Pearle * - Live Performance Europe

Pearle*- Live Performance Europe is the European federation regrouping through its members over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts and live event sectors. Pearle* welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the evaluation of the Public Procurement Directives.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe welcomes the European Commission's initiative to develop a dedicated Strategy on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural and Creative Sectors. Pearle* is the European federation representing over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts and live performance sectors.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, representing over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts, and live events sectors, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the consultation on the upcoming Digital Fairness Act (DFA). As a general principle, Pearle* supports the objectives of the forthcoming Act to ensure a transparent and trustworthy online environment for consumers.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe is the European federation representing over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts, and live event sectors. As a European employers' association, Pearle* takes part in the European sectoral social dialogue. Pearle* supports the European Commissions ongoing initiative to strengthen basic skills in school education.

Pearle* - Live Performance Europe welcomes the opportunity to give input to the draft Digital Services Act to be launched later this year. We share the Commission’s analysis that online services have deeply transformed the way we interact, communicate and do businesses. In this context, the live performance sector faces serious problems with a growing illicit online secondary ticketing.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe welcomes in general the Commissions initiative to improve mobility for disabled persons. As part of the cultural sector, our members who are organisations and companies in the music, performing arts and live event sector, are committed to providing access to culture and to inclusion.

As a general principle Pearle* supports for all people to have access to culture, but underlines the need to be realistic about achieving those goals. For the live performance, regardless of the fact that as a general principle we acknowledge the importance for all people to be able to access culture, this can only be realised when it is accompanied by a targeted policy and related funding to deploy a wide range of…

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, representing over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts, and live events sectors, welcomes the Commissions objective of simplifying and clarifying EU tax rules to reduce administrative burdens and improve the business environment in Europe. For the live performance sector, tax complexity is not merely a technical compliance issue.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe supports the Commissions initiative to increase the protection of passengers. In the cultural sector performers travel a lot, as it is an inherent part of their professional activity. In this regard, in a capacity of passenger, they will equally benefit from the proposed package on passenger rights.

Pearle* - Live Performance Europe, representing through its members over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts and live event sectors, welcomes the Commissions intention to identify practical ways to make EU rules and procedures simpler for people in their daily lives.

Pearle* welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions assessment of the Recommendation adopted on 4 May 2023, on combating online piracy of sports and other live events. Pearle* is also part of the Live Content Coalition (LCC). The LCC is a group of representatives of leading European live content producers, broadcasters, and exhibitors.

Pearle* Live Performance Europe, the European federation representing performing arts organisations, and a recognised sectoral social partner, welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the future Fair Labour Mobility Package through this Call for Evidence.

Pearle* Live Performance Europe welcomes the Commissions proposals on rail ticketing and on the protection of passengers with single tickets. The proposals constitute an important step towards making cross-border rail travel more reliable and accessible, including for artists, technical professionals and other workers in the live performance sector who regularly travel across Europe under fixed and time-sensitive…

Pearle* Live Performance Europe is the European federation representing employers in the live performance sector, including theatres, concert venues, festivals, and orchestras across Europe. We welcome the Commissions initiative to revise Regulation (EU) 2021/782. Rail is vital to connecting people across borders, advancing the Unions sustainability goals, and ensuring the mobility of cultural professionals.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, representing over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts, and live events sectors, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the call for evidence on the forthcoming EU Sustainable Tourism Strategy.

Pearle* recognizes the positive potential of this framework, especially its alignment with the EUs energy and decarbonization targets. We commend the Commission for recognizing the importance of energy renovations and the need to make financing accessible to all sectors.

Pearle* Live Performance Europe, the European federation representing performing arts organisations, and a recognised sectoral social partner, welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to develop a European Social Security Pass (ESSPASS) and appreciates the opportunity to contribute to this Call for Evidence supporting the impact assessment.

Pearle*-Live Performance Europe welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the revision of the Visa Code. Cross-border mobility is a structural feature of the live performance sector. Theatres, concert halls, festivals, orchestras, opera and dance companies and other performing arts organisations regularly engage artists and cultural professionals, including technical and production personnel, or invite music or…

Pearle*- Live Performance Europe is the European federation regrouping through its members over 13,000 organisations and companies in the music, performing arts and live event sectors. Pearle* has taken note of the Commissions invitation to a call for feedback on its plans to present a proposal on the digitalisation of travel documents.