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In expressing his good wishes for the New Year, the President of the national audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA, Olivier Schrameck summed up the achievements of the past year and presented the CSA’s prospects for the coming year. He called for an “essential readjustment of all the regulatory equilibria”, with regulation extended to include digital audiovisual services, in terms of both scope and method. This would cover relations between the traditional audiovisual media and services platforms, the articulation of public-service and market offers, the balance...

Two associations asked the Conseil d’Etat to annul the following provisions of Decree no. 2017-150 of 8 February 2017 on film classification: “II. - The classification measure … is proportionate to the need to protect children and young people, and in keeping with the sensitivities and stages in personality development specific to each age group and with respect for human dignity. If the work or document in question includes scenes of sexual activity or extreme violence which - particularly by their cumulative effect - may be seriously disturbing for minors, or present violence in a favourable...

On 10 January 2018, the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) Board members passed unanimously Agreement 1/2018 in response to the request made by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations on the draft Royal Decree (906/2017) on commercial communications regarding activities involving gambling and “responsible gambling”. The CAC is in favour of banning gambling and betting advertisements before the “watershed” - that is to say from 6:00am to 10:00pm. The Council also considers that it should be appropriate to eliminate the involvement of famous people in these kinds of commercial communications...

On 17 November 2017, a self-regulatory code on transparency in YouTube advertising was announced by the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media). A large group of YouTube users who create professional online video content have developed, with the help of the Dutch Media Authority, the Social Code: YouTube, in order to be more transparent about advertising in online videos. The Social Code: YouTube was a response to the results of research by the Dutch Media Authority on the frequency with which products and brands are visually shown in videos on YouTube. During the development of this...

On 28 December 2017, the final version of the legislative decree implementing the reform of the film review and governing the protection of minors in the audiovisual sector (Legislative Decree No. 203 of 7 December 2017) was published on the Official Journal. An article on the draft of this decree was included in IRIS 2017-10/24. In particular, the decree on the protection of minors introduces some significant provisions. First of all, distributors and producers are now required to classify cinematographic works with a view to balancing freedom of expression and the protection of minors. Depending...