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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...

On 5 November 2014, the Independent Audiovisual Authority of Luxembourg (Autorité luxembourgeoise indépendante de l’audiovisuel - ALIA) issued its second decision which falls in the category of “decisions to be published” since it has been established by the law of August 2013 (see IRIS 2013-10/32). In its first published decision of February 2014, ALIA rejected an application for a new radio station (see IRIS 2014-7/27). This new decision concerns a programme transmitted on television in Belgium. The complaint, which was originally brought before the Belgian regulatory authority of the French...

On 18 July 2014, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg formally ratified and implemented the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, as well as its Additional Protocol concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems. As the Grand Duchy was one of the last members of the Council of Europe that had signed (in 2003), but not ratified the Convention and its Protocol, the Chambre des députés (parliamentary assembly) had become subject to pressure from a number of international organisations. Luxembourg had already introduced, before the increasing...