Nor should it apply to collective management organisations which merely aggregate rights in the same works for the purpose of being able to license jointly both the right of reproduction and the right of communication to the public in respect of such works.

Different collective management organisations may manage authors' rights of reproduction and communication to the public.

9. Stresses the urgent need to introduce more extensive administrative rules for the procedure applicable under the current Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, to be adopted on the basis of Article 15 TFEU, with particular regard to codifying the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice and extending the scope of the Regulation to the whole of the EU’s administration; similarly, more effective provisions ought to exist concerning the procedure applicable to the processing of personal data – particularly regar ...[+++]ding implementation of the citizens’ rights guaranteed therein – under the current Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data, to be adopted on the basis of Article 16 TFEU; acknowledges, however, that the regulations mentioned have led to the codification of two areas of general Union administrative law, which has already enabled relatively clear administrative procedures to be introduced, and that the further development of these should build on what has been achieved to date;

This includes the completion of the Single Euro Payments Area, the Commission's proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law, the implementation of the Consumer Rights Directive, the proposal to establish one-stop-shops for the processing of VAT, the proposals to establish alternative dispute resolution (ADR) entities for the resolution of consumer disputes and the EU-wide online platform for cross-border complaints (ODR) and forthcoming initiatives in the area of collective management of copyright and private copying and reprography levies.

The Commission can address this in two ways: by means of further or even full harmonisation, as done recently with the Consumer Rights Directive and as proposed in January 2012 in the General Data Protection Regulation; or by means of optional harmonisation as proposed in October 2011 with the optional Common European Sales Law.

The adequate protection of copyright works and subject matter of related rights protection by rental and lending rights as well as the protection of the subject matter of related rights protection by the fixation right, distribution right, right to broadcast and communication to the public can accordingly be considered as being of fundamental importance for the economic and cultural development of the Community.