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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...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted on 21 April 2017 amendments to the Federal Statute on Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information (see IRIS 2014-3/40) that introduce a prohibition of foreign and restrictive regulation of national online cinemas. The act provides the notion of "the owner of an audiovisual service" and enumerates its responsibilities. Such an “owner” is defined as “the owner of a website and/or the website page on the Internet, and/or an information system, and/or a computer programme that are used to form and/or organize the distribution...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) imposed fines worth 1,167,500 lei (~EUR 259,400) in 2016 for breaches of the audiovisual rules (see inter alia IRIS 2008-5/27, IRIS 2009-1/29, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2011-1/44, IRIS 2011-6/31, IRIS 2012-1/39, IRIS 2012-4/36). According to the CNA 2016 Annual Report, unanimously adopted on 4 April 2017, the Council imposed 176 sanctions last year, of which 42 fines, 133 public warnings, and a decision to broadcast the text of the sanction for 10 minutes. Most sanctions were imposed for breaches of the legal framework with...