Provision of a service to monitor and measure the use of audiovisual material produced by the institutions and made available to the media and other interested parties. The requested service involves monitoring and measuring the use of video footage broadcast by all channels of the 2 European institutions via a set of television channels to be defined in advance by the institutions. This set consists of channels from Member States, countries outside the European Union and pan-European channels.

The requested service involves monitoring and measuring the use of video footage broadcast by all channels of the 2 European institutions via a set of television channels to be defined in advance by the institutions.

This set comprises 220 television channels from the 28 Member States, countries outside the European Union and pan-European channels. It involves the channels with the highest viewing figures for a country or region and/or those which are of particular interest to the European institutions. These 220 channels will need to be monitored continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Monitoring is understood as being the ability to pick up the TV channels in the set and locate the images produced and broadcast by the institutions within the schedules of these TV channels.

The highest level of accuracy in detecting images of the institutions (expressed to the nearest second) is required and will need to be clearly stipulated in the tender.