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On 18 May 2026, the General Chamber of the Flemish Media Regulator (Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media - VRM) issued two decisions against Flemish influencers for failing to clearly identify commercial communication in their online videos. In the cases of VRM v. Josefien Weyns (Decision No. 2026/034) and VRM v. Galatea Rommelaere (Decision No. 2026/031), both content creators were fined EUR 1 500 for violating Article 53 of the Flemish Media Decree (i.e. the decree of 27 March 2009 on radio broadcasting and television), which requires that commercial communications be “readily recognisable as...

The Higher Audiovisual Council (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel – CSA) of the French Community of Belgium recently published an evaluation report on the fulfilment of the public service remit and implementation of five other specific objectives by the 12 French-speaking Belgian local media organisations that replaced local television stations. The public service obligations are set out in agreements between the Government of the French Community and each local media organisation. They relate to news, cultural development, lifelong learning (including media...

The legislature of the French Community of Belgium, also commonly known as the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, has amended the Decree of 4 February 2021 on audiovisual media services and video-sharing services with a view to implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a common framework for media services in the internal market and amending Directive 2010/13/EU (European Media Freedom Act). The amending decree was promulgated on 2 April 2026. Its main provision is to designate the Higher Audiovisual Council of the French...

On 26 March 2026, the Belgian Constitutional Court handed down ruling no. 36/2026 on the action for annulment brought by the Dutch company Netflix International BV (Netflix) against the new system of contributions to audiovisual production in French-speaking Belgium. This contribution is made either in the form of investment in co-production, pre-purchasing of audiovisual works or commissioning of programmes, or in the form of a payment to the Film and Audiovisual Centre of the French-speaking Community of Belgium (Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française...

Two regulatory authorities, one French and the other French-speaking Belgian, have reached an agreement on the procedure to be applied in the event of complaints relating to the Belgian versions of several French television services produced by the French public company France Télévisions. The French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique - Arcom) is responsible for regulating the France 2, France 3 and France 5 services. A Belgian version of these three services has been launched, with commercial...