State Aid for Films and Other Audio-Visual Works: The 2013 Cinema Communication journal article Irina Orssich European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 13 (2014), Issue 4, Page 698 - 706 The audio-visual sector has important cultural and economic significance. The Cinema Communication aims to reconcile the conflicting goals of promoting culture, as a nationally defined concept and controlling the economic activities related to it, from a State aid and internal market perspective.While Europe is good at producing some 1,500 films annually, for the most part those films stay on national markets and do not cross borders.1 In 2011, the European Commission
State Aid for Films and Other Audiovisual Works – Current Affairs and New Developments journal article Irina Orssich European State Aid Law Quarterly, Volume 11 (2012), Issue 1, Page 49 - 55 I. Introduction In EStAL 2/2011 Sylvie Nérisson commented on the Commission’s “Carte Musique Jeune” decision1 and concluded that “State aid should help new business models to develop, not old ones to survive”.2 The audiovisual sector is facing a similar technological revolution and changing consumer behaviour, to that which has affected the music sector for more then a decade. In 2001, the Commission had adopted a Communication on certain legal a
Judgment By Formula: Regulatory Form and the Differentiation of Fiscal Measures and Non-Fiscal Measures in EU State Aid Law Christopher McMahon