Press Release: The music sector and Community policy: European conference in Brussels on 13 October 2001

The Belgian Presidency, with the support of the European Commission, is holding a conference on music in Europe in Brussels on 13 October 2001. In the European Union, the music sector is a highly competitive sector typified by its considerable diversity: it encompasses amateurs and professionals, large corporations and SMEs and combines an industrial and a cultural dimension. The conference aims to analyse the developments in this sector, where new communication technologies have an increasingly important role to play, and explore ways in which Community policy can complement these changes.