23.2.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 58/1471 COMMISSION PILOT PROJECTS
CHAPTER PP 07 — INVESTING IN PEOPLE, SOCIAL COHESION AND VALUES (cont'd) PP 07 22
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(cont'd) — provide targeted and tailored support to independent local, regional media and community media in already existing or soon to become ‘news deserts’.
The support should focus on or include the adoption of new technologies such as AI, data and similar by local, regional and community media, for which the sector is still not comprehensively equipped.
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2023
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Pilot project — Citizen facing European TV and Video News Portal for Streaming, Search and Translation of European TV and video news and political documentaries produced or transmitted by accredited public and private media in Member States
Figures (Differentiated appropriations) Appropriations 2023 Commitments
2 500 000
Appropriations 2022
Payments
Commitments
Payments
Outturn 2021 Commitments
Payments
625 000
Remarks
A functioning public sphere is essential for every democracy.
Currently, however, a few powerful corporations based outside Europe dominate the digital public sphere in Europe.
The pilot project ‘Citizen-facing European TV and Video News Portal’ aims to contribute to a functioning public sphere, which uniquely equips citizens with a Europe-wide accessible video streaming platform and single access point for high-quality news and documentaries - in line with European values and necessary to participate in European democracy, across borders and in their own Member State.
For this purpose, it will create a single streaming platform for TV and video news content, directly accessible to European audiences and citizens, allowing them to search all content provided by public and private registered media in Member States and providing translated subtitles in all EU languages of that news and those documentaries.
The Citizen-facing TV and Video News Portal will not be a TV station, but a neutral platform in the fundamental sense of the word.
Therefore, it will not provide editorial services and will be purely infrastructure and technology oriented, as the content to be streamed on the Portal will be provided by the rich and varied own productions of news and documentaries from the many registered media in the Member States.
For this purpose, it will seek to establish a technology alliance and a content alliance among interested media actors in Member States.
While there is a number of Union actions aimed at enhancing editorial capacities and content-creation, this PP seeks to address another angle.
The Portal will face citizens and be neutral in the sense that it will not take any editorial decisions on content provided by Member State public and private accredited media.
User generated and independent producers’ content will be available on the platform from the outset, insofar as such content has previously been transmitted by public or private accredited media in the Union.
As a second stage, procedures and rules should be designed and tested to enable content from independent creators and user generated content (UGC) to be directly added to the Portal, while maintaining the principle that no editorial control is carried out by the Portal.
This principle is key to ensuring the Portal’s quality, reliability and independence, as well as its neutrality Accredited Content will only be excluded from transmission over the Portal if it does not comply with the principles relating to Union values and the necessary mechanisms to safeguard content independence will be put in place.