Council Decision of 20 December 2000 on the implementation of a programme to encourage the development, distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works (MEDIA Plus — Development, Distribution and Promotion) (2001-2005) (2000/821/EC)

[X1 Article 3 U.K. Specific objectives of the Programme in the fields of distribution and dissemination

In the fields of distribution and dissemination, the specific objectives of the Programme shall be as follows:

(a)

to strengthen the European distribution sector in the field of cinema by encouraging distributors to invest in the production, acquisition, marketing and promotion of non-domestic European cinema films;

(b)

to foster the wider transnational dissemination of non-domestic European films, on the European and international markets, through incentives to stimulate their distribution and their screening in cinemas, inter alia by encouraging coordinated marketing strategies;

(c)

to strengthen the distribution sector for European works on media intended for private use, by encouraging distributors to invest in digital technology and in the promotion of non-domestic European works;

(d)

to promote the movement, in the Community and outside it, of European television programmes produced by independent companies by encouraging cooperation between broadcasters, on one hand, and independent European distributors and producers, on the other hand;

(e)

to encourage the creation of catalogues of European works in digital format intended for exploitation on new media;

(f)

to support the linguistic diversity of European audiovisual and cinematographic works.]

Editorial Information

X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Council Decision 2000/821/EC of 20 December 2000 on the implementation of a programme to encourage the development, distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works (MEDIA Plus — Development, Distribution and Promotion) (2001-2005) (Official Journal of the European Communities L 336 of 30 December 2000).