Media Freedom and Pluralism

The need for transparency, freedom and diversity in Europe's media landscape.

Freedom and pluralism of the media, including independent media governance, are key elements for enabling the exercise of freedom of expression, which constitutes one of the essential foundations of the European Union.

The European Union's commitment to respect freedom and pluralism of the media, as well as the right to information and freedom of expression is enshrined in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights [1], similar to the provision of Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms [2].

EU action:

The High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism [3] has been established to advise and provide recommendations for the respect, protection, support and promotion of media freedom and pluralism in Europe. Its Final Report [4] is available here in English [4], French [5] and German [6].
SEE ALSO: Public consultations on the independence of the audiovisual regulatory bodies and on the Independent Report from the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism [7]
Period of consultation: from 22/03/2013 to 14/06/2013
The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom [8] was initiated within the European University Institute of Florence to reflect and advise on the underlying issues. A policy report on "European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom" was published on 6th February 2013. The Policy_Report [9] is available here.
An independent study on indicators for media pluralism in the EU Member States [10] was commissioned to define and test concrete and objective indicators for assessing media pluralism in the EU Member States. The results, including the Media Pluralism Monitor, are available here [10].
The European Commission services published a working paper outlining efforts to promote pluralism by third parties and organisations, notably the essential work undertaken by the Council of Europe. This contains a concise first survey of Member States' audiovisual and print media markets - Staff Working Paper on Media Pluralism [11]

Tags:

pluralism [12]
freedom [13]
media [14]

Newsroom [15]

Press Releases [16]

Internet on TV, TV on Internet [17]
(24/04/2013)
Media Freedom, pluralism and media regulator independence [18]
(22/03/2013)
Safeguarding media freedom and pluralism [19]
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 22/03/2013)

Funding opportunities [20]

Call for tenders: Support Services for the Public Sector Information and Open Data policy (divided in two Lots) - SMART 2012/0107 [21]
(03/08/2012)
Call for tenders: Study on European Internet traffic: monitoring tools and analysis [22]
(13/07/2012)
Call for tenders: Study on social innovation in Digital Agenda - SMART 2012/0049 [23]
(10/07/2012)

Publications [24]

Report/Study: Executive summary of the BRAID project - Bridging Research in Ageing and Information and Communication Technology Development [25]
(27/06/2012)
Policy/Legislation: Study on the implementation of the provisions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive concerning the promotion of European works in audiovisual media services. [26]
(07/05/2012)
Report/Study: Key specifications for interoperability developed by the EU’s Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administration (ISA) Programme to become W3C standards [27]
(30/03/2012)

Audiovisual [28]

Borderless eGovernment - Poznan 2011 (Video on YouTube) [29]
(01/03/2012)
Healthier ageing is just a click away [30]
(27/01/2012)
New Clip on the MEDIA Programme launched [31]
(15/02/2010)

Speeches [32]

The Future of Media [33]
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 23/04/2013)
Protecting a free media in Azerbaijan [34]
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 07/11/2012)
Helping European films thrive [35]
(Neelie Kroes Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 09/10/2012)

News [36]

Bericht der Hochrangigen Gruppe für Medienfreiheit und Medienvielfalt - Erinnerung: Anhörung endet am 14. Juni 2013 [37]
(31/05/2013)
Rapport du groupe de haut niveau sur la liberté et le pluralisme des médias – Rappel: la consultation publique sera clôturée le 14 juin 2013 [38]
(31/05/2013)
First report on promotion of European works (TV and on-demand) [39]
(25/09/2012)

Research results [40]

Communicate with the future [41]
(19/06/2012)
Independent ageing: support from interdependent ICT [42]
(06/06/2012)
Digitising our cultural heritage [43]
(30/05/2012)