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Articles in this category:  18.12.2007 / AVMS Directive formally adopted by EU Parliament and Council
click to close On December 11th 2007, the EU Parliament and the Council formally adopted the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which was, for more than 3 years, one of the main lobbying issues for magazine publishers in Brussels. While publishers succeeded to exclude the press from the scope of this Directive and managed to get in self-regulation as one possible regime for implementing this Directive at Member State level, FAEP still thinks that the application of broadcasting-based rules to publishers does not seem to have received the attention it deserves. We believe that the application of such rules represents a very radical shift in the degree of regulation of Europe’s press. To do so simply in the name of technological neutrality would not do justice to hundreds of years of press freedom as a central pillar of Europe’s democratic traditions.
The former Television without Frontiers (TVWF) Directive, refers to content regulation (e.g. licensing requirements, media authority responsibilities), rules on advertising, the protection of minors, the access to major events, discrimination, the right of reply and programming quotas for audiovisual media services. This Directive is aimed at television broadcasting and has been revised in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the audiovisual sector. It covers now linear and non-linear audiovisual media services.
Member States will have to implement this Directive over the coming 18 months. click to close |
