EBLIDA Position Papers and Statements

 


Contents


Culture

Communication and Information Strategy

GATS, WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services

Information Society

Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)

Open Access

Public Sector Information (PSI)

 


Communication and Information Strategy

EBLIDA Response to the European Commission's White Paper on a Communication Policy [COM (2006)0035 final (Brussels, 1.2.2006)]

EBLIDA Response to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the European Commission's Green Paper "European Transparency Initiative" [COM (2006) 194 final of 3 May 2006]. The EBLIDA Response can also be found under Private Sector, EU level bodies, No 104.

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Culture

EBLIDA Response to the DG EAC consultation with stakeholders, organizations and individuals active in the cultural sector on the questions to be raised in the 2007 Communication on culture (also available in PDF). Please note that this is the original version, which slightly differs from the revised version sent to the Commission in order to fit in the provided online form (November 2006)

EBLIDA Statement to the European Commission Memorandum on Lifelong Learning (June 2001)

EBLIDA Contribution to the consideration on the subject of a single European Union Programme for Culture, 27 November 1997
EBLIDA Recommendations on Libraries as information partners in Europe: eliminating frontiers, November 1995
EBLIDA Recommendations on Libraries as partners to promote Books and Reading in Europe, 11 July 1995
EBLIDA Position Paper on the Ariane programme - European Community Action in Support of Culture, 20 October 1994

 

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GATS, WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services

EBLIDA Statement on the Proposal of the European Parliament and of the Council for a Directive on Services in the Internal Market, November 2005

    Stellungnahme des Deutschen Bibliotheksverbandes e.V. zum Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie des europäischen Parlaments und des Rates über Dienstleistungen im Binnenmarkt vom 25.2.2005 KOM (2004) 2 endgültig/2

How International Trade Agreements affect Libraries. EBLIDA Position Paper on International Trade Agreements, September 2005 (also available in PDF Format)

    EBLIDA Positionspapier. Der Einfluss internationaler Handelsabkommen auf Bibliotheken. EBLIDA Positionspapier zu internationalen Handelsabkommen, September 2005 (also available in PDF format)

EBLIDA Response to the EC consultation on WTO members’ requests to the EC and its member states for improved market access to services, January 2003

EBLIDA Statement on the WTO GATS negotiations, Libraries and trade in services, November 2002 (also available in PDF Format)

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Information Society

EBLIDA Response to the European Commission's Public Consultation on Content Online in the Single Market, 28 July 2006, (PDF) (October 2006)

IFLA/EBLIDA Joint Position - Position of libraries to the Draft Broadcasting Treaty – SCCR/15/2, Fifteenth Session, Geneva, 11-13 September 2006 (PDF) (September 2006)

EBLIDA, eIFL and IFLA Joint Intervention, Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda, Second Session, Geneva, 26-30 June 2006 (PDF) (June 2006)

EBLIDA Response to the “Questions for Online Consultation”, annex to the Communication from the Commission ‘i2010 Digital Libraries’, Brussels, 30.9.2005, SEC (2005) 1195, {COM (2005)465 final}. Response to the questions seriatim, January 2006

EBLIDA Response concerning the future of the information networks of Info Points Europe, November 2003

EBLIDA Declaration on the European Parliament Resolution on The role of libraries in modern society, 3 November 1998
EBLIDA Contribution on Libraries and the Information Society, June 1996
EBLIDA Response to the European Parliament Hearing on the impact of new technologies in Publishing, Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media, 4 June 1996
EBLIDA Comments on INFO2000, July 1995

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Intellectual Property Rights

European Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights

EBLIDA Response to the Open Consultation on "Copyright levies in a converging world" (PDF), July 2006

EBLIDA Response to the European Commission on the evaluation of EU rules on databases [DG Internal Market and Services Working Paper. First evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, Brussels, 12 December 2005]

  EBLIDA Response to the European Commission web-based Working Document Management of copyright and related rights and the Commission Staff Working Document Study on a Community initiative on the cross-border collective management of copyright of 7 July 2005

 EBLIDA Response to the European Commission Working Party 29 Working Document on Data Protection Issues related to Intellectual Property Rights (Working Document 104 of 18 January 2005), March 2005  

 EBLIDA Response to the European Commission Staff Working Paper on the Review of the EC legal framework in the field of Copyright and related rights (SEC(2004)0995 of 19 July 2004), October 2004

 EBLIDA Response to the European Commission consultation on the Final Report of the High Level Group on Digital Rights Management, March-July 2004, September 2004

 EBLIDA Response to the European Commission consultation on the Communication from the European Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee on the Management of Copyright and Related Rights in the Internal Market (COM (2004)261 final, Brussels, 16 April 2004)

 EBLIDA Statement on the infringement procedures over Public Lending Right, March 2004

  EBLIDA Position on European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market Report (First reading) on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights (A5-0468/2003, 5 December 2003), also available in DOC Format, December 2003

  EBLIDA Position on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on measures and procedures to ensure the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (also available in DOC Format), August 2003

  EBLIDA Position on Digital Rights Management Systems, February 2003

  EBLIDA Response to the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market's draft Recommendation for Second Reading on the proposed Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society, 14 December 2000

EBLIDA Comments on the text of the amended proposal approved by COREPER to the proposed Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society, October 2000 (English)

  EBLIDA Response to the amended draft Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society - presented by the European Commission on 21 May 1999, Part I: Recommendations, August 1999

  EBLIDA Response to the amended draft Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society - presented by the European Commission on 21 May 1999, Part II: Recitals and Articles, August 1999

  EBLIDA Comments (ten minutes) to the proposed Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society, European Parliament Public Hearing, Consumer Forum Intergroup, July 1998

  EBLIDA Statement (five minutes) on the proposed Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society, European Parliament Public Hearing, Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizen's Rights, June 1998

  EBLIDA Response to issues to be raised at the Economic and Social Committee Hearing on Copyright, May 1998

  The European Fair Practices in Copyright Campaign (EFPICC) - Leading European user and technology industry groups unite to call for a balanced Information Society Copyright Directive

  EBLIDA Comments to the draft Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society (first comments now superseded), April 1998

  EBLIDA Position Paper on the proposed Directive on the Harmonisation of certain aspects of Copyright and related Rights in the Information Society. Save Future Access to Information Now!, March 1998

  EBLIDA Comments on the Follow-up to the Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society (20 November 1996), 25 April 1997

  EBLIDA Position Paper on the Proposed New Treaties in the Copyright field under discussion at WIPO, November 1996

  EBLIDA Response to the EC Green Paper on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, 30 October 1995
  EBLIDA Position Paper on the Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, March 1993

 

International Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights

  EBLIDA Contribution at WIPO Informal Meeting on Databases, September 1997

  EBLIDA Position Paper on the Proposed New Treaties in the Copyright field under discussion at WIPO, November 1996

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Intergovernmental Conference

EBLIDA Comments on the draft Treaty of Amsterdam, August 1997
EBLIDA Position Paper on the Intergovernmental Conference 1996, June 1996| Top |

 


Open Access

EBLIDA Statement on the Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe, commissioned by DG Research (31 March 2006)

 EBLIDA Statement to the European Commission Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe of 15 June 2004

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Public Sector Information

EBLIDA Response to the Green Paper 'Public Sector Information: a key resource for Europe' [COM (1998)555EC 1998], also available in DOC Format, 10 June 1999

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Created: 19 November 1997

Last updated: 9 November 2006