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EU acknowledges DAB and DRM but remains neutral
08-Feb-12
In response to the letter addressed on 19 December by AMARC Europe - World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - on the impact on local and community radio of the adoption of a single standard for digital radio, the European Union stresses that currently there is no common policy policy on radio broadcasting. The EU sees a consensus that the future of radio distribution will be multi-platform and that terrestrial distribution is still the sole platform for truly mobile reception, in particular in cars. The EU accepts that there are terrestrial radio standards in use for distributing national and regional services, i.e. the DAB family of standards as well as the DRM family conceived as a separate, but complementary development. "We note that building multiple standards into radio receiver chips is becoming a reality and that software implementation of radio receiver standards is evolving into a mass-market phenomenon. Public policy has to remain both neutral in terms of technological solutions and sufficiently flexible to adapt to future evolutions."
European Commission's response to AMARC's letter 19 Dec 2011.