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Amendments to the 2005 Law of Georgia “On Broadcasting” were adopted by the Parliament of Georgia on 12 June 2025, and entered into force on 13 June 2025. The Law provides stricter accountability requirements for “media service and video sharing service providers” and “media service and video sharing service platforms” to the national media regulator, the Communications Commission (ComCom). It rephrases para 9 of Article 70 (last amended on 22 December 2022 by Law No 2482-Xრს-Xმპ) by stipulating that the media shall also provide, if requested by the...

The UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) – the BBC, ITV, STV, Channels 4 and 5, and S4C – remain central to public service media (PSM). Yet Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, warns that their survival, and with it a cornerstone of UK culture, is threatened by mounting financial pressures, technological change, and global competition. Ofcom’s July 2025 review presents stakeholder proposals, weighing their benefits and practical implications, building on its statutory five-year assessment under section 264 of the Communications Act 2003. In December 2024,...

AGCOM – Italy’s Communications Authority and designated Digital Services Coordinator – has formally adopted its Guidelines and Code of Conduct for Influencers. Given the relevance and innovative scope of the matter, AGCOM established a dedicated multi-stakeholder working group, involving representatives of the industry and institutional actors, to develop a shared framework. The draft text was subsequently submitted to a public consultation process at the end of 2024 (see IRIS 2025-1:1/18 and 2024-2:1/26). The final Guidelines revise the initial version adopted in 2024, integrating...

Webgroup Czech Republic AS and NKL Associates SRO raised a priority question of constitutionality in support of their requests for the annulment of decision no. 2024-20 of 9 October 2024 of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (the French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM). The ARCOM decision concerns the reference framework for determining the minimum technical requirements applicable to age verification systems designed to prevent minors from accessing pornographic content, and was issued in accordance with Article 10(I) of the Law of...

On 23 May 2025, the Irish national media regulatory authority, Coimisiún na Meán (the Media Commission) de-designated Reddit as a video-sharing platform (VSP) service. The de-designation does not come as an indication that the initial designation of the service was incorrect, but due to the fact that service provider of Reddit is no longer under the jurisdiction of Ireland, and therefore not subject to the Media Commission’s online safety codes. Reddit had been designated as a VSP services at the end of 2023, when the Media Commission issued a series of notices to services...