At a Hearing in the European Parliament, attended by FEB Chairman & Lobbyist, Harvey Thomas, the European Commission agreed to revise its Communication on Broadcasting. “The protest has helped”, said Ruth Hieronymi MEP, after the Hearing on future financing of Public Radio Stations. Director-General Philip Lowe has supported the key demand that public broadcasting cannot be evaluated only on the basis of competition law.

Head of Netherlands Broadcasters – Henk Hagoort – and Vincent Porter of the European Alliance of Listeners and Viewers Association (EURALVA) supported by other Participants, stressed the need to make few new Regulations but to aim to ensure values and minimum standards are used Europe-wide.

Members of Parliament and the Commission agreed:

that public radio stations may broadcast both conventional and new services on a “technologically-neutral” basis and via all existing platforms; that “market failure ” of private stations shall not be sufficient by itself to define the mandate for new services provided by public broadcasting.

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