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A new composition for the Polish Regulator
posted on 05 October, 2016   (public)
A new composition for the Polish Regulator Since mid-September 2016, the new Council of the Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (KRRiT), the National Broadcasting Council of Poland, has taken its 6-years term of office. The new Chairman is Mr Witold Kołodziejski. He was...
How digital natives perceive advertising: a study by the Belgian CSA
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 26 September, 2016   (public)
How digital natives perceive advertising: a study by the Belgian CSA The study, published on August 29th, 2016, was conducted by Claude Pecheux, resident researcher at the CSA, and coming from the University of Mons (UCL). The objective was to better understand how different...
Digital platforms: French CSA Study - now available in English
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 26 September, 2016   (public)
Digital platforms: French CSA Study - now available in English On September 23rd, 2016, the French Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) published a study on digital platforms and the challenges that they raise both in terms of competition and regulation. The...
Proposed Modernisation of the EU copyright rules
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 15 September, 2016   (public)
Proposed Modernisation of the EU copyright rules On September 14, 2016, the European Commission published a draft Directive on copyright in the Digital single market and a draft Regulation to provide EU copyright rules with the right tools fitting the realities of the...
Digitisation, opportunity or threat? A new report by the German Regulators
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 07 September, 2016   (public)
Digitisation, opportunity or threat? A new report by the German Regulators Die Medienanstalten, the German media regulatory authorities, have just published their 2016 report on digitisation, as a symbolic threshold of 80% of digital cable households was recently reached,...
Spanish CNMC reports on the fulfilment of RTVE's public service duties
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 02 September, 2016   (public)
Spanish CNMC reports on the fulfilment of RTVE's public service duties On August 2, 2016, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), the nation-wide communication regulatory authority in Spain, published its first ever report on the fulfilment...
Net neutrality: BEREC publishes Guidelines
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 31 August, 2016   (public)
Net neutrality: BEREC publishes Guidelines On August 30, 2016, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) published its Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulators of European Net Neutrality Rules, following last year's first ever...
Irish BAI launches 2016 Media Research Funding Scheme
by Eric Munch (Observer) posted on 31 August, 2016   (public)
Irish BAI launches 2016 Media Research Funding Scheme On August 30, 2016, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) gave details about its new 2016 Media Research Funding Scheme, dedicated to short-time research projects dealing with themes currently-relevant for the Irish...
Poland - Act on the National Media Council
posted on 21 July, 2016   (public)
Poland - Act on the National Media Council On 22 June 2016, the Act on the National Media Council was passed by the Polish Parliament (Official Journal “Dz.U.” of 29 June 2016, no 929). This Act defines the tasks, powers, organisation and procedure for the...
Adapting PSB to the digital environment - a new Swiss report
posted on 29 June, 2016   (public)
Adapting PSB to the digital environment - a new Swiss report On 17 June 2016, the Swiss government (the “Federal Council”) published a 137-page report analysing the performance of Swiss public service media in the Internet age. The report deals with the performance...
Croatian regulator launches Media Literacy Website
by Damir Hajduk (AEM - HR) posted on 20 June, 2016   (public)
Croatian regulator launches Media Literacy Website The Croatian regulatory authority, the Agency for Electronic Media has launched an Internet website for media literacy - www.medijskapismenost.hr. This website is intended primarily for parents and teachers, as a support in...
Consultation on 2016 Annual Colloquium on ‘Media Pluralism and Democracy'
posted on 08 June, 2016   (public)
Consultation on 2016 Annual Colloquium on ‘Media Pluralism and Democracy' We would like to raise your attention to the public consultation launched by the European Commission which purpose is to feed into the second Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights which...
On-Demand Services and the Material Scope of the AVMSD: IRIS Plus report
posted on 07 June, 2016   (public)
On-Demand Services and the Material Scope of the AVMSD: IRIS Plus report Against the background of the proposal for an updated Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) presented on the 25 May 2016 by the European Commission, a new free to download report on “...
CNMC to host the 10th MNRA Technical Commission Meeting on 1st July in Madrid
posted on 03 June, 2016   (public)
CNMC to host the 10th MNRA Technical Commission Meeting on 1st July in Madrid The 10th MNRA Technical Commission Meeting will be held in Madrid (Spain), on 1st July 2016. Under the current MNRA Vice-presidency – CNMC (the Spanish National Commission for Markets and...
Access to TV platforms: EAO report for the European Commission
posted on 27 May, 2016   (public)
Access to TV platforms: EAO report for the European Commission In April 2016, the European Audiovisual Observatory published a report based on its work carried out in 2015  for the DG COMM of the European Commission, which looks at the way in which national systems...
A new Chairperson for the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media
posted on 25 May, 2016   (public)
A new Chairperson for the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media Further to a recent decision of the Board of the Council of 9 May 2016, Ms. Maria Stoyanova has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media (CEM) for a term of 6 years...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: CRA's Director General officially appointed
posted on 28 April, 2016   (public)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: CRA's Director General officially appointed After a years-long standstill, the Director General of the Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA), the convergent regulatory authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has officially been appointed. On 26...
Media Literacy: Ofcom's reports on Media Use and Attitudes towards Media
posted on 21 April, 2016   (public)
Media Literacy: Ofcom's reports on Media Use and Attitudes towards Media On 21 April 2016, Ofcom has published two research reports on how people use, understand and relate to different media in the UK. The first report, Adults’ Media Use and Attitudes, provides...
2016 Guide of Digital Channels in France
posted on 21 April, 2016   (public)
2016 Guide of Digital Channels in France The fourteenth edition of the Guide on Digital Channels was published in April 2016 by the French broadcasting regulator CSA, the DGMIC (Directorate General of Media and Cultural Industries of the Ministry of Culture and...
Legal Jurisdiction in Defamation Proceedings: ECtHR rules in Arlewin v. Sweden Case
posted on 15 April, 2016   (public)
Legal Jurisdiction in Defamation Proceedings: ECtHR rules in Arlewin v. Sweden Case On 1 March 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Sweden in breach for having denied access to a court to a person who wanted to bring defamation proceedings in his country of...
SSR-SRG Swisscom Ringier advertising joint venture: OFCOM and DETEC Decisions
posted on 13 April, 2016   (public)
SSR-SRG, Swisscom, Ringier advertising joint venture: OFCOM and DETEC Decisions The Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) and the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) have examined the SSR-SRG's participation in the ...
Television Access Services: Ofcom's final report for 2015
posted on 08 April, 2016   (public)
Television Access Services: Ofcom's final report for 2015 Under the Communications Act 2003, television broadcasters are required to deliver a certain proportion of their programmes with subtitles, signing and audio description to ensure those with hearing and visual...
French administrative court overrules CSA's decision to withdraw Numéro 23 licence
posted on 06 April, 2016   (public)
French administrative court overrules CSA's decision to withdraw Numéro 23 licence On 30 March 2016, the French "Conseil d'Etat" (the highest administrative jurisdiction in France) decided to invalidate the sanction imposed by the French CSA (Conseil...
Archiving Community Media online: CMDS report highlights best practices
posted on 05 April, 2016   (public)
Archiving Community Media online: CMDS Report highlights best practices The Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) has issued a research report, authored by Joost van Beek with contributions from Kate Coyer, which explores some of the challenges, obstacles, opportunities...
Helena Mandić appointed Chair of the Council of Europe’s MSI-MED
posted on 01 April, 2016   (public)
Helena Mandić appointed Chair of the Council of Europe’s MSI-MED The first meeting of the Committee of experts on media pluralism and transparency of media ownership (MSI-MED) took place on 22-23 of March 2016 in Strasbourg. On this occasion, Helena Mandić, EPRA...
Public Service News and Digital Media, a new report by the Reuters Institute
posted on 01 April, 2016   (public)
Public Service News and Digital Media, a new report by the Reuters Institute The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has published a new comparative report entitled "Public Service News and Digital Media" on 29 March 2016. The...
Assessing Media Pluralism in Europe: MPM2015 results published
posted on 31 March, 2016   (public)
Assessing Media Pluralism in Europe: MPM2015 results published On 30 March 2016, the European University Institute's Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) in Florence published the outcome of the application of the MPM2015, assessing media pluralism in...
New members for the Council of the AEM in Montenegro
posted on 14 March, 2016   (public)
New members for the Council of the AEM in Montenegro Further to a recent decision of the Parliament, three new members were recently appointed in the Agency for Electronic Media of Montenegro for terms of five years at a time. The Agency for Electronic Media is an...
AVMSD REFIT: Background research published
posted on 10 March, 2016   (public)
AVMSD REFIT: Background research published The European Commission (DG CONNECT) has published, on 4 March 2016, several studies it had commissioned in order to prepare the revision of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The main topics which are subject to...
Product Placement - Landmark German decision in "Pickup" case
posted on 07 March, 2016   (public)
Product Placement - Landmark German decision in "Pick up" case The Lower Saxony media regulator NLM objected to the product placement of the "Leibniz Pick up" chocolate biscuit made in 2014 in a sequence of the TV series "Ich bin ein Star –...

Archived Regulation News

OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media Dunja Mijatović reappointed
posted on 07 March, 2013   (public)
Picture credits: OSCE/Curtis Budden On 7 March 2013, the 57 OSCE participating States unanimously agreed to reappoint the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a second three-year term. Dunja Mijatović was appointed...
Social media: A first analysis by the French CSA
posted on 26 February, 2013   (public)
The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), the French regulatory authority in charge of broadcasting, published on 19 February 2013, a first analysis of the phenomenon of "social TV," which focuses on the delimitation of its scope, its development,...
Processing complaints: Refram publishes toolbox
posted on 05 February, 2013   (public)
On 29 January 2013, the Network of French-speaking media regulatory authorities (REFRAM) published a toolkit on how to process complaints - a mission at the core of the daily work of regulatory authorities. It is intended to help members of the network by providing them...
Jürgen Brautmeier appointed new Chair of German DLM
posted on 31 January, 2013   (public)
As of 1 January 2013, the chairmanship of the Conference of Directors of the Media Authorities (DLM) was taken over by Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier for a term of two years.  The DLM, which is composed of the legal representatives of the media authorities in Germany, acts...
A new chairperson and two new members for the French CSA
posted on 24 January, 2013   (public)
Mr Olivier Schrameck has officially been appointed as chairman of the French regulatory authority, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), as of 24 January 2013. He was nominated by French President François Hollande and replaces Michel Boyon for a 6...
High Level Group reports on Media Pluralism
posted on 23 January, 2013   (public)
On 21 January 2013, the High Level Group on Media Freedom on Pluralism convened by the European Commission delivered a 51 page report entitled A free and pluralistic media to sustain European democracy. On the basis of hearings and the analysis of recent research and studies...
Protection of minors on VOD: Ofcom fines Playboy
posted on 16 January, 2013   (public)
On 16 January 2013, Ofcom imposed a fine of £100,000 on the service provider Playboy TV/Benelux Limited for failing to protect children from potentially harmful pornographic material. Two on demand programme services (ODPS) owned by Playboy (Playboy TV and Demand Adult)...
Belgian CSA reports on New Media
posted on 11 January, 2013   (public)
On 11 January, the CSA of the French Community of Belgium published a report on "new media" (web TV, web radio, VOD, SVOD, catch-up TV and radio, etc). The 72 pages document provides a snapshot of the sector of new media by looking at the consumption of new...
EPRA co-organises MEDIADEM's final conference
posted on 07 January, 2013   (public)
In the wake of the success of the joint public workshop between EPRA and Cullen International on regulatory aspects of Connected TV held in May 2012, EPRA will be one of the co-organisers of another public event - together with the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign...
Ofcom's 7th International Communications Market Report published
posted on 13 December, 2012   (public)
On 13 December 2012, Ofcom published its seventh International Communications Market Report. The report examines the availability, take-up, price and use of TV, radio, broadband, telephone and postal services. The aim of the report is to benchmark the UK communications...
Regional TV beyond regional coverage: consultation of Swiss OFCOM
posted on 11 December, 2012   (public)
On 4 December 2012, the Federal Office of Communications of Switzerland (OFCOM) launched a public consultation on a draft law that would enable the licensed regional TV stations to transmit their programmes digitally outside their regional coverage areas. The public would be...
Protection of minors on VOD: Ofcom fines Strictly Broadband Limited
posted on 10 December, 2012   (public)
On Friday 7 December 2012, Ofcom imposed a financial penalty of £60,000 (GDP) on Strictly Broadband Limited in respect of its on-demand programmes service, provided through its website, “Strictly Broadband”. Between 31 May - 1 August 2012 users of the...
Belgian CSA assesses compliance of non-linear TV services with legal obligations
posted on 03 December, 2012   (public)
On 27 November 2012, the CSA of the French speaking Community of Belgium published its assessment on how non-linear television services complied with their legal obligations in 2011. The CSA assessed how four video-on-demand services fulfilled their obligations with regard...
Access of VOD services to people with disabilities: ATVOD report
posted on 29 November, 2012   (public)
On 28 November 2012, ATVOD (the independent co-regulator for the editorial content of video on demand services in UK) published its report on the accessibility of VOD services for people with disabilities of sight or hearing. The report is based on the ATVOD's annual...
Consultation on the review of the Ofcom rules on political broadcasts
posted on 23 November, 2012   (public)
On 19 November 2012, Ofcom opened a consultation on the review of the Rules on Party Political and Referendum Broadcasts and on the Guidance for broadcast coverage of elections. The review of the Rules is related to recent amendments of the Communications Act, requiring the...
A new Board for the Belgian CSA
posted on 22 November, 2012   (public)
On 8 November 2012, the Government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation appointed for a five-year mandate four new members of the Board of CSA of the French community of Belgium. Dominique Vosters was appointed as Chairman of CSA. He replaces Marc Janssen. The mandates of...
Protecting children in the digital world: European Parliament report
posted on 20 November, 2012   (public)
On 20 November 2012, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Protecting children in the digital world. The adopted report, prepared by Silvia Costa, highlights three main elements in terms of protecting minors in the digital era: education on new media, digital...
EPRA represented at the AMARC Forum on the Future of Community Radio
posted on 15 November, 2012   (public)
On 12-13 November 2012, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC Europe), in partnership with the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University and the Hungarian Federation of Free radios, organised a workshop on ...
Video sections of newspaper websites & AVMS: Swedish RA decisions
posted on 09 November, 2012   (public)
On 29 October 2012, the Swedish Broadcasting Commission (SBC) decided in four cases that video sections on newspaper websites were to be considered as audiovisual media services under the Swedish Radio and Television Act. The cases concerned websites of newspapers ...
Baltic regulators met in Riga
posted on 05 November, 2012   (public)
On 11 October 2012, the representatives of Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swedish regulatory authorities met in Riga to share their experience and to discuss practical questions related to media regulation. The Baltic regulators' meeting takes place every year...
Towards a convergent NRA in France? CSA's contribution
posted on 31 October, 2012   (public)
In the context of a consultation launched by the Prime Minister during summer, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, (CSA), published its contribution on the envisaged merger between CSA and ARCEP, the two French regulatory authorities in charge of broadcasting...
FICORA publishes market review on audiovisual content services in Finland
posted on 29 October, 2012   (public)
On 26 October 2012, The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) published a market review on the audiovisual content services. The review looks at the different ways how Finns watch audiovisual content, and is based on the data reported by operators and on the...
CMFE publishes first mapping of Community Media in Europe
posted on 24 October, 2012   (public)
On 22 October 2012, the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE), an international non-profit organisation which provides a common platform for networks, national federations and projects active in the "third media" sector, unveiled the outcome of its mapping exercise of...
SEE Digi.TV: outcome of second international conference
posted on 24 October, 2012   (public)
On 18-19 October 2012, the Post and Electronic Communications Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (APEK) held the 2nd international conference of the SEE Digi.TV project in Ljubljana. The event gathered more than 90 participants from regulatory authorities, TV and electronic...
Digital TV switchover completed in Ireland and UK
posted on 24 October, 2012   (public)
On 24 October 2012, Ireland and the United Kingdom turned off the analogue television signal. Now the television services in both countries are fully digital. In Ireland, the old TV network was replaced by a free-to-air digital terrestrial television service Saorview,...
On-demand services: Ofcom publishes consumer research results
posted on 23 October, 2012   (public)
Ofcom published results of the consumer research commissioned from the Essential Research Ltd on 23 October. The aim of the research was to explore consumer attitudes and behaviour in relation to on-demand audiovisual services and to help Ofcom understand which services are...
Digital Radio - Outcome of French consultation on standards for digital terrrestrial radio
posted on 22 October, 2012   (public)
Following a public consultation on standards for digital radio launched in April 2012 to seek the views of stakeholders, the French Minister of Culture and Communication published a summary of the responses to the consultation on 11 October 2012. The consultation...
ATVOD’s submissions concerning protection of minors on VOD and media convergence
posted on 19 October, 2012   (public)
On 17 October 2012, the Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD), which is the independent co-regulator for the editorial content of VOD services in UK, published its submissions to the consultation by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety on parental controls and to the...
Ofcom’s Digital Radio Report 2012
posted on 18 October, 2012   (public)
On 17 October 2012, Ofcom published its Digital Radio Report 2012. Following the Government’s Digital Radio Action Plan launched in July 2010, Ofcom was requested to report annually on the availability and take-up of digital radio services. The Action Plan set the...
Gender Equality: REFRAM launches an internal call for project and publishes a handbook
posted on 18 October, 2012   (public)
The Francophone Network Media Regulators (REFRAM) has launched a call for tender among its members for a pilot project in favour of gender equality. This call seeks to identify and fund projects that encourage and support the promotion of gender equality in the broadcast...