29/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption last week in Strasbourg of the report by Marieke Sanders-Ten-Holte (EPP-ED, Netherlands) on the Community's participation in the European audiovisual observatory (codecision, first reading), the European Parliament mainly stresses that, given the development of new technologies, the Observatory should invest in know-how. The EP also considers that the Observatory could provide systematic information in the tax, labour law, copyrights and consumer protection fields, and calls on it to gather data on an annual basis concerning the levels of television services for persons with disabilities (subtitles, audiovision, sign language).