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On 26 March 2026, the Belgian Constitutional Court handed down ruling no. 36/2026 on the action for annulment brought by the Dutch company Netflix International BV (Netflix) against the new system of contributions to audiovisual production in French-speaking Belgium. This contribution is made either in the form of investment in co-production, pre-purchasing of audiovisual works or commissioning of programmes, or in the form of a payment to the Film and Audiovisual Centre of the French-speaking Community of Belgium (Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française...

Two regulatory authorities, one French and the other French-speaking Belgian, have reached an agreement on the procedure to be applied in the event of complaints relating to the Belgian versions of several French television services produced by the French public company France Télévisions. The French audiovisual regulator (Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique - Arcom) is responsible for regulating the France 2, France 3 and France 5 services. A Belgian version of these three services has been launched, with commercial...

The Belgian federated entities recently signed a new cooperation agreement designed to extend the "GoedGezien" (in French "BienVu") film classification system to all films distributed in Belgian cinemas. The agreement harmonises the implementation of film classification throughout the country and regulates the relevant administrative and financial aspects. The "GoedGezien" system classifies content according to the age of the viewers (all audiences, 6, 10, 12, 16 and 18) and the nature of the content (violence, anxiety, sex, use of addictive substances, coarse...

The Flemish Media Regulator (VRM) recently published a report on the impartiality of news reporting by VRT, the public broadcaster of the Flemish Community of Belgium. The report was drawn up at the VRM’s request by the University of Antwerp’s Media, Middenveld en Politiek (Media, Civil Society and Politics – M²P) unit. The report is based on monitoring of television news, current affairs and election programmes broadcast by VRT during 2024 and compares the results with those of the private broadcaster VTM. The monitoring exercise covered the news programmes available...

Belgium's digital services coordinator (DSC) and other authorities responsible for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act – DSA) recently published their first joint report, covering the year 2024. The Belgian DSC is the Institut belge des services postaux et des télécommunications (Belgian postal and telecommunications authority – IBPT), which is also one of the competent authorities alongside the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish media regulator – VRM), the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (Higher Audiovisual...