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Refine your searchIRIS 2024-6:1/6 [IE] Online Safety Code notified to the European Commission | |
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Following its public consultation launched between 8 December 2023 and 31 January 2024, and consultation with its Youth Advisory Committee, Coimisiún na Meán, the Irish regulator, published an updated draft Online Safety Code on 27 May 2024. The Code, which will apply to video-sharing platforms (VSPs) headquartered in Ireland, was submitted to the European Commission on the same day. Back in December 2023, Coimisiún na Meán had already designated 10 VSP providers as falling under its jurisdiction (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, TikTok, Tumblr,... |
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IRIS 2024-5:1/5 [IE] Guidelines for broadcast coverage of elections | |
On 30 April 2024, the Irish media regulator Coimisiún na Meán published Guidelines in Respect of Broadcast Coverage of Elections (hereinafter “the Guidelines”), in advance of the European and local elections and the election for a directly elected Mayor of Limerick, scheduled to be held on 7 June 2024. These Guidelines were developed further to Rule 27 of the Code of Fairness, Objectivity and Impartiality in News and Current Affairs (hereinafter “the Code”), reviewed in 2022. The Guidelines apply only to broadcasters (excluding print, social media, audiovisual... |
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IRIS 2024-2:1/15 [IE] Reddit challenges designation as video-sharing platform by Irish media regulator | |
Following the publication on 10 November of its Designation Decision Framework for video-sharing platform (VSP) services, the Irish media regulator Coimisiún na Meán (the Media Commission) issued a series of notices of designation to services established in Ireland that it estimates fall under the designation of VSP. Pursuant to section 139H(3)(a) of the Broadcasting Act, 10 such services (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Udemy, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, Tumblr and Reddit) were notified of their designation as VSPs between 22 December and 29 December 2023. As foreseen by the... |
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IRIS 2023-10:1/2 [IE] Irish Media Commission publishes a Designation Decision Framework for video-sharing platform services | |
On 10 November 2023, the Irish media regulator Coimisiún na Meán (the Media Commission) published a Designation Decision Framework (further referred to as “Framework”) for video-sharing platforms services (VSPS) to inform individual providers of online services of the assessment and decision-making process it intends to follow in order to determine whether a named service meets the defining criteria of a VSPS, and whether the provider of such a service is under Irish jurisdiction. The Online Safety and Media Regulation Act of 2022 amending the Broadcasting Act of 2009,... |
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IRIS 2023-7:1/9 [IE] Media Regulator publishes work programme | |
On 20 June 2023, the Irish national regulatory authority - Coimisiún na Meán – published its first work programme. The Commission was established in March 2023, succeeding to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), which was dissolved under the provisions of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022. The work programme runs until February 2024 and includes the following main objectives: - Implementing new regulatory regimes for how online service providers deal with harmful and illegal content - Regulating broadcasting and on-demand services - Supporting... |