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On 27 March 2026, the Senate of the Supreme Court of Latvia (Augstākās tiesas Senāta Administratīvo lietu), in case SKA-98/2026 (A420178222), ruled that the National Electronic Mass Media Council (Nacionālā elektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu padome – NEPLP) possesses broad powers and considerable freedom of action to restrict television channels whose ownership chains connect to sanctioned entities, even where the governing statute at the material time did not provide an explicit authorisation covering the specific circumstances. The underlying NEPLP decision No. 126/1-2 of 7 March...

Amendments to the Latvian Copyright Law were adopted on 12 December 2024, and came into force on 11 January 2025. These amendments to the Copyright Law expand the powers of the National Electronic Mass Media Council (the Council – NEMMC) to monitor the use of copyright and related rights objects in the online environment and to restrict access to websites where these objects are published without proper authorisation. The Copyright Law is supplemented with Chapter XI, which establishes the procedure for restricting access to websites where copyrighted or related rights objects are illegally...

On 5 April 2023, amendments to the Copyright Law came into force. With the amendments, the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) was transposed into Latvian law, providing for significant changes in copyright regulation, affecting both authors and performers, as well as users of works. Transposition of the DSM Directive Appropriate and proportionate remuneration: One of the most significant changes is the introduction of the principle of appropriate and proportionate remuneration. Namely, it will be necessary to determine a fair remuneration to the author...

On 27 July 2022, the new Electronic Communication Law (ECL) which transposes the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) entered into force in Latvia. Specifically, by transposing the EECC, the new ECL: - enhances the deployment of 5G networks by ensuring availability and competition for investments - benefits and protects end-users by: ensuring access to the network, guaranteeing better cybersecurity, increasing the level of protection of citizens in emergency situations, and increasing the transparency of service providers, as well as benefiting end-users in other ways - adds...

On 6 December 2022, the National Electronic Mass Media Council of Latvia issued a decision cancelling the broadcast permit issued only a few months earlier, on 6 June 2022, to TV Rain - an independent Russian channel - for the production of the TV Rain programme. This final decision followed the initiation of several administrative procedures and decisions by the Council. The Council’s first decision from 10 November 2022 concerned mere compliance with the “Basic operation conditions” of the electronic media’s broadcast permit. It pointed out that the programme was not...