Ample supply on EU domestic markets at reasonable prices will also benefit the intermediate and final users of sugar.

7. Notes that intermediaries, online platforms and user interfaces, while facilitating access to content, increasingly have the means to influence diversity; concludes, therefore, that, alongside competition policy and regulatory aspects, the democratic political objective of securing diversity requires special consideration; calls on the Commission to define the terms ‘online platform’ and ‘user interface’, as well as to adjust the role of other intermediaries, without undermining their innovative potential and taking into account their active or passive role; believes that everyone, including providers of online platforms and user i ...[+++]nterfaces, should be subject to the AVMS Directive as far as it concerns an audiovisual media service; underlines, in this regard, the importance of applying rules aimed at enhancing the findability of legal content and information in order to strengthen media freedom, pluralism and independent research, and to guaranteeing the non-discrimination principle, which is essential to safeguard linguistic and cultural diversity;

It also explores how to handle illegal online content (for example hate speech, child abuse content or content that infringes intellectual property rights), how far and in what way online intermediaries should respond, and what duty of care intermediaries may have towards their users.

According to SABAM, Netlog’s social network also enables all users to make use, by means of their profile, of the musical and audio-visual works in SABAM’s repertoire, making those works available to the public in such a way that other users of that network can have access to them without SABAM’s consent and without Netlog paying it any fee.

I do so because the decision and the principles it embodies highlight a crucial distinction between neutral, passive intermediaries, which are not legally responsible for what their users do online, and what have come to be known as the wealth destroyers, those who actively enable mass copyright infringement online.

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