Consultation meeting on Public Service Media Governance

Strasbourg, 17-18 September 2009

Working documents

1. Agenda and Annotated Agenda

2. 1st Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Media and New Communication Services “A new notion of media?” (28 and 29 May 2009, Reykjavik, Iceland):

Ø Adopted texts (political declaration and resolutions)
Ø A new notion of media? (background document by K. Jakubowicz)
Ø Public service media governance: looking to the future (background documents by the Secretariat)

3. Terms of Reference Ad hoc Advisory Group on Public Service Media Governance (MC-S-PG)

Selected information documents

4. Recommendation Rec(2007)3 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on the remit of public service media in the information society

5. Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)16 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on measures to promote the public service value of the Internet

6. Recommendation 1878 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe “The funding of public service broadcasting”

7. Strategies of public service media as regards promoting a wider democratic participation of individuals - Report prepared by the Group of Specialists on Public Service Media in the Information Society (MC-S-PSM), November 2008

8. The public service remit and the new media, IRIS plus, European Audiovisual Observatory, 2009

9. The Good Governance Standard for Public Services (The Independent Commission for Good Governance in Public Services)

10. Public service media in the information society (C. Nissen)

11. Public service broadcasting: a new beginning, or the beginning of the end? (K. Jakubowicz)

12. State aid: Commission updates rules for state funding of public broadcasters (July 2009)