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# 92001E2811

**WRITTEN QUESTION E-2811/01 by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission. Artists' recorded performance remuneration.** 
  
*Official Journal 160 E , 04/07/2002 P. 0041 - 0042*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-2811/01

by Bill Miller (PSE) to the Commission

(10 October 2001)

Subject: Artists' recorded performance remuneration

Can the Commission confirm that as part of the agreement reached between the EU and the accession countries in the lead-up to enlargement, there is an aquis which will permit artists to recover the appropriate remuneration whenever a recording they have performed on is broadcast or played in public?

If not, which countries have not agreed and why?

Answer given by Mr Verheugen on behalf of the Commission

(20 November 2001)

All accession countries are obliged to comply with the legal framework on intellectual property in Community law (the acquis communautaire). Council Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property(1) recognises the right of performers and of phonogram producers to obtain an equitable remuneration each time a phonogram,

which has been published for commercial purposes, is broadcast or played in public (Article 8, paragraph 2). Pursuant to the above-mentioned obligation, all accession countries have to introduce a remuneration right for performers according to Article 8, paragraph 2 of the Directive 92/100/EEC.

(1) OJ L 346, 27.11.1992.

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