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On 6 April 2022, the Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media — ERC), issued a decision stating that although on-demand audiovisual operators and services, and video-sharing platforms were both subject to registration with the ERC, only the first were subject to its general regulation and intervention, and to the Transparency Law, as a result of their editorial responsibility. When the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Directive 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 amending Directive...

For some time, Estonia has led the way when it comes to technological advancements and digital innovation. Therefore, its failure to transpose the Audio-Visual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and the European Electronic Communications Code in a timely manner has brought the country into total disrepute. Media services are regulated by the Media Services Act (MSA), in force since 16 January 2011 (as amended). The implementation of the AVMSD was initially scheduled for May 2021. Finally, on 16th February 2022, the Act on Amendments to the Media Services Act and Amendments to Other...

In a press release of 1 March 2022, concerning its decisions in cases brought by Google Ireland Ltd. and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, the Verwaltungsgericht Köln (Cologne Administrative Court – VG Köln) announced that the reporting obligations added to the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act – NetzDG) under Article 7 of the Gesetz zur besseren Bekämpfung des Rechtsextremismus und der Hasskriminalität (Act on improving the fight against right-wing extremism and hate crime), which entered into force on 1 February 2022, were inapplicable because they...

On 4 November 2021, the Italian Government approved Legislative Decree no. 208/2021 (“New AVMS Code”) implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council that amended Directive 2010/13/EU (“AVMS Directive”). Legislative Decree no. 208/2021 has repealed and substituted Legislative Decree No. 177/2005 (“Previous AVMS Code”). As is customary in Italy, the European Delegation Act 2019-2020 entrusted the Government with the transposition of several EU Directives into national law, with Article 3 dictating the guiding principles to...

Video-sharing platforms, which are now covered by Article 2 of the Law of 30 September 1986, are subject to certain obligations set out in Articles 59 to 61 of the Law. Decree no. 2021-1922 of 30 December 2021 explains these obligations in respect of commercial communications that are marketed, sold or organised by these platforms. Commercial communications (in particular advertising, sponsorship, teleshopping and product placement) are “images, with or without sound, designed to directly or indirectly promote products, services or the image of a natural or legal person who exercises an economic...