Collective Rights Management Societies are crucial for composers and songwriters and ECSA fully supports their role as aggregators of authors' rights. Properly managed societies protect the interests of music writers and ensure that composers and songwriters are remunerated for the exploitation of their musical works. ECSA welcomes the initiative to establish a framework intended to facilitate the re-aggregation of repertoires and to strive for highest efficiency and governance standards in the licensing of musical rights and looks forward to cooperating closely with EU institutions in this important matter.