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On 22 February the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (French national audiovisual regulatory authority - CSA) delivered an explanatory opinion in response to notification from the Ministry of Culture of draft legislation amending the terms of reference of the national companies in the public audiovisual sector (France Télévisions, Radio France, and France Média Monde, the company responsible for France’s audiovisual presence outside France) with a view to defining the operating methods of the ethical committees instituted by the Act of 14 November 2016. The CSA qualified the new legislation as...

On 7 February, the Conseil d’Etat delivered an interesting decision, recalling that anyone may refer a failing on the part of an operator to the national audiovisual regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) with a view to the CSA ordering it to comply with its obligations. In the case at issue, a militant environmentalist notified the CSA of a number of failings he felt had been committed by the company Radio France with regard to the rules on broadcasting advertising messages laid down in Articles 32, 34 and 42 of its terms of reference which, at the time, did not authorise the...

In a ruling of 10 February 2017, the Conseil d’Etat (Council of State) confirmed that the national audiovisual regulatory authority in France, the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), had acted lawfully by issuing a formal notice to a radio station that had broadcast information likely to endanger the lives of people being held hostage during a terrorist attack. On 9 January 2015, while terrorist acts were being committed simultaneously at different locations, the radio station Europe 1 had broadcast live information concerning police attempts to catch the terrorists responsible for the Charlie...

Facebook and Google have simultaneously announced the deployment in France in the near future of arrangements for flagging fake news. To achieve this, Facebook has joined forces with eight French partner organisations in the media (Le Monde, Agence France-Presse, BFM-TV, France Télévisions, France Médias Monde, L’Express, Libération, and 20 Minutes) so that users can flag information they believe to be fake. The links flagged are to be gathered together on a portal to which the partner media organisations will have access, and they will then be able to check the information. If two partner organisations...

The official presidential campaign began in the media on 1 February 2017, in accordance with the CSA’s recommendation of 7 September 2016, which was adopted under the Act of 24 April 2016. The campaign is divided into three stages. (i) From 1 February to 20 March candidates and their supporters will enjoy equal speaking time and airtime. This will be calculated for each declared or presumed candidate – not for each political grouping. The principle of equity means that television channels and radio stations must allocate speaking time and airtime to the candidates and their supporters according...