Satellite communications: the provision of and access to space segment capacity

Adopting the report by Mr HOPPENSTEDT, the European Parliament called on the Member States to take steps to ensure that satellite transmission capacities were allocated in a non-discriminatory manner. In its resolution, the European Parliament: - called on the Member States to lobby organisations such as Intelsat, Inmarsat and Eutelsat to ensure that space segment capacities were allocated fairly and to adopt a balanced common approach which allowed orbital resources and frequencies to be managed efficiently; - called on the Commission to take account of both cultural and economic pluralism in order to preserve and strengthen diversity in the radio-broadcasting and personal communications sectors; - stressed that the principle of free access to the satellite sector should apply equally to public corporations and private operators; - felt that there might to cause to set up a central supervisory body in charge of controlling space segment capacity providers in Europe. Parliament deplored the fact that the Commission had failed to table a draft resolution together with its communication and called on it to enclose draft resolutions with pre-legislative communications in the future.�