30. 12. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 321/25 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 10 July 1995 on the implementation of a programme encouraging the development and distribution of European audiovisual works (Media II — Development and distribution) (1996-2000) {95/563/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 130 (3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), (1) Whereas the European Council meeting in Brussels on 10 and 11 December 1993 took note of the White Paper ‘Growth, competitiveness and employment’ as the reference point for action by the European Union and its Member States; whereas the White Paper supports an industrial development  approach  based on  global competitiveness, as the key to growth and employment; and states, in particular in Chapter 5-C, the economic importance of the audiovisual industry; Whereas the European Council meeting in Corfu on 24 and 25 June 1994, took note of the report by the ‘Bangemann Group’ entitled ‘Europe and the global information society — recommendations to the European Council’, in particular acknowledging the strategic importance of the audiovisual programme industry in terms of content; o C 108, 29. 4. 1995, p. 8. o C 166, 3. 7. 1995, p. 191. o C 256, 2. 10. 1995, p. 24. zZZZ 3) (6) Whereas the ‘Industry/Telecommunications’ Council, of 28 September 1994, issued a favourable opinion on the Commission’s communication of 19 July 1994 entitled ‘Europe’s way to the information society: an action plan’; whereas it emphasized the need to  improve the competitiveness of the FEuropean audiovisual industry; Whereas the Council took formal note, on 17 June 1994 of the Green Paper on ‘Strategy options to strengthen the European programme industry in' the context of the audiovisual policy of the European Union’; Whereas the Commission consulted the people in the industry on the options put forward in the Green Paper, in particular by holding the ‘European Audiovisual Conference’ in Brussels from 30 June to 2 July 1994; whereas the consultation process revealed a strong desire for an enhanced programme of support for the FEuropean audiovisual industry, in particular in the area of development and distribution; Whereas the European Parliament, in its resolution of 6 May 1994 (*), examined the problems of the audiovisual industry, following Council Directive 89/552/EEC  of 3 October 1989 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities (*) (the ‘Television Without Frontiers’ Directive), in preparation for the European audiovisual conference ‘and took the view that the priorities established inter alia during the discussions on amendments to the Media () OJ No C 205, 25. 7. 1994, p. S61. () O] No L 298, 17. 10. 1989, p. 23.