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On 21 July, AGCOM launched with resolution no. 178/23/CNS a public consultation on the measures to be adopted to ensure influencers' compliance with the Consolidated Law on audiovisual media services. AGCOM's goal of extending the scope of the legal and regulatory framework to these subjects stems from the observation that the activities carried out by influencers are comparable to the provision of audiovisual media services. The activities involved are those carried out by subjects denominated in current language with the term of "influencer", but also "vlogger",...

The Digital Services Act Implementation Bill was published on 14 July 2023. It provides for the national implementation in the Netherlands of the EU’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which entered into force in late 2022 (see, for example, IRIS 2023-3:1/18 and IRIS 2023-5:1/2). Crucially, the Bill designates the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets – ACM) as the national Digital Services Coordinator in the Netherlands under the DSA. In addition, the bill designates the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority –...

Under the new law no. 2023-566 of 7 July 2023 “establishing digital majority and combating online hate”, children under 15 will need their parents’ consent to join a social network. The law also enshrines in French legislation (Article 1 IV of the Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy – LCEN) of 21 June 2004) the definition of a social networking service as “a platform that enables end users to connect and communicate with each other, share content and discover other users and content across...

Съветът за електронни медии (the Council for Electronic Media – CEM) held a discussion focused on the topic of “Commercial Communications in the Media” on 6 July 2023. Representatives of Комисията за защита на потребителите (the Commission for Consumer Protection), Асоциацията на българските радио- и телевизионни оператори (the Association of Bulgarian Radio and Television Broadcasters), Националния съвет за саморегулация (the National Council for Self-Regulation), the general directors of Българската национална телевизия (Bulgarian National Television) andБългарското национално...

On 3 March 2022, as part of his remit under the Law of 30 July 2020 and the Decree of 7 October 2021 aimed at preventing minors from accessing pornographic websites, the president of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) ordered several Internet access providers to appear before the president of the Paris judicial court. He asked the court, ruling on the merits under the accelerated procedure, to order the ISPs to block the websites Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xnxx and Xvidéo so they could...