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On 7 September 2017, the National Audiovisual Regulatory Authority (Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel - “the CSA”) published its position on the reform of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (“the AVMSD”). Following the adoption of a proposal to amend the Directive on 25 May 2016, the European Parliament and the EU Council issued a report and its general approach in April and May 2017, respectively, opening the way for a series of informal “trilogues” that should result in a revised directive being adopted in the coming months. The CSA called for ambitious compromises and a rapid conclusion...

With the development of transmission techniques allowing ever faster access to the Internet, the telecoms world has seen unprecedented upheaval in recent years. In 2014, the Federal Council published a report on this trend, presenting the current state of the Swiss telecoms market. The report covered developments in international roaming, the protection of consumers and young people, and the neutrality of the Internet. The Federal Council noted that many issues were not adequately provided for in the current legislation, and that it therefore needed to be revised. The Federal Council then drew...

It is sometimes forgotten than Belgium’s complex institutional organisational structure in respect of audiovisual matters is not made up only of the country’s three linguistic communities (the French-, Flemish- and German-speaking sections of the population). A few areas of responsibility have been retained by the federal (that is to say, national) authorities; these include audiovisual matters in the bilingual region of Brussels-Capital - an area that is home to nearly 1.2 million people; Brussel’s French- and Flemish-speaking communities do have some responsibilities, but only with regard to...

On 25 November 2016 the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly enacted a new version of the 2011 Model Statute on the Basics of Internet Regulation (Модельный закон «Об основах регулирования Интернета» - see IRIS 2011-8/10). It consists of three chapters containing a total of fifteen articles. The Act sets out the principles governing (and determines the main direction of) the regulation of relations concerning the use of the Internet, sets out the procedures for State support of its development, and outlines the rules for determining the place and time of legally...

On 15 June 2017, the European Parliament adopted a Resolution on online platforms and the Digital Single Market. This follows the European Commission’s Communication on a Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe in 2015, which included creating a fit for purpose regulatory environment for platforms and intermediaries (see IRIS 2015-6/3). The Resolution begins by welcoming the Commission’s Communication on Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market (see IRIS 2015-10/4 and IRIS 2017-7/7), and by acknowledging that online platforms benefit today’s digital economy and society by increasing the...