Doc. 9426
25 April 2002
Poland needs media pluralism
Written Declaration No. 338
This written declaration commits only the members who have signed it |
The undersigned, members of the Assembly,
1. Perturbed by the untrue information contained in Doc. 9419 (Written Declaration No. …), wish to explain the following:
i. on the Polish media market a real threat to the diversity of opinions has emerged, due to the one–sided concentration of press titles, radio and television stations. The attempt to counteract this has met with a campaign against the draft law proposed by the government to maintain the proportions between the culture and education functions of the public media and the commercial media;
ii. the public media in Poland are not dependent on the ruling parties. The National Broadcasting Council is elected by the parliament and by the president;
iii. the proposed solutions, which are intended to prevent the concentration of capital in the media, are comparable to or less restrictive than existing standards. In Poland, owing to technical reasons, only two television stations and three radio broadcasters with national coverage can operate;
2. Express their bewilderment that the respective Written Declaration has been signed by some members of the Assembly who are not acquainted with the above–mentioned draft law, which has just been submitted to the Polish parliament and has not yet assumed its final form.
Signed (see overleaf)
Signed : 1
Iwiński, Poland, SOC
Akçali, Turkey, EDG
Akselsen, Norway, SOC
Behrendt, Germany, SOC
Van den Brande, Belgium, PPE
Bušić, Croatia, EPP
Cilevičs, Latvia, SOC
Clerfayt, Belgium, LDR
Dmitrijevas, Lithuania, SOC
Dreyfus-Schmidt, France, SOC
Einarsson, Sweden, UEL
Gatterer, Austria, EPP
Gierek, Poland, SOC
Gross, Switzerland, SOC
Grzesik, Poland, EPP
Jaskierna, Poland, SOC
Judd, United Kingdom, SOC
Kilclooney, United Kingdom, EPP
Kirilov, Bulgaria, SOC
Laakso, Finland, UEL
Małachowski, Poland, SOC
Mutman, Turkey, SOC
Oliverio, Italy, SOC
Pavlidis, Greece, EPP
Podgórski, Poland, SOC
Prisăcaru, Romania, SOC
Rakhansky, Ukraine, UEL
Rogozin, Russia, EDG
Slutsky, Russia, SOC
Stepová, Czech Republic, SOC
Timmermans J., Belgium, SOC
Weiss, Slovakia, SOC
Yáñez-Barnuevo, Spain, SOC
Zwerver, Netherlands, SOC
_____________
Total = 34
1 SOC: Socialist Group
EPP: Group of the European People’s Party
EDG: European Democratic Group
LDR: Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group
UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
NR: not registered in a group