Monday, March 9, 2015

José Luis Acosta, reelected president of the SGAE – euronews

Reuters, 09/03 19:37 CET

 The newly elected president of the SGAE (SGAE), José Luis Acosta Salmerón, during a press conference. EFE / File The newly elected president the SGAE (SGAE), José Luis Acosta Salmerón, during a press conference. EFE / File

Madrid, March 9 ( EFE ) .- José Luis Acosta has been reelected president this afternoon SGAE ( SGAE ), by 24 votes against 14 obtained by his opponent, José Miguel Fernández Sastrón, which will occupy one of the four vice of the entity.

About two hours lasted the meeting held by the 38 members of the board (have missed Inés París) to elect new governing bodies who will lead the organization over the next four years, during which, as indicated Acosta , management precedence over politics.

Acosta (Ubeda, Jaén, 1961), writer and producer, served as president of the SGAE the July 25, 2013 in replacement of Anton Reixa and has been re-elected after the elections held last February 26.

In a press conference, the president of the SGAE said that “obviously” the salary is lower, as announced, will propose the creation of the post of CEO of the company with the intention that the presidency is “less executive”.

Regarding the clashes lived in the SGAE , the president has confidence that “common sense” prevail over any other argument: “We played a lot these years” he stressed.

However, he acknowledged that it is difficult consensus in this state, because it is made up of 39 members distributed by schools, each with different interests.

So, the College of Great Law (authors, choreographers and musicians performing arts) has 16 members on the board; Small Law (music composers and lyricists), 6; Audiovisual (directors, producers, screenwriters) with 9 members; and the Association of Publishers (music publishers), has 8.

This composition has stressed, make more complicated the governance of the entity, which has opted for intercollegiate greater independence, so that decisions affecting only one of them “do not have why splashing another.”

Acosta has also announced that from the first Board, which will meet after Easter, there will be a battery proposals for the purpose of the SGAE back to its source management entity, so that the partner “is proud to belong to it.”

Also, the June 25th general assembly of two members will be held to present the accounts for 2014 and 2013, whose rejection led to early elections.

Asked Case National Court has confirmed the sentence of two years and a half former Director of Corporate Relations SGAE Pedro Farré to load on your corporate card spending in local hostess, Acosta noted do not know him, because he did not agree with him in the state, and reiterated that favor whatever is helping Justice.

In this regard, he recalled that during the pendency of the Property Law Intellectual, which affects more control of the Government towards the management entities, defended tutelage.

“I was very interested that the government will protect and that the rules of transparency is fierce and help us to be more rigorous because for me it’s a guarantee, especially considering where we come in that will not pass “what happened in the SGAE and ended with the arrest of several of its executives in 2011.

With regard to information released today by ABC regarding intention of the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, to lower the IVA Cultural of 21 to 10%, Acosta has trusted to be true, because “the majority view of all cultural industry and all authors is that IVA is an atrocity. “

In addition to Fernández Sastrón elected vice president of the Association of Small Law, Miguel Hermoso will occupy vice president of audiovisual, Paloma Pedrero the Great Law and Alvaro Torres, Warner Bross, the editorial.

The Board shall be composed of Fernández Sastrón, Javier Losada, Mónica Fernández de Valderrama, Jesus Gluck Augusto Algueró, Fernando Colomo, Julia Altars, Enric Goma, Paloma Pedrero and Joan Vives, Juan Ignacio Alonso, Alma Martinez and Rafael Artero.

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