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On 31 January 2018, the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA), meeting in plenary assembly, decided to withdraw the mandate of Radio France’s President, Mathieu Gallet. The decision, to take effect on 1 March, follows a court judgment delivered on 15 January giving him a one-year suspended prison sentence and fining him EUR 20,000 for favouritism during his term of office at the French national audiovisual institute (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel - INA). He has lodged an appeal. Since the 2013 reform, under Article 47-4 of the Act of 30 September...

In expressing his good wishes for the New Year, the President of the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA, Olivier Schrameck summed up the achievements of the past year and presented the CSA’s prospects for the coming year. He called for an “essential readjustment of all the regulatory equilibria”, with regulation extended to include digital audiovisual services, in terms of both scope and method. This would cover relations between the traditional audiovisual media and services platforms, the articulation of public-service and market offers, the balance...

Two associations asked the Conseil d’Etat to annul the following provisions of Decree no. 2017-150 of 8 February 2017 on film classification: “II. - The classification measure … is proportionate to the need to protect children and young people, and in keeping with the sensitivities and stages in personality development specific to each age group and with respect for human dignity. If the work or document in question includes scenes of sexual activity or extreme violence which - particularly by their cumulative effect - may be seriously disturbing for minors, or present violence in a favourable...

The national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) has taken the high moral ground in its supervision of the way women are treated in the audiovisual media. At its latest plenary assembly, on 20 December 2017, it announced a record fine of EUR 1 million against the youth-oriented radio station NRJ, and served formal notice to France Télévisions to comply with its undertakings with regard to combating violence against women. The fine imposed on NRJ follows the broadcasting - during the “C’ Cauet” programme on 9 December 2016 - of a hoax telephone call during...

On 3 January 2018, at his new year reception for the media, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, confirmed that a public audiovisual reform bill would be tabled in 2018. He thought it was “necessary to hold a detailed and very dispassionate review of public audiovisual regulations”. Therefore, by the end of the first quarter of 2018, the committee working on behalf the Minister of Culture, Françoise Nyssen, will submit shared, costed and structured proposals for the “ambitious transformation of the public audiovisual sector” that she announced on 21 December 2017. Input will be provided...