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Based on Articles 27 and 33 of the Law of 30 September 1986, the decree of 3 October 2022 extends the temporary authorisation of television advertising for the cinema sector by 18 months, postponing its expiry from 6 October 2022 to 6 April 2024 on account of the unusual nature of the period since authorisation was granted, which has rendered it impossible to fully assess the consequences of the measure. Initially introduced under the decree of 5 August 2020 (until 6 February 2022), the authorisation had already been extended through Article 10 of decree no. 2021-1922 of 30 December 2021 to...

The Canal Plus group and the company C8 asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision taken on 3 March 2021 by the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory body — CSA, replaced by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique on 1 January 2022), asking providers of audiovisual communication services to “measure all the speaking time in audiovisual media” of A... B..., Nicolas Hulot, Laurent Joffrin, Arnaud Montebourg and Manuel Valls. The Conseil d’Etat pointed...

On 16 September, Bouygues, RTL Group, TF1 and the M6 group announced that the proposed merger between the TF1 and M6 groups, announced on 17 May 2021, had been abandoned. The merger would have brought seven free-to-air DTT channels (TF1, M6, TMC, W9, Gulli, LCI and TF1 Séries Films) within the same group. The decision comes after the parties were questioned by the board of the Autorité de la concurrence (French competition authority) on 5 and 6 September. Following an in-depth examination, the competition authority noted that television remained a very powerful medium for the French...

The Reporters Without Borders organisation asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) to annul a decision of 5 April 2022 in which the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication – ARCOM) had rejected its request to issue a formal notice to the broadcaster CNews pursuant to Article 42 of the Law of 30 September 1986. Reporters Without Borders requested that the Constitutional Council should verify the constitutionality of Articles 3-1, 13 and 42 of the law. It argued that,...

Following the broadcast of the programme “Face à l'info” on CNews on 20 September 2020, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (French audiovisual regulatory body – CSA) (now ARCOM) fined the broadcaster EUR 200,000 pursuant to Article 42-1 of the Law of 30 September 1986 after the political commentator Eric Zemmour said several times on air that foreign “unaccompanied minors” were “for the most part”, “thieves”, “rapists” and “murderers”. Eric Zemmour and the broadcaster both asked the Conseil d’Etat...