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In accordance with Article 49, paragraph 2, of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on digital services (DSA), the Italian legislator has designed the Italian Communications Regulatory (Agcom) as Digital Services Coordinator (Article 15 of the law decree of 15 September 2023, n. 123 entitled "Urgent measures to combat youth hardship, educational poverty and juvenile crime, as well as for the safety of minors in the digital environment"). Agcom has to guarantee the effectiveness of the rights and the obligations established by the...

New measures to protect minors in the digital sphere have been introduced by Italian legislative decree No. 123 of 15 September 2023, entitled "Urgent measures to combat youth hardship, educational poverty and juvenile crime, as well as for the safety of minors in the digital sphere". In particular, in order to guarantee a safer digital environment for minors, Article 13 provides for new measures aimed at the manufacturers of electronic communication devices (smartphones, computers, tablets and, where compatible, video game consoles, and other possible connected objects such as televisions,...

In pursuance of its inherent mandate as codified in Article 1, paragraph 6, letter c), No. 1 of its founding statute, the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) has seen fit to formally submit to the government a warning on the Italian statute governing equal access to media platforms during electoral campaigns, referendum initiatives, and broader political discourses, namely, Law No. 28 of 22 February 2000, commonly referred to as the "level playing field" or "par condicio". The warning is motivated by the need to review the legislation governing access to the media...

With the adoption of Law n. 93 of 14 July 2023, in force since 8 August 2023, the Italian Communications Regulatory Authority (AGCOM) has been provided with new and relevant powers for copyright protection on electronic communications networks (see IRIS 2021-8:1/28, 2020-7:1/26, 2019-2:1/17. 2017-10:1/25, 2017-5:1/ 26). In particular, pursuant to article 2 of this Law, AGCOM is now entitled to order service providers, including network access providers, to prevent access to illegally disseminated contents within 30 minutes by blocking DNS resolution of domain names and blocking the routing of...

On 21 July, AGCOM launched with resolution no. 178/23/CNS a public consultation on the measures to be adopted to ensure influencers' compliance with the Consolidated Law on audiovisual media services. AGCOM's goal of extending the scope of the legal and regulatory framework to these subjects stems from the observation that the activities carried out by influencers are comparable to the provision of audiovisual media services. The activities involved are those carried out by subjects denominated in current language with the term of "influencer", but also "vlogger",...