Some recommendations are out, focusing on the functioning of small and medium-sized concert halls, key players for emerging artists & the status of artists.)
The functioning of small and medium-sized concert halls
Recommendation 1: A Recognition of live music venues as cultural operators across Europe.
Recommendation 2: A European audience development strategy
Recommendation 3: Reduce and harmonize VAT for cultural goods and services
Status of artists
Recommendation 1: A recognised, harmonised Pan-European definition of artists, and art related professions
Recommendation 2: recognised, harmonised, and credited research methodology, that EU Member States would agree to use as baseline information on the music sector
Recommendation 3: A recognised Pan-European research on the turnover of music ecosystem
Recommendation 4: Creation of a social support scheme for artists, and art professionals