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EU | Risk prevention in the audiovisual sector

03.06.2021 Updated on 02.07.2021 Audio-visual, Europe, Health and Safety

OIRA

During a webi­nar on 14 April 2021, pro­fes­sion­al bod­ies in the European audio­vi­su­al sec­tor –FIM, FIA and UNI MEI for work­ers, CEPI and IFFPA for employ­ers– pre­sent­ed the new inter­ac­tive risk assess­ment tool (OIRA) ded­i­cat­ed to audio­vi­su­al pro­duc­tion sites.

Run by UNI-​MEI, the webi­nar essen­tial­ly tar­get­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives and pro­fes­sion­als in the European audio­vi­su­al sec­tor. Davide Gianluca Vaccaro, who coor­di­nat­ed the devel­op­ment of this tool for two years, pre­sent­ed a tech­ni­cal descrip­tion. Roger Sutton con­tributed to this devel­op­ment work for FIM.

Like oth­er tools in the OiRA fam­i­ly, this is avail­able free of charge (in English) on the EU-​OSHA web­site. It is com­pa­ra­ble to tools already oper­at­ing in the live enter­tain­ment sec­tor and works from an office com­put­er, tablet or smart­phone. […]
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EU | Gender equality and diversity in the AV sector

Handbook on gender equality and diversity in the AV sectorAchieving gen­der equal­i­ty and pro­mot­ing diver­si­ty in the European audio­vi­su­al sector
A Good Practice Handbook to learn more from the expe­ri­ences on the ground

The social part­ners of the EU Social Dialogue Committee in the Audiovisual sec­tor — com­mer­cial and pub­lic broad­cast­ers, pro­duc­ers, and trade unions rep­re­sent­ing jour­nal­ists, cast and crew, and oth­er audio­vi­su­al pro­fes­sion­als – have been coop­er­at­ing to pro­mote gen­der equal­i­ty in film, radio and tele­vi­sion for many years already.

After the adop­tion of a Framework of Actions in 2011, the social part­ners launched a joint map­ping exer­cise to col­lect infor­ma­tion on the state-​of-​play and to iden­ti­fy the actions still need­ed to keep push­ing for gen­der equal­i­ty and diver­si­ty in the European Audiovisual sec­tor. […]
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The Beijing Treaty: what consequences for musicians?

25.05.2020 Updated on 07.07.2020 Audio-visual, Intellectual property

FIM delegation of Beijing Diplomatic Conference

As a result of the rat­i­fi­ca­tion, on 28 January 2020, by Indonesia of the Treaty on intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights of per­form­ers over their audio­vi­su­al per­for­mances, the Beijing Treaty, also known as the WAPT, offi­cial­ly came into force on 28 April last, that is to say, eight long years after being adopt­ed. Indonesia is the thir­ti­eth sate to have deposit­ed an instru­ment of rat­i­fi­ca­tion with WIPO.

Subject to rat­i­fi­ca­tion by the Member States, this treaty guar­an­tees per­form­ers an inalien­able and unas­sign­a­ble moral right as well as five types of exclu­sive eco­nom­ic rights grant­ed to ben­e­fi­cia­ries for their per­for­mances fixed in an audio­vi­su­al fix­a­tion: rights of repro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, rental, mak­ing avail­able, broad­cast­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion to the pub­lic. […]
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EU | Conclusion of the “Creative Skills Europe” project

15.04.2019 Updated on 27.10.2020 Audio-visual, Europe, International Arts and Entertainment Alliance, Live performance, Social dialogue

Creative Skills Euorpe logourope

The European Creative Skills Europe project, which was car­ried out between 2017 and 2019 with back­ing from the European Commission, has now been con­clud­ed. Various the­mat­ic work­shops on Education and Training in the Audiovisual and Live Performance sec­tors issued five doc­u­ments ded­i­cat­ed to the fol­low­ing issues:
 — A Step Ahead – Training for Innovation;
 — A Safe Bet – Training and Workforce Development;
 — It is a New World – Training in and for the Digital Era;
 — Joining Forces – Funding our Training Needs;
 — Fruitful Co-​operations – Access to Training through Social Dialogue.

These pub­li­ca­tions can now be con­sult­ed online at www​.cre​ativeskillseu​rope​.eu […]
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Closing the “Creative Skills Europe” project in Göteborg

04.03.2019 Updated on 27.10.2020 Audio-visual, Europe, International Arts and Entertainment Alliance, Live performance, Social dialogue

Göteborg | Final conference of Creative skills projectThe final con­fer­ence of the Creative Skills Europe project took place on 5 February 2019 in Göteborg (Sweden). It has opened the way to enhanced tech­ni­cal coop­er­a­tion between the var­i­ous nation­al skills coun­cils in the live per­for­mance and audio­vi­su­al sec­tors, but also at the lev­el of European social dialogue.

Participants sug­gest­ed future European ini­tia­tives aimed at meet­ing needs in skills. Exchanges addressed the fol­low­ing issues in par­tic­u­lar:
– devel­op­ing e‑learning
– shar­ing con­tents to fos­ter and facil­i­tate skills devel­op­ment where free­lance work­ers are con­cerned
– cre­at­ing mech­a­nisms for bet­ter recog­ni­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tions and skills at the European level.

The project’s results and con­clu­sions will be pub­lished short­ly on the Creative Skills Europe web­site. […]
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Audiovisual | Study on the European labour market

05.09.2016 Updated on 05.05.2018 Audio-visual, Europe, Social dialogue

EU_AV_study_2016

Commissioned and over­seen by social part­ners of the European audio­vi­su­al sec­to­r­i­al social dia­logue com­mit­tee*, this study exam­ines the state of the labour mar­ket and trends observed over the past years in ten European Union states (Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom). It is based on ana­lyt­i­cal and sta­tis­ti­cal doc­u­men­tary research, as well as inter­views car­ried out over sev­er­al months.

Study results show that tech­no­log­i­cal changes –par­tic­u­lar­ly the tran­si­tion to digital- reg­u­la­to­ry mod­i­fi­ca­tions, new forms of enter­pris­es, the eco­nom­ic cri­sis and con­se­quent aus­ter­i­ty mea­sures have brought about sig­nif­i­cant changes in the labour mar­ket with, at the end of the day, new oppor­tu­ni­ties, but also fresh dif­fi­cul­ties. […]
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EU | Third thematic workshop for the Creative Skills Europe project

07.03.2016 Updated on 27.10.2020 Audio-visual, Europe, International Arts and Entertainment Alliance, Live performance, Social dialogue

Madrid workshop

In Madrid on 1 and 2 March 2016, social part­ners of the European audio­vi­su­al and live per­for­mance sec­toral dia­logue com­mit­tees held the third and final the­mat­ic work­shop on skills and the job market.

The work­shop brought togeth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives from nation­al skills coun­cils from the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, as well as social part­ners from south­ern European coun­tries, in par­tic­u­lar, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

The first day focused on exam­in­ing projects and stud­ies con­cern­ing strate­gies for skill empow­er­ment and answers to the spe­cif­ic needs of both sec­tors which are fac­ing rapid and mas­sive changes.

The sec­ond day was divid­ed up into group exchange ses­sions, on issues relat­ing to career man­age­ment, the impact of the dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment or build­ing bridges between the worlds of edu­ca­tion and work. […]
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Taking atypical workers into account in the audiovisual and performing arts sectors

08.06.2015 Updated on 27.10.2020 Audio-visual, Europe, International Arts and Entertainment Alliance, Social dialogue

Amsterdam workshop

In Amsterdam, on 20 May 2015, FIM, FIA, UNI-​MEI and the EFJ organ­ised the first work­shop of their joint project on the pro­tec­tion and rep­re­sen­ta­tion of “atyp­i­cal” work­ers, i.e. those who are not employed by a per­ma­nent con­tract. This project has the finan­cial back­ing of the European Commission and the assis­tance of a con­sul­tant, Pascale Charhon, tasked with col­lect­ing infor­ma­tion need­ed for research work with­in the scope of the project.

There are numer­ous forms of “atyp­i­cal” work, but work­ers for whom access to social pro­tec­tion and col­lec­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion is the most dif­fi­cult to ensure is that of “free­lancers”, who do not con­sti­tute a uni­form cat­e­go­ry. […]
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