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On 4 June 2024, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the Anteproyecto de la Ley Orgánica de Protección de los Menores en los Entornos Digitales (draft Organic Law on the Protection of Minors in Digital Environments). According to Félix Bolaños, Minister for the Presidency, Parliamentary Relations and Democratic Memory, the law aims to guarantee the rights of minors, in particular the fundamental rights enshrined in Articles 18 and 20 of the Spanish Constitution, i.e. the right to honour, personal and family privacy and one’s own image. The law begins...

First, the Italian Council of State (through Judgment No. 4277 of 13 May 2024, regarding the Google Search service) and then the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) for Lazio (through Order No. 1940 of 16 May 2024, regarding the YouTube video-sharing platform service, and Order No. 2272 of 31 May 2024, regarding the X service) confirmed the sanctioning measures adopted by the Italian Communications Authority (AGCOM) against Google Ireland Limited and Twitter International Unlimited Company for violating the ban on advertising gambling with cash winnings introduced by Article 9 of Decree Law No....

Law No. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 aiming “to secure and regulate the digital space” was published in the French Official Gazette after being examined by the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Council). The first section of the law aims to prevent minors accessing pornographic websites. To this end, it gives the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the task of drawing up minimum technical standards that must be met by age verification systems set up by publishers and online video-sharing...

On 13 May 2024, the European Commission announced that DG CNECT, the Directorate-General responsible for the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), has signed an administrative arrangement with Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media regulator. Similar agreements had already been signed between the Commission and the French and Irish media regulators (respectively the Autorité de regulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique and Coimisiún na Meán). The arrangement will support both actors’ supervisory work with regard to online platforms;...

On 14 May 2024, amendments to the Gambling Act were published in issue 42 of the State Gazette. The amendments introduced a prohibition in paragraph 1 of Article 10 against gambiling advertising in radio and television programmes, except for the broadcast of the draws of the state-owned "Bulgarian Sports Totalisator" and the announcement of these draws (point 1), and in printed works and electronic media, including websites (point 3). The motives for this legislative decision are to prevent widespread solicitation of gambling and to protect the interests of minors. The following additional...