I want to talk to you about Baton and CTV. I am mad about the fact that I'm seeing mergers occurring and small communities are losing out in terms of their local broadcasting.

The first of these changes, because we are discussing small properties, would be to make the idea of a reasonable expectation of making a profit more understandable when we are working on a small scale.

In particular, the Commission recommends stepping up the fight against counterfeiting and piracy, including at international level. It also recommends facilitating access for inventors, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to industrial property rights in order to promote innovation and investment in research and development.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) frequently decide not to take advantage of industrial property rights, particularly because of the high cost of obtaining them.

(a)sharing, fusing and analysing information available in ship reporting systems and other information systems hosted by or accessible to those agencies, in accordance with their respective legal bases and without prejudice to the ownership of data by Member States.

The forestry sector already has an important impact - both direct and indirect - on employment, especially in rural areas. The further development of the EU's forestry sector is therefore vitally important. According to the ESC, this is best done by promoting production in the sector - especially of timber and wood-based products - with a view to increasing the EU's self-sufficiency in these products; by ensuring fair competition in the internal and world markets and by introducing new instruments, such as certification, aimed at promoting forest conservation and the preservation of small forest holdings.