Jun 24, 2004

Services in the internal market - proposal for directive-June2004

The specific position of the arts and its cultural operators that rely on public funding, needs to be taken into consideration and to be clearly referred to.

Following the subsidiarity principle, the public funding of the arts belongs to the competencies of the member states and its regions. Cultural operators that are publicly funded, do not distribute profits; they are acknowledged by their public authorities to take a specific role in society whereby the arts contribute to the values, history, and identity of people in Europe.

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