Imperfect regulatory measures that have been employed at EU level or at least
an incomplete framework that lacks important tools for accounting for public policy
objectives in the culture industries appears to characterize EC policy in this field.
Furthermore, the EU is increasingly relying on a policy development framework that
falls short of traditional methods for developing policy in this field as the EU turns to
soft law (see Harcourt, Chapter 1) to resolve the possibility of sclerosis in its policy
development as it approaches areas that the member states show little enthusiasm in
ceding to the EU policy framework.