1. The Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee A presentation by Allan Jones SDC Employers Coordinator Legal & Public Affairs, EBU Geneva, 29 th May 2009

2. Members of the AV SDC Employers' representatives European Broadcasting Union Association of European Radios European Coordination of Independent Producers International Federation of Film Producers Association Association of Commercial Television in Europe

3. Members of the AV SDC Employees' representatives Euro-Mei European Federation of Journalists International Federation of Actors International Federation of Musicians

4. The Audiovisual sector In the EU over 1.25 million people work in the audiovisual sector. Just under half (46%) are women, 82% have employee status and 75% work full-time. The five employers associations on the SDC cover over 12,500 individual enterprises, varying in size from 25,000 staff The four trade union organisations represent jointly around 330,000 workers and UNI-MEI acts as the employees' secretariat.

5. History and background The Audiovisual SDC was formed in 2004 We have 2 plenary and 3 working group meetings per year Average of 12 employers and 24 union delegates Primarily North-western European delegates, on both sides of the committee

6. Challenges to AV sector Public sector – threat to licence fee/public funding Private sector – collapse of advertising revenue and fall in commissions A skilled and diverse workforce Piracy

7. Agenda ‘Internal’ projects Training Enlargement Equal Opportunities

8. Agenda ‘External’ Projects Labour Legislation 2006 Green Paper Work-life balance Flexicurity

9. Challenges to AV SDC Unions looking for ‘hard’ results EC looking for ‘hard’ results Employers looking for ‘soft’ results Representation from new MS Expertise of the delegates

10. Achievements Still meeting after 5 years !! Intangible benefits Warsaw Conference 2006 Prague Conference 2008 What does the EC think?

11. The Audiovisual Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee Questions