With the Bulgarian Presidency finetuning its new compromise for the Committee of the Permanent Representatives to the EU on 25 May, the European Parliament Rapporteur, Axel Voss (EPP, Germany), distributed his sixth version of his compromise amendments on the most controversial articles, namely, the neighbouring law for newspaper publishers and the value gap (see EUROPE 11992).
The paper on the value gap, seen by EUROPE, modifies the directive's scope at the margins. Therefore, the new...