Position Papers Archive

Commercial communication (including restrictions on advertising)

EPC response to the public consultation on the future of the InternalMarket Communication from the Commission(also in PDF) (July 2006)

Proposal for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market (COM 2004/2)

Policy Statement – Freedom of Commercial Communication. Prepared by the ICC Commission on Marketing and Advertising (PDF file)
(download as Word document)

Letter to President Prodi and Secretary General O’Sullivan concerning the regulations on advertising in the food and beverage industry

EPC slams Commission for media censorship proposal (July 2003)

Sales Promotion letter to MEPs(August 2002)

Tobacco – joint industry position (08 April 2002)

Commission consultation on “An Internal Market Strategy for Services” – contribution from the European Publishers’ Council (01 June 2001)

Finding new ways to regulate advertising and other forms of commercial communications in the age of on-line communications

Briefing for members of the European Parliament on the draft directive to ban all tobacco advertising and sponsorship

Tobacco advertising

Tobacco advertising ban – letter to Byrne (10 October 2000)

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Competition policy


EPC response to the public consultation on the future of the Internal Market Communication from the Commission
(also in PDF) (July 2006)

Joint call for postal liberalisation (published in the EuropeanVoice):”CallontheEuropeanInstitutionstomaintain 2009as a final date forliberalisation of the postal sector in the EU” (PDF file) (31 May2006)

Memorandum onPluralismand Media Concentration addressed to the members of the EuropeanParliament’s Intergroup on the Press, Communication and Freedom (March 2005)

Safeguarding the future of the European Audiovisual Market – a white paper on the financing and regulation of publicly funded broadcasters (March 2004)

Media industry sets out market distortions and calls for rigorous application of state aid rules to publicly-funded broadcasters (PDFfile) (March 2004)

Speech by Commissioner Mario Monti:”Policy market definition as a cornerstone of EU competition policy” (October 2001)

Ad Hoc Alliance against unfair competition in the TV and new services markets (December 1998)

Protocol to the Amsterdam Treaty June 1997 on public service broadcasting Informal comments by UNICE’s working group on State Aid

Amendment of the Transparency Directive

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Consumer protection

Letter to Byrne in response to the Green Paper

Follow-up communication to the Green Paper on EU Consumer Protection (PDF file) (June 2002)

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Content online

EPC response to the Commission consultation on content online (PDF
file) (13 October 2006)

Harnessing the Full Potential of the Digital Economy – Comments from the Creative and Media Business Alliance on the European Commission’s i2010 Communication

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Convergence

Memorandum to the Economic and Social Committee on pluralism and media concentration

Comments addressed to DG XIII for consideration in the preparation of the Green Paper on Convergence

Newspaper and magazine publishers’declaration on the rights of the content providers of Europe’s information industry

Convergence of broadcasting,information technology and telecommunications. Response to Green Paper from the European Publishers Council

The Information Society Forum’sFirst Annual Report: A critique (March 1997)

Response of the European Publishers Council to the Green Paper on the convergence of the telecommunications, media and information technology sectors and the implications for regulation (April 1998)

Newspaper and Magazine Publishers’ Declaration on the Rights of the Content Providers of Europe’s Information Industry

 

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Copyright and the creative industries

Content sector common submission on the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (PDF file) (28 November 2008)

iComp Seminar, Brussels: IP Issues and their Impact on Internet Commerce – speech by Angela Mills Wade (PDF file) (23 October 2008)

Comments of the European Publishers Council on the Second Call for Comments: ‘Fair Compensation for Acts of Private Copying’ (PDF file) (18 April 2008)


EPC letter: Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property – Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions (“the Consultation”) (PDF file) (15 April 2008)

Comments of the European Publishers Council on Communication from the Commission on Creative Content Online in the Single Market (PDF file) (29 February 2008)

EPC response: Public consultation on the Review of EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services (PDF file) (27 October 2006)

ACAP: A general briefing paper (PDF file) (05 October 2006)

Letter to Mr Shaun Woodward MP, following the Creative Economy Programme Publishing Summit on 4 September 2006 (11 September 2006)

Response from the European Publishers Council to the first evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (10 March 2006)

EPC response: i2010 – Digital Libraries (including Questions for online consultation 30.09.2005) (PDF file) (20 January 2006)

Réponse du Conseil européen des éditeurs (EPC): i2010 : Bibliothèques numériques (dont Questions aux fins de la consultation en ligne du 30.09.2005) (Fichier PDF en Français) (20 janvier 2006)

Harnessing the Full Potential of the Digital Economy – Comments from the Creative and Media Business Alliance on the European Commission’s i2010 Communication

Response from the European Publishers Council to the communication from the Commission draft evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (09 August 2005)

Letter to Madame Fourtou concerning Article 21(07 October 2003)

Rightholders’ Coalition: “Copyright – root of Europe’s cultural heritage;key to its cultural future” (30 June 1998)

Response to the European Commission Green Paper on Public Sector Information in the Information Society

Copyright and the publisher

Position Paper on the Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive (97/0359 COD) on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the Information Society


Proposals for a revision of the “Television without Frontiers” Directive. Consultation on issues papers 2nd September 2005


“Television without Frontiers” Commission consultation – European Publishers’ Council response (July 2003)

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VAT harmonization


Letter to Commissioner Bolkestein on VAT (June 2003)


VAT statement addressed to the Romanian Government: “Don’t tax literacy, information, education and opinion”

 

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