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On 5 January 2025, the National Council on Television and Radio (NCTR), the independent media regulator in Ukraine, issued explanations and clarifications regarding the registration by the NCTR of certain media services that do not use radio frequencies. The NCTR specifically referred to the formula of paragraph 38 of part 1 of Article 1 (Definitions of notions) of the 2022 Statute “On the Media” which defines a “video-sharing platform” as a platform “a separate part of which or an integral functionality of which is the distribution to a general audience for...

Pursuant to Article 33a(2) of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2018/1808 (AVMSD) and to paragraph 5 of Article 30C of the Radio and Television Broadcasters Law 7(I)/1998 (as amended), the Radio Television and Digital Services Authority of Cyprus (RTDSA) has submitted to the European Commission its three-year country report on media literacy. It should be noted that the RTDSA has a statutory mandate to promote and develop media literacy skills in Cyprus. This report was also communicated to the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus....

On 20 January 2026, the Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji (National Broadcasting Council – KRRiT) published a report entitled “No editing, no procedure, no balance. Monitoring of the current affairs programmes of TVP S.A. (in liquidation)”, which examined TVP S.A. in the context of the statutory requirement for public media to ensure pluralism, impartiality, balance and independence (Article 21(1) of the Radio and Television Act of 29 December 1992). The report aims to verify whether the current affairs programming of the aforementioned public television station meets the...

Following the alignment of the national audiovisual media regulatory framework with European Union law, in particular the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD)(EU) 2018/1808, North Macedonia introduced further legislative and regulatory measures aimed at adapting audiovisual media regulation to the digital environment and to new forms of audiovisual content creation and distribution carried out via online platforms. This alignment was implemented within the framework of the Law amending the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia...

Autocontrol, the Spanish organisation that promotes self-regulation in the advertising industry, has made certain amendments to the code of conduct on advertising through influencers, which came into force in October 2025. This update is part of the commitment of Law No.13/2022, of 7 July, on Audiovisual Communication (LGCA), to self-regulation and co-regulation codes, and continues a long tradition of self-regulation in the advertising sector in Spain. Although the Code of Conduct on advertising through influencers follows the lines of the previous 2021 code, which it replaces, Autocontrol...