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EMMA AND ENPA WELCOME PLANS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN ITS DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TO WORK ON EX- ANTE ASYMMETRICAL REGULATION FOR LARGE PLATFORMS WITH SIGNIFICANT NETWORK EFFECTS

EMMA and ENPA welcome in today’s Commission communication on Shaping Europe’s digital future (COM (2020), 67 final) the announcement of the Commission plans to work on ex-ante regulation to ensure that markets characterised by large platforms with significant network effects acting as gate-keepers, remain fair and contestable for innovators, businesses, and new market entrants.<br /> <br /> EMMA and ENPA call on the Commission to work in the coming months on a separate asymmetric instrument with ex-ante rules in line with the EMMA and ENPA recommendations on regulation of market-dominant platforms (EMMA ENPA catalogue of demands on regulation of market dominant platforms).

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EMMA and ENPA welcome von der Leyen Commission

EMMA and ENPA welcome the democratic vote cast today for the investiture of the von der Leyen Commission by the European Parliament. We thank the Juncker Commission for all the support and historical achievements in their constant efforts to maintain and uphold the free democratic press sector in the European Union.

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Ministers of Culture raise their voices against abusive practices led by dominant platforms in the implementation of the publishers’ right

EMMA-ENPA hosted an informal exchange between Ministers of Culture and publishers on 21 November in order to express their opposition to the reaction of those dominant platforms as regards the application of the law in France, as well as to share concrete ideas on how to curtail the power of market dominant platforms and enable fair competition (see list of demands here).

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Ministers of Culture raise their voices against abusive practices led by dominant platforms in the implementation of the publishers’ right

At the Council of Ministers of Culture taking place on 21 November 2019, the French Minster discussed the implementation in France of the neighbouring right for press publishers as introduced by the Copyright Directive 2019/790. Franck Riester, French Minister of Culture, stressed that this situation reveals clear market imbalances and called upon a firm and appropriate response at EU level as well as for specific regulation for “structural platforms”.

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European Press publishers comment the first entry into force of Copyright Directive’s press publishers’ right in France

Today marks the first entry into force of a press publishers’ right in France.<br /> <br /> The European Magazine Media Association (EMMA) and the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA) show solidarity to the complete representations of newspaper and magazine publishers in France which held today a press conference to mark their strong opposition to Google’s unilateral change of settings and refusal to negotiate licence agreements with publishers for the use of their content.