35. Notes that the rights trading market operates largely within national boundaries or linguistic areas so as to respect media chronology (release and broadcasting) and exploit cinematographical and audiovisual works in an appropriate manner; notes, further, however, that this frequently makes it impossible lawfully to access protected satellite TV channels originating from another Member State; welcomes the Commission's commitment to address this problem in its review of the Directive concerning copyright related to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission;

The large majority of stakeholders were in favour of the status quo in relation to the media chronology established in Article 7.

Media chronology (Article 7 of the TVWF Directive)

32. Shares the Commission"s opinion on the issue of media chronology and on-line rights;

In line with Article 151 (4) of the Treaty, which imposes an obligation on the Community to take cultural aspects into account in its action under other provisions of the Treaty with a view to respecting and promoting cultural diversity [77], the dual objective of promoting cultural diversity and the competitiveness of the European programme industry finds its concrete expression in a series of measures in favour of the distribution and production of European television programmes contained in the "television without frontiers" Directive This mechanism, which is linked to complementary financial support mechanisms such as the Media programme, is based on the provisions contained in Chapter III of the "television without frontiers" Directive ...[+++]: Article 4 (promotion of European works), Article 5 (promotion of European works by independent producers), Article 6 (definition of "European works"), Article 7 (chronology for broadcasting cinematographic works) and Article 9 (exemption of local television broadcasts not forming part of a national network).

10. Calls on the Commission to apply the principles of good governance to the preparation of its legislative proposals, by devising an internal procedure which will ensure that the subsidiarity principle is respected before any proposal for new regulatory measures is drawn up, and by keeping a chronological record of procedures in order to reduce the time they take;