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The Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims at regulating digital services and combating illegal content online, has been fully applicable across Europe since 17 February 2024. In Luxembourg, Bill No. 8309 on the implementation of the DSA was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés) on 2 April 2025, and the law entered into force on 11 April 2025. According to Article 2 of the law, the Luxembourg Competition Authority was officially designated as the competent authority for the application of the DSA, thereby assuming the role of Digital Services Coordinator (DSC)....

Luxembourg-based company CLT-UFA S.A., Hungarian Broadcasting Division, notified the on-demand audiovisual media service RTL+ (VOD) to the Luxembourg authorities, thereby granting jurisdiction to the country’s regulator. RTL+ broadcasts programmes in Hungary, including the scripted reality show Való Világ. On 18 July 2024, RTL+ broadcast an episode of the Való Világ programme in which a male contestant engaged in unwanted physical touching, including of a female contestant’s private parts, reflecting clear physical coercion of the female contestant....

On 28 February 2024, television channel RTL Gold broadcast the programme “Mónika – A KIBESZÉLŐ SHOW”. On 13 March 2024, the Autorité Luxembourgeoise Indépendante de l’Audiovisuelle (Luxembourg Independent Authority for Audiovisual Media – ALIA) received a complaint from the Hungarian media regulator NMHH following a viewer's complaint. Since RTL Gold’s broadcasting licence was issued in Luxembourg (to the company s.a. CLT-Ufa), the matter fell under ALIA’s jurisdiction. However, the complaint was examined in the context of...

The Luxembourgish government agreed on a law for the implementation of the EU Digital Service Act (DSA) on 8 September 2023. Subsequently, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Economy, it deposited the bill with the Chambre des députés (Chamber of Deputies) on 14 September 2023. The bill proposes the provisions necessary in Luxembourgish law to implement the DSA concerning those parts of EU regulation that rely on additional national rules. The DSA establishes unified rules for a secure online environment to support the effective operation of the internal market for "intermediary...

On 15 May 2023, the board of ALIA (the Luxembourg Independent Authority for Audiovisual Media) issued a decision concerning the programme "Ficus for the Boss" broadcast on 19 January 2022 on the N1 television channel as part of a current affairs programme, after the REM (the Serbian Regulatory Authority) had forwarded a complaint reporting hateful content against Ana Brnabić (prime minister and member of the Serbian Progressive Party). According to the REM, the content of the programme stigmatised the prime minister by making an inappropriate comparison between her and people who collaborated...