European broadcasters welcome the progress achieved during the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/42) on the Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting Organizations Treaty and remain confident that a consensus is on the horizon for a robust international instrument in the future – with a common declaration from the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe (ACT), the Association of European Radios (AER), and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), representing both commercial and public service broadcasters as well as video-on-services operators.