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Day: 8 June 2016

Proposal for a regulation of the cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market – guarantee of quality and scope of service

Published 8th June 2016

In order to ensure the cross-border portability of online content services it is necessary to require providers of online content services which are provided against payment of money to enable their subscribers to use the service in the Member State of their temporary presence by providing them access to the same content on the same range and number of devices, for the same number of users and with the same range of functionalities as those offered in their Member State of residence.

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Motion for and European Parliament resolution on ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty

Published 8th June 2016

Having regard to the petitions from EU citizens with print disabilities, and particularly Petition 924/2011 by Dan Pescod (British), on behalf of the European Blind Union (EBU)/Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), on access by blind people to books and other printed products and whereas the World Health Organisation estimated in 2010 that across Europe there are 2 550 000 blind people and 23 800 000 partially sighted people, giving a total of 26 350 000 visually impaired individuals and whereas only 5% of all published books in the developed countries and less than 1% in the developing countries are ever produced in accessible formats.

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The objective of proposed regulation of cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market

Published 8th June 2016

The objective of Regulation (official document) is to adapt the harmonised legal framework on copyright and related rights and to provide a common approach to the provision of online content services to subscribers temporarily present in Member States other than their Member State of residence, in order to ensure that the present barriers to cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market no longer exist.

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