olbrycht, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Reino Paasilinna, Borut Pahor, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Atanas Paparizov, Georgios Papastamkos, Ioan Mircea Pașcu, Vincent Peillon, Maria Petre, Rihards Pīks, Józef Pinior, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Paweł Bartłomiej Piskorski, Gianni Pittella, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Zita Pleštinská, Rovana Plumb, Guido Podestà, Anni Podimata, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Samuli Pohjamo, Bernard Poignant, Lydie Polfer, Bernd Posselt, Christa Prets, Pierre Pribetich, Jacek Protasiewicz, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Miloslav Ransdorf, Vladimír Remek, Karin Resetarits, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Giovanni Rivera, Bogusław Rogalski, Zuzana Roithová, Luca Romagnoli, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Dariusz Rosati, Wojciech Roszkowski, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Mechtild Rothe, Libor Rouček, Martine Roure, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Guido Sacconi, Aloyzas Sakalas, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, María Isabel Salinas García, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Manuel António dos Santos, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Christel Schaldemose, Karin Scheele, Olle Schmidt, György Schöpflin, Jürgen Schröder, Inger Segelström, Esko Seppänen, Adrian Severin, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Kathy Sinnott, Marek Siwiec, Csaba Sógor, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Bogusław Sonik, María Sornosa Martínez, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Bart Staes, Grażyna Staniszewska, Dirk Sterckx, Struan Stevenson, Catherine Stihler, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Margie Sudre, László Surján, Eva-Britt Svensson, Hannes Swoboda, József Szájer, Andrzej Jan Szejna, Konrad Szymański, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Antonio Tajani, Hannu Takkula, Charles Tannock, Andres Tarand, Britta Thomsen, Marianne Thyssen, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Gary Titley, Patrizia Toia, László Tőkés, Ewa Tomaszewska, Witold Tomczak, Jacques Toubon, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Vladimir Urutchev, Inese Vaidere, Nikolaos Vakalis, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco, Frank Vanhecke, Anne Van Lancker, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Yannick Vaugrenard, Armando Veneto, Riccardo Ventre, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, Bernadette Vergnaud, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Kristian Vigenin, Oldřich Vlasák, Johannes Voggenhuber, Diana Wallis, Graham Watson, Renate Weber, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Glenis Willmott, Janusz Wojciechowski, Francis Wurtz, Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García, Anna Záborská, Zbigniew Zaleski, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Stefano Zappalà, Tomáš Zatloukal, Tatjana Ždanoka, Roberts Zīle, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka