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Each year the question of the audio-visual licence fee comes up for public debate. Although the Government at one time was considering abolishing this indirect tax which, together with advertising, constitutes the main source of income for the public audio-visual sector, it is currently looking into ways of improving its yield so as to increase the two billion euros it produces. The financial requirements of the public audio-visual sector in 2004 could in fact require an increase in the 3% allocation. The MP Patrice Martin-Lalande has been entrusted with a "mission of evaluation and control" (MEC)...

The Minister for Culture and Communication did not wait until the International Film Festival in Cannes before presenting to the Cabinet on 30 April a communication on policy beneficial to the cinema. In a follow up to the Leclerc Report (see IRIS 2003-3: 14), the Minister announced a number of measures intended to "diversify and perpetuate sources of financing for the cinema and contribute to increasing the number of works being filmed in France". For this, the video sector and also the regional authorities will take over the financing of cinematographic production arising out of television....

The "Television without Frontiers" Directive is currently under re-examination and, in accordance with its Article 26, the Commission has embarked on three assessment studies on the text and is now commencing public consultation intended to examine "application of the Directive and, if appropriate, to draw up new proposals with a view to its adaptation to developments in the field of television broadcasting, particularly in the light of recent technological developments". The consultation covers the main sensitive areas of the Directive ­ promotion of European works, advertising, protection of...

The Government, which wished to add two points to the preliminary bill on electronic communications (see IRIS 2003-5: 15) ­ extension of the powers of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (audio-visual regulatory body ­ CSA) in terms of the economic regulation of the audio-visual sector and support for the development of local television stations ­ revealed on 14 May 2003 the additional provisions on these points. Firstly, the CSA would be given the power to settle disputes between editors and distributors of services. Previously, the CSA only had such power in matters concerning the distribution...

After the candidates applying for permission to broadcast digital terrestrial channels in France had been chosen in a bidding process in October 2002, and the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel(the High Council for audiovisual, CSA) had started negotiating with these candidates concerning the licensing conditions, on 6 May 2003 the CSA announced that 23 corporations had finally been given licences. In addition, at the end of May 2003 consultations were held about the composition of the multiplexers that are available for digital terrestrial broadcasting. Lastly, the public service broadcasters...