International Union of Cinemas (UNIC)
27/10: 2020 UNIC Annual Report now available! – UNIC website
The report details key cinema trends across the 38 territories UNIC represents, alongside the usual update on cinema-going last year and policy developments at EU level, as well as some information on UNIC and the work we do here in Brussels.
COVID-19: Creative & cultural sectors (CCS)
3/11: European Cinema Body demands further public funding support for cinemas during COVID-19 – UNIC website
Following recent decisions requiring the closure of cinemas across a number of European countries in response to ‘spikes’ in COVID-19, European trade body the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) has today renewed its call to national governments, the European Commission and the European Parliament to provide further public funding support to the sector to ensure that cinemas are able to survive the ongoing challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis.
30/10: Inclusion of culture in the Recovery & Resilience Facility - Letters from the cultural & creative sectors – UNIC website
10 organisations have written to the European Commission and National Governments to call for culture to be an integral part of their national recovery and resilience plans and for the cultural and creative sectors to receive at least 2% of the Recovery and Resilience Facility budget, as called for by the European Parliament in its recent Resolution on the “Cultural Recovery of Europe”.
COVID-19: EU response
30/10: Remarks by President Charles Michel after the video conference of the members of the European Council on 29 October 2020 – European Council
29/10: InvestEU Fund: boost for sustainable, innovative and social investment – European Parliament
InvestEU aims to be a fund that provides support to EU investors by integrating and simplifying the financing, offered under a single budgetary guarantee scheme.
29/10: Covid-19: 10 things the EU is doing for economic recovery – European Parliament
Find out what the EU is doing to help Europe get back on its feet following the devastating economic effects brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.
29/10: Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference with President Michel, following the EU Leaders' videoconference on COVID-19 – European Commission
28/10: 2021 EU budget must focus on supporting a sustainable recovery from the pandemic – European Parliament
The main focus of the 2021 budget should be to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and support the recovery, building on the Green Deal and digital transformation.
28/10: EU budget talks: Council rejects Parliament’s breakthrough proposal – European Parliament
EP negotiators made a breakthrough proposal on the critical issue of how to count the costs of common debt in the next long-term EU budget. Council has rejected it blindly.
Copyright enforcement
/10: Report and study on the memorandum of understanding on online advertising and intellectual property rights – EAO newsletter
/10: CJEU: Opinion on copyright infringements through framing – EAO newsletter
EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)
/10: (SI) Slovenia’s draft AVMS law introduces obligations to invest in European works – EAO newsletter
Events
3 November: Video conference of the Eurogroup
4 November: Video conference of economics and finance ministers
9 November: AV coalition meeting with German Presidency
20 November: EFADs roundtable
2 December: European Commission legislative proposal for the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan - TBC
10 December: EAO elections for the Advisory Board
Recent studies
EAO - The number of European films making it from cinema to VOD is 2.6 times higher than the number of US films – November 2
