Strasbourg, 22/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - By following the Belgian Green Luckas Vander Taelen, author of an own-initiative report on a better distribution of European films within the EU and in the candidate countries (see EUROPE of 12/13 November, p.18), the Parliament called for the launching of a multi-annual Community plan to make the cinema industry more competitive. In particular, he: - hoped that the Commission, the EIB and the European Investment Fund would closely examine the financing of transnational structures for the distribution of European films, during the implementation of the "i2i" initiative aimed at supporting the audio-visual sector; - calls for the continuation of research (in the context of the sixth framework-programme) on digital techniques facilitating access to several language versions of films; - calls to examine the possibility, during the revision of the Directive "Television without borders", of encouraging television channels to dedicate a certain amount of viewing time to European films. Moreover, by adopting an amendment from the rapporteur, the plenary moved in favour of the creation of an European executive agency responsible for issues linked to audio-visual. On the other hand, following the adoption of amendments, the plenary did not invite the Commission, as foreseen in the initial text, to; - create a European school for the cinematographic arts; - foresee a budget for the restoration of works with a "strong social and artistic content".