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Following the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of a snap election on 3 June 2017 by the Prime Minister of Malta one year prior to the scheduled end of the legislature, the Broadcasting Authority has launched a scheme of election broadcasts for the political parties participating in the general elections. The political parties concerned are the two main political parties represented in the House of Representatives during the last legislature, namely the Labour Party (the party in government) and the Nationalist Party (the party in opposition), and the smaller parties, these being the Green...

Emmanuel Macron’s success in the presidential election on 7 May 2017 has added further fuel to the challenging of the principles of audiovisual regulation and observance of political diversity in the media. With the prospect of the parliamentary elections on 11 and 18 June 2017, the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) issued a decision on 23 May 2017 laying down the total broadcasting times allocated to each political party or grouping for the upcoming parliamentary elections, and specifying their number and duration. Contesting the amount of time...

The report of the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) represents the data and findings based on the specialised monitoring of the activity of media service providers during the pre-election campaign for the selection of Members of Parliament spanning the period from 24 February to 26 March 2017. On 21 February 2017, the Central Election Commission and the Council for the Electronic Media concluded an agreement on the principles and parameters of the specialised monitoring. The main purpose of the monitoring process was to establish the way in which the electronic media reflects the political subjects...

On 18 May 2017, the European Parliament gave a mandate to the Committee on Culture and Education to begin talks with the European Council on a new directive on audiovisual media services in view of changing market realities. The mandate has a special focus on the protection of children, new rules on advertising, and a 30% quota of European works on video-on-demand (VOD) platforms. The mandate, consistent with the amendments that the Culture Committee voted on 25 April 2017, was approved by 314 votes to 266, with 41 abstentions. When referring to the protection of children, the mandate given by...

On 20 April 2017, President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine signed the "State Support of Cinematography in Ukraine Statute", which is aimed at the state provision and stimulation of the national film production industry. The document presents the national policy of development and enables promotion of Ukrainian cinematography. Previously, in 2015, Ukrainian Parliament imposed a possibility to refuse the issue of new permits for the exhibition and other forms of distribution, including via TV, of films in a number of cases related to the Soviet and Russian works (see IRIS 2015-5/26). The Statute introduces...