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On 1 July 2010 the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on the question of the compliance of State aid granted by the French State to France Télévisions, a French public company which owns the public service channels France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, France Ô and RFO, with the rules of the EC Treaty. The aid was intended to cover the costs of public service broadcasting undertaken by France Télévisions in view of the decision of the French authorities, announced initially in 2008, to eliminate advertising on public channels, which would then financially rely on subsidies collected...

A few years ago, Le Pen, the president of the French National Front party, was fined EUR 10,000 for incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence towards a group of people because of their origin or their membership or non-membership of a specific ethnic group, nation, race or religion, on account of statements he had made about Muslims in France in an interview with the Le Monde daily newspaper. In the interview, Le Pen asserted, among other things, that “the day there are no longer 5 million but 25 million Muslims in France, they will be in charge”. He was subsequently sentenced...

On 20 April 2010 the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (audiovisual regulatory body - CSA) published the summary of the consultation it had embarked on in June 2009 concerning the regulation of on-demand audiovisual media services. The text lays down general guidelines, with details of interactive applications and the associated data for television and radio services, the procedures for authorising the new services, and interactive advertising. One of the topics concerns catch-up TV and the way it is made available to the public. To promote its development, the CSA has decided to authorise the...

On 16 May 2010, Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture and Communication, met his South African counterpart Lulama Xingwana in Cannes, and the two Ministers signed the first ever agreement on cinematographic co-production that will offer films co-produced by France and the Republic of South Africa the possibility of access to the support schemes in operation in both countries. This means that such films will be eligible for the European quotas for broadcasting in television channels, thereby increasing the channels’ interest in the films and possibility of funding them. A new cooperation programme...

The result of an agreement reached between producers, authors and ACCES (Association des Chaînes Conventionnées Editrices de Services - association of channels under convention that edit services) on 23 July 2009, and signed in the presence of Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture and Communication, the Decree laying down the framework of regulations applicable to the production obligations of cable, satellite and ADSL channels was gazetted on 29 April 2010. The text imposes a minimum creative contribution from the channels, but leaves them choice in distributing their investments among the...