Council of Europe Advisory Group on Public Service Media Governance (MC-S-PG)

The working group is under the authority of the Steering Committee on the Media and New Communication Services (CDMC) and is instructed to work on the role of public service media in a democratic society.

The objective of the group is to pursue work on the role of public service media in a democratic society and to elaborate, if appropriate, on a policy document exploring governance approaches that could contribute to fulfilling public service media’s remit. This should include reflections on results-oriented alternative public expenditure approaches for media and media-like services.

EAVI participates as an observer in this working group, its aim within this group is to defend public service broadcasters and promote good practices in media use.

The MC-S-PG is composed of eight specialists on public service media, on participation and on governance matters and management, appointed by the Secretary General. The European Audiovisual Observatory and the European Commission may send a representative each to the group meetings.The first meeting was on the 27^th and 28^th of May  2010 in Strasbourg. There were 16 participants. The Group elected Mr Tim Suter as the Group’s Chairperson and Ms Bissera Zankova as Vice-chairperson for a one-year term of office.
At this meeting the members agreed to prepare a report which should eventually become the basis of a standard setting policy document on public service media governance.

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