Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Discussion

Mr. Victor Finn:

The next milestone on the copyright directive is the implementation deadline of 7 June 2021.

If Ireland does not implement by that date, we run the danger of fines from the European Commission. It is imperative, therefore, that we get legislation in place by 7 June and that, as I said, it does not dilute in any way the spirit and text of the directive as it stands. I will hand over to Mr. Johnson, my colleague, on education initiatives he may have on the future.

EPIC is probably in a better position to comment on the point on pre-event testing, but it sounds to me that pre-event testing could be problematic in terms of the time it would take to do pre-tests. However, I think that is better left to the health authorities and the concert organisers and should be an item that is dealt with by a stakeholder group, as I said in my opening statement.

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