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On 6 March this year, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) sent letters of observation to the providers of five services that allowed minors to access pornographic content without age verification. As stipulated in Article 10-1 of the Loi pour la confiance en l’économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy), as amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space...

In accordance with the procedure provided for in section V of Article 10-1 of the Law of 21 June 2004 instituted by the Law of 21 May 2024, an internet service provider sought the annulment of a decision of 6 March 2025, in which the ARCOM president, pursuant to section III of Article 10-1, had notified it of a web address to which it had been ordered to block access within 48 hours for a period of two years, and asked it to redirect users wishing to access it to an ARCOM information page. In the alternative, the company asked the court to stay the proceedings and to refer eight questions to the...

In a decision dated 19 March 2025, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) served formal notice on Eutelsat to stop broadcasting two Russian channels, STS and Kanal 5. These channels are among the 28 Russian media undertakings controlled by the Russian company JSC National Media Group, which has seen its financial resources frozen pursuant to Article 2 of the EU Council Regulation of 17 March 2014, resulting in a ban on transmission of these channels. In so doing, ARCOM is, for the first time, implementing...

La Quadrature du net, the Ligue des droits de l'homme, residents of New Caledonia and others asked the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State), on the grounds of abuse of power, to annul the French prime minister’s decision of 14 May 2024 to interrupt access to the online public communication service TikTok in New Caledonia due to exceptional circumstances. The prime minister lifted this measure on 29 May 2024. At the same time, a decree issued by the Council of Ministers on 15 May 2024 declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia with effect from the same day. This ended 12 days later,...

NRJ 12 and C8 asked the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State) to annul the decision taken by the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) not to renew their digital terrestrial television licences on the grounds that it had exceeded its powers. They also requested the annulment of ARCOM’s decision to grant licences to Ouest-France TV and CMI France, as well as its decision not to allocate all the frequencies mentioned in the call for applications after the Canal Plus group announced it was removing...