EU claims more transparency for collecting societies

In a proposal which has been published by the European Commission on 11 July 2012, the EU is going amongst others to force collecting societies to more transparency including the reform of basic standards which must be followed by all European collecting societies. To have a look at the plans of the Commission please follow this link: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/docs/management/com-2012-3722_en.pdf