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On 2 February 2015, the Government of Luxembourg adopted the Grand-ducal regulation setting the amount and modalities for a tax collected by the Independent Audiovisual Authority of Luxembourg for supervision of audio and audiovisual media services (Règlement grand-ducal fixant le montant et les modalités de paiement des taxes à percevoir par l’Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l’audiovisuel en matière de surveillance des services de médias audiovisuels et sonores). The Grand-ducal regulation details the fees to be paid by providers of sound and audiovisual media service providers falling...

Accompanying the adoption of the new Act on the Luxembourgish support scheme for the audiovisual sector (see this IRIS issue), a Grand-Ducal regulation was adopted, on 4 November 2014, which entered into force on 5 December 2014. The Grand-Ducal regulation on the execution of the Act of 22 September 2014 on the national fund for the support of audiovisual production (Règlement grand-ducal portant execution de la loi du 22 septembre 2014 relative au Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle) - hereinafter the regulation - lays down the conditions, criteria and modalities for receiving...

On 22 September 2014, the Act on the national fund for the support of audiovisual production (Loi relative au Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle - FNAV Act) was adopted. It was published in the Luxembourg official journal (Mémorial) on 10 October 2014. The FNAV Act substantially modifies the Luxembourgish support scheme for audiovisual works, which had existed for more than two decades. Until the entry into force of the FNAV Act, the promotion of the Luxembourg film sector took two forms, both of which were administered under the umbrella of the Luxembourg film fund: In 1988,...

The Government of Luxembourg adopted a Grand-ducal regulation on the protection of minors in audiovisual media services (Règlement grand-ducal relatif à la protection des mineurs dans les services des médias audiovisuels) on 8 January 2015. In 2013, the European Commission had initiated infringement procedures against Luxembourg for failure to implement Article 12 and 27 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The regulation thus specifies the measures providers of audiovisual media services are required to take to ensure the protection of minors in accordance with said rules of the...

On 25 July 2014, the Government of Luxembourg proposed a grand-ducal regulation on the protection of minors in audiovisual media services based on the Loi sur les médias électroniques (Law on Electronic Media - LEM). This proposal is closely linked to an infringement procedure brought by the European Commission pursuant to Art. 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The Commission reprimanded Luxembourg for having failed to implement Art. 12 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which aims at protecting minors in on-demand audiovisual media services. In its reasoned...