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Read moreFreedom of expression, protection of journalists, political advertising, SLAPP
Find out moreA thriving public service media (PSM) upholds the freedom of expression and the right to information, while empowering journalists to work to the highest standards. It enables people to seek and receive information, and promotes the values of democracy, diversity, and social cohesion.
Securing Media Independence
One of the main challenges of public service media is to secure the right level of independence from those holding economic and political power, while ensuring appropriate funding. The organization of PSM and the definition of the public service remit is a question for individual Member States. EU initiatives on media independence and enhancing transparency of media ownership should not impinge on Member States’ competence to act but should complement relevant national rules.
An Independent And Sustainable Governance Framework
PSM’s independence from political and commercial interests hinges on sustainable and predictable funding combined with an appropriate governance framework. Although there is no “one size fits all” approach to how PSM is set up at the national level, the governance framework should follow the principles of independence, accountability, and sustainability.
Protection Of Journalism
Journalists and media professionals are increasingly exposed to hostility, harassment, and violence offline and online. The editorial independence of media organizations must be protected. EU legal initiatives on journalist protection must be consistent with the standards of the Council of Europe. See our work on journalist safety.
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Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), prominence, content integrity, and greater fairness
Find out moreThe Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is the legal framework that establishes principles for a thriving media landscape in Europe.
Ensure Prominence Of General Interest Content Everywhere
The AVMSD allows national regulators to take measures ensuring the prominence of general interest content and services. TV manufacturers, aggregators of audiovisual media services as well as online platforms have a clear incentive to draw audiences to content that furthers their commercial interests. This risks marginalizing content and services of general interest. National policymakers must establish modern rules to make public service media (PSM) content and services prominent and ensuring their accessibility for everyone.
Protection Of Content Integrity
The AVMSD states that programmes and audiovisual media services should not be altered, interrupted, or overlaid by third-parties for commercial purposes, without the media service provider’s explicit consent. We encourage national legislators to adopt comprehensive and effective rules to protect content integrity.
Increase Responsibility Of Online Providers And Strengthen Fairness
The AVMSD introduces new responsibilities for video-sharing platform service providers, for instance in terms of basic advertising rules. We believe that these new rules are an important first step to increase the responsibility of these providers and to strengthen fairness in the European audiovisual media sector if effectively and consistently implemented. We advocate, however, for further regulation of online platforms as they impact the way audiovisual content and services can be found online.
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Brand attribution, access to data, self-preferencing, algorithmic transparency, competition, platform-to-business Regulation
Find out moreTo reach all segments of society, public service media (PSM) increasingly rely on online platforms. This comes with specific challenges.
Content Moderation
Based on their own content policies, online platforms have taken down or restricted the visibility of PSM content. Thus, they deprive users of content that is already regulated and trusted. The EU should establish robust procedural guarantees for PSM that ensure effective remedies against unjustified or flawed content moderation decisions.
Brand Attribution
Online platforms must ensure that the identity of media organizations is clearly visible alongside their content, so that users can make informed decisions about the content they consume.
Algorithmic Transparency
PSM need transparency about the algorithmic decision-making processes and content recommendations of online platforms to understand how their content and services are ranked.
Prominence
To allow citizens easy access to PSM content and services online, EU policymakers should ensure that platforms present content and services of general interest prominently. Learn more about our work on prominence.
Access To Data
Data is a crucial resource in the digital age. PSM needs guaranteed access to meaningful data about their own content and services that appear on platforms.
Self-Preferencing
The EU should fight against all forms of self-preferencing – where platforms treat their own services more favourably than those of their competitors.
With the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act and the Platform to Business Regulation, EU policymakers have taken measures to react to the increasing influence of online platforms. This effort must be continued so that PSM can operate freely and remain relevant to their audiences online.
Want to know where we stand? Check out our latest updates on Online Platforms!
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ePrivacy Regulation (ePR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Governance Act, Data Act
Find out moreThe collection and use of data have become essential to better understand audiences’ expectations and needs, and thus to improve the overall quality and diversity of media offerings. Embracing new data opportunities while protecting individuals’ personal data is one of the most important challenges media companies are facing today.
As part of their public service remit, public service media (PSM) has a particular duty to ensure that data is collected, stored and handled in the most responsible way and in compliance with applicable EU and national laws.
GDPR
PSM supports consistent and effective enforcement of the GDPR to ensure individuals’ privacy and legal certainty for organisations, especially when processing personal data outside the EEA to third countries which do not benefit from an EU adequacy decision. In addition to other key GDPR compliance issues such as data security, controllers and processors’ obligations, data subjects‘ rights, the EBU is also involved in protecting the delicate balance between the right to the protection of personal data and the right to freedom of expression and information, to avoid creating a chilling effect on journalistic activities.
ePrivacy
The ePrivacy Regulation proposal is meant to harmonise notably consent requirements and rules for the tracking of online activity through the use of cookies. The EBU supports the proposed cookies’ consent exceptions as well as a sound and workable audience measurement system.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Public Service Media develop and use AI tools to support journalism, foster diversity, and optimise workflows. By their nature and mission, PSM are committed to applying the highest ethical and technological standards to protect and inform citizens.
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5G networks, wireless production, 5G distribution, vertical, 5G broadcasting, net neutrality, specialized services
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5G
The EBU and public service media (PSM) are pioneering the use of 5G for content production and distribution via technical trials. They have worked on its standardization and initiated the coordination of media and ICT stakeholders with 5G MAG, to foster a media vertical.
The EBU calls for appropriate regulatory guidelines and the right technology choices. The broadcasting industry should be able to own and operate its own 5G networks for specific purposes, e.g. for wireless production infrastructure for live event coverage.
It is also key that large-scale content distribution over 5G is technically and economically sustainable, to keep PSM affordable and accessible. 5G Broadcasting has thus been put forward to ensure PSM content is present on all mobile devices also via broadcasting, to enable free access. Learn more about 5G.
Open Internet
Audiences should have unfettered, non-discriminatory, and transparent access to online content of public interest. Measures strengthening transparency need to be combined with a clear policy regarding internet traffic management that ensures that equivalent types of traffic are treated equally.
Regulators must prevent new forms of traffic discrimination where only content providers with sufficient resources can negotiate ‘preferential’ deals, distorting competition, hampering innovation, and reducing user choice.
Net neutrality must be the norm with specialized services as the exception to avoid that finite network capacity would be dominated by specialized services, impairing access to the Open Internet.
Want to know where we stand? Check out our latest updates on 5G and Open Internet!
PSM Funding, Sustainable funding, competition policy, innovation, Amsterdam protocol
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The media landscape is changing rapidly, shifting away from traditional broadcasting and embracing the ‘age of platforms’. Competition and State-aid rules need to take into account the full impact of global media players on the European media landscape and allow public service media (PSM) to innovate and develop new services and content to fulfil their universality obligations and stay relevant.
PSM Funding Schemes
These funding schemes should allow PSM organizations to fulfill their public interest mission. Governments should provide adequate financial support to PSM so that they benefit all citizens and fulfill their role to promote democracy, social cohesion and cultural values.
Sufficient, Stable And Sustainable Funding
A lack of stable and sustainable funding impacts the quality of programming and news in particular, leaving our Members vulnerable to commercial and political influence, and reducing their capacity to invest in new offerings, technologies and talented people.
Give Public Service Media Freedom To Innovate And Stay Relevant
Competition law and State aid rules must allow PSM to innovate and work together to compete fairly with non-European competitors in the provision of new media and digital services.
Support The European Dual Broadcasting System
This model which has been recognized in many international texts and court judgments ensures that public and private media compete effectively to provide high-quality media content.
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Intellectual property (IP), Contractual freedom and territoriality, International and EU regulatory framework
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Public service media (PSM) invests €18 billion a year in original European content. These programmes exist thanks to a variety of contributors entitled to remuneration for the use and licensing of their work.
High-Quality Content
Since PSM are both rightsholders and rights users, it is crucial that the EU copyright framework enables them to fulfil their national obligation: bring high-quality content and service to their citizens. The EBU provides legal advice and support to PSM in the implementation of EU law and acts as the contact point with the EU.
Contractual Flexibility
The EBU advocates for fostering an environment facilitating broad distribution and access to content, while protecting artistic creators. Maintaining contractual flexibility allows rightsholders and rights users to negotiate how, when, and where licensed content is offered, to best match consumer preferences. This flexibility depends on the possibility to exploit audiovisual works on a territorial and exclusive basis. Territoriality emphasises the funding of European works. Removing it would limit audience choice and favour the largest players.
WIPO
The current level of protection is insufficient to effectively combat today’s piracy of audiovisual content. PSM actively supports WIPO’s work on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty and strongly encourages WIPO Member States to adopt a robust international instrument in the near future.
Want to know where we stand? Check out our latest updates on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights!
Frequencies, Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Lower UHF band, 470-694 MHz, sub-700MHz band, UHF, WRC, RSPG, Digital Dividend, PMSE
Find out moreSpectrum is the range of frequencies used to transmit data wirelessly. It is divided into different bands. The Lower UHF band (470 to 694 MHz) is the band used by public service media (PSM) to deliver free-to-air Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) to audiences. It has been shared with wireless production systems (PMSE) for decades.
A Scarce Resource
Spectrum has become a scarcer resource due to the increasing development of wireless technologies. In the recent past, broadcasters have invested to free up a significant portion of the spectrum they used, while also increasing choice and quality for TV viewers. This portion of spectrum has now been allocated to mobile-broadband services (Digital Dividends). Further diversion of spectrum resources away from broadcasting will undermine universal access to PSM, as, in practice, it would mean DTT has to stop. On the production side, PMSE would have to find another band for the wireless microphones, talk-back and in-ear systems used in political, religious, sport, cultural and local events every day.
Protect Broadcasting
The EBU relentlessly aims to ensure there is sufficient spectrum for DTT and to sustain a vibrant European audiovisual landscape. In the context of the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23), and especially regarding its Agenda Item 1.5, the EBU urges negotiators to protect the current use of spectrum by DTT and PMSE in the Lower UHF band. This reflects the very well-balanced compromises found at EU level with the UHF Decision.
Want to know where we stand? Check out our latest updates on Spectrum!
Our Legal and Policy team defines our policy positions together with our Members, and in consultation with the Legal and Policy Assembly, Legal and Policy Committee and our expert groups. Also find our archive of Legal and Policy Assembly documents, dating back to 1999.
If adopted, the European Commission’s proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) would require companies to establish due diligence procedures to address adverse impacts of their actions on human rights and the environment, including along their value chains worldwide. The aim is to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour and to introduce sustainability considerations in companies’ operations and corporate governance.
The CSDDD is part of the European Green Deal – a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission with the overarching aim of making the European Union's climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, and climate-neutral by 2050. Together with existing regulations and other regulatory initiatives such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) or the EU Taxonomy Regulation, the CSDDD represents a further step towards sustainable business under uniform European conditions.
The CSDDD imposes different obligations on different types of companies (see overview table below). All companies within its scope will have to implement due diligence measures to identify, end, prevent, mitigate and account for negative human rights and environmental impacts of their actions. For instance, due diligence would imply developing and implementing “prevention action plans”, obtaining contractual assurances from direct business partners, and subsequently verifying compliance. Companies covered by the directive would need to ensure due diligence not just regarding their own operations, but also regarding the activities of all entities in their value chains with which they have direct and indirect business relationships.
Companies with a turnover of more than 150 million Euro (group 1 & 3 below) will also have to develop a plan to ensure that their business strategy is compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5 °C in line with the Paris Agreement. Companies that identify climate change as “a principal risk for, or a principal impact of,” their operations would have to include emissions reduction objectives in their business plans.
Notably, the Commission’s proposal would achieve senior-level responsibility for sustainability. Directors of EU companies would be responsible for setting up and overseeing the implementation of due diligence, as well as integrating due diligence into the corporate strategy. The CSDDD adds consideration of human rights, climate change and environmental consequences to the existing fiduciary duty of directors to act in the best interests of the company.
The Commission may issue guidelines for specific sectors or specific adverse impacts in consultation with Member States and stakeholders, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Environment Agency, and where appropriate with international bodies having expertise in due diligence.
For due diligence, the CSDDD aligns with the main international human rights and environmental law standards. However, it only covers those rights and prohibitions specifically listed in the Annex to the proposal as well as any human rights risks that are foreseeable. The list includes a range of labour rights, the prohibition of interference with freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and the right to freedom of association, assembly, the rights to organise and collective bargaining. Although freedom of expression is not explicitly listed, it would presumably still fall within the scope of due diligence of any media organization given its operational context.
The list also includes certain violations of international environmental law concerning, for instance, the handling, collection, storage and disposal of waste, or the use of biological resources that could have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Companies with more than 500 employees and at least EUR 150m turnover will also have to ensure that their business model and strategy are compatible with the transition to a sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5 °C in line with the Paris Agreement. Companies that have or should have identified climate as a principal risk for or a principal impact of their operations, should include emissions reduction objectives in their plan.
Note that the CSDDD does not cover the entire range of sustainability or ESG (Environmental Social Governance) standards. The latter include, for instance, considerations of diversity and inclusion or anti-corruption, but would not be covered by the CSDDD.
The CSDDD will be enforced at Member State-level. The Commission proposes three enforcement mechanisms: administrative supervision and sanctions, civil liability, and financial incentives.
Administrative supervision and sanctions: Member States would designate an authority to supervise and impose administrative sanctions, including fines and compliance orders. At the European level, the Commission will set up a European Network of Supervisory Authorities that will bring together representatives of the national authorities to ensure a coordinated approach. Natural and legal persons would be entitled to submit “substantiated concerns” to any supervisory authority alleging that a company is failing to comply.
Civil liability: Member States will ensure that victims have access to compensation for damages resulting from the companies’ failure to comply with their due diligence obligations.
Financial incentives: Implementation of the emission reduction plans will be embedded in the financial incentives of directors of EU companies by linking their variable remuneration to their contribution to fulfilling these plans.
Part of the CSDDD would be enforced through existing Member States' laws. For instance, the CSDDD does not foresee an additional enforcement regime in case directors do not comply with their obligations under this directive. However, Member States would have to amend their laws and regulations on directors' duties, adding consideration of human rights, climate change and environmental consequences to their existing fiduciary duties. This will have various implications under domestic company law. For instance, shareholders may be able to sue directors who violate this fiduciary duty. The CSDDD may even add to the risk of sustainability-related strategic litigation, which has become a growing concern for companies.
The CSDDD was proposed by the Commission in February 2022. In December 2022, the European Council finalised its general approach. It proposes to narrow the scope to cover only EU companies with more than 1,000 employees and EUR 300m net worldwide turnover, and non-EU companies with EUR 300m net turnover generated in the EU. By contrast, members of the European Parliament (MEPs), where the proposal is still awaiting Parliament’s position, seem inclined to expand, rather than narrow, the scope of the CSDDD to a wider range of companies.
The Council also rejected the Commission's proposal that due diligence should fall under the directors' fiduciary duty of care. Instead, due diligence processes should be incorporated into risk management systems and company policies. It also deleted the original proposal to base variable remuneration on directors' contributions to sustainability. By contrast, MEPs might be inclined to broaden the scope of environmental issues to include more obligations related to nature and biodiversity as well as climate-related objectives.
The CSDDD is expected to enter trilogue negotiations later in 2023 with the aim of adopting the directive by 2024. Its rules will not become applicable before 2025 at the earliest.
Many PSM will not be covered by the CSDDD because they are public entities. While not required to implement due diligence procedures, Members could still be affected in virtue of their direct or indirect business relationship with the relevant companies. Concretely, in-scope companies that deal with PSM might ask for contractual assurances and subsequently verify compliance.
Members might also choose to establish due diligence procedures on a voluntary basis. Sustainability due diligence could be set to become a common business practice in the media sector. Social and environmental considerations are becoming an essential part of consumer decisions. Feeling overwhelmed or powerless themselves, many people look to companies and public entities to take the lead on climate change. [1] PSM have an opportunity to strengthen their legitimacy and the trust of their audiences by leading on these issues. On the other hand, violations of human rights or environmental law resulting from failures of due diligence risk significantly harming PSM’s reputation, its relationship with audiences and other stakeholders, and its authority to hold others accountable.
Sophia Wistehube
Legal Counsel
Legal & Policy
wistehube@ebu.ch
[1] EBU Media Intelligence Service, Hot Media Trends 2023 (January 2023, Member exclusive)
In today's online world, big tech platforms unilaterally determine who sees what and when –...
In today's online world, big tech platforms unilaterally determine who sees what and when – based on their own recommender algorithims and community standards. Device manufacturers also act as powerful gatekeepers between media providers and their audiences. Whether on Smart TVs or remote controls, commercial objectives determine which media services and content is displayed or easily found.
Public service media are an important source of varied quality content, reliable information, and diverse opinions. But they, like many other European broadcasters, lack the bargaining power to ensure that their services and content are easy to find and prominently placed when offered on online platforms or connected devices.
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The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large and/or listed companies to publish regular reports on the social and environmental risks they face, and on how their activities impact the rights of people and the environment. The aim is to enable investors, civil society organisations, consumers and other stakeholders to evaluate how sustainable these companies are.
The CSRD is part of the European Green Deal – a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission. The overarching aim is to make the European Union fit to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, and climate-neutral by 2050.
The CSRD amends the Non-financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), expanding the scope of these reporting requirements to a broader set of large companies, as well as listed SMEs. The NFRD applies only to so-called “public-interest entities”, such as listed companies, banks, or insurance companies, [1] with more than 500 employees. As a result, the companies needing to report on non-financial issues goes from approximately 11 700 under the NFRD to approximately 50 000 companies under the CSRD.
The CSRD also modernizes and strengthens the rules about the social and environmental information that companies must report on by specifying that the information must be relevant, comparable, reliable, and accessible. Companies will have to report according to binding standards. By contrast, under the NFRD, large companies were free to choose the standard for publishing sustainability information. Under the NFRD auditing is voluntary. The CSRD makes it mandatory.
Whether a public service media (PSM) organisation will fall within the scope of the CSRD depends on its legal form. PSM organisations established under public law will not be covered. But many PSM that are established under private law will be. For instance, a PSM that is incorporated as a joint stock company will be covered even if it is entirely owned by the State.
Precisely which kind of private legal entities will be required to report varies across Member States. A list of the relevant types of companies can be found in Annex I and Annex II of the EU Accounting Directive 2013/34/EU. Of those companies, the CSRD only requires companies that fulfill any of the following criteria to report on sustainability:
Many PSM will not be covered by the CSRD because they are public entities. Still, they may choose to use the same reporting standards on a voluntary basis. Requests for sustainability information from companies you are dealing with (e.g., banks, or companies you supply) are likely to increase once the CSRD becomes applicable to them. As a result, collecting and disclosing sustainability information will likely become a common business practice in the media sector. Using CSRD standards could make it easier to report the necessary information to banks, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
Sustainability is also becoming an essential part of consumer decisions, with increasing expectation on organizations to be sustainable. [2] Working on sustainability is a good way to create social impact and a positive effect on a PSM’s brand value. [3] It also has a positive impact on reach, both in terms of general audience and young audiences, and leads to higher audience satisfaction. [4] At the same time, many Europeans are concerned about false sustainability claims and do not trust mere brand pledges. [5] PSM are facing increasing public pressure to justify their legitimacy by providing evidence of their social impact. [6] Therefore, sustainability reporting according to uniform standards can increase transparency and comparability, provide a basis for better, dialogue and communication with audiences and other stakeholders, improve your reputation and attract young talent.
The European Commission adopted the CSRD in late 2022. The Directive entered into force in January 2023. The rules will start applying between 2024 and 2028:
The rules introduced by the NFRD remain in force until companies must apply the new rules of the CSRD.
Companies must disclose the impact of sustainability topics on the company’s value (financial materiality), impact on the economy, the environment, and people (impact materiality), and how they are interconnected. Companies must provide qualitative and quantitative information on their:
Relevant information includes intangibles, including intellectual, human, as well as social and relationship capital. Information about the company’s value chain will also be required where appropriate. The information should be forward-looking and retrospective, qualitative and quantitative, and cover short, medium and long-term horizons.
Companies subject to the CSRD will have to report according to European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The draft standards are developed by the EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group), a private association established in 2001 with under the auspices of the European Commission. Its Member organisations are European stakeholders, national organisations and civil society organisations. EFRAG provides technical advice to the European Commission in the form of fully prepared draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards and/or draft amendments to these Standards.
The Commission should adopt the first set of cross-cutting standards and standards for all sustainability topics (i.e., environment, social and human rights, and governance) by mid-2023, based on the draft standards published in November 2022. Sector-specific standards are expected to follow by 30 June 2024. [7] With the carbon footprint of the video industry having surpassed that of the aviation industry, [8] the Commission may adopt specific standards for the (audiovisual) media sector.
Sustainability information must be included in the management report and digitalized as companies will be required to prepare their financial statements and their management report in a single electronic reporting XHTML format. [9]
The CSRD also requires companies to audit the sustainability information they disclose. The information will be subject to mandatory external “limited” assurance, but is expected to shift towards a more rigorous “reasonable” assurance requirement at a later stage.
Sophia Wistehube
Legal Counsel
Legal & Policy
wistehube@ebu.ch
[1] Member States may designate additional types of public-interest entities.
[2] EBU Media Intelligence Service, (January 2023, Member exclusive).
[3] EBU Media Intelligence Service, Environmental Sustainability at Public Service Media, (forthcoming, Member exclusive).
[6] EBU Media Intelligence Service, Unpacking Social Impact, (February 2023, Member exclusive).
[7] Guidance may come from the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan (MAAP) Acton 6 which aims to help the audiovisual media industry become climate neutral by 2050 by facilitating the exchange of best practices. A group of organisations have agreed to work together towards the development of a unified measurement methodology of CO2 emissions, that will contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions.
[8] Futuresource Consulting, Sustainability in Video Entertainment: 2022 Industry Update (November 2022).
[9] Article 3 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/815.
This public version of our Digital Services Act (DSA) Handbook will help explain the new rules that...
This public version of our Digital Services Act (DSA) Handbook will help explain the new rules that the DSA has put in place and how public service media can work with third-party online platforms in the broadest sense, whether on the business, technical or legal side, and should provide answers to the most pressing questions they may have concerning the DSA.
Specifically, this publication offers a breakdown of all the DSA provisions that may affect public service media activities, and considers what could be done to further rebalance the relationship with third-party online platforms.
This Members only guide ( This Members only guide (see the public version here) will help public service media employees that work with third-party online platforms in the broadest sense, whether on the business, technical or legal side, and should provide answers to the most pressing questions they may have concerning the DSA. Specifically, this publication offers public service media a breakdown of all the DSA provisions that may affect their activities, describes what these provisions mean for PSM specifically and addresses what could be done to further rebalance the relationship between PSM and third-party online platforms. Non-Members are invited to contact the EBU Legal Secretariat for information on how to obtain a copy.
The Digital Markets Act Handbook is intended for EBU Members to clarify to public service media the...
The Digital Markets Act Handbook is intended for EBU Members to clarify to public service media the “dos and don’ts” for digital gatekeepers included in this legislation.
The Handbook focuses on the most relevant provisions and implementation hurdles for PSM that were identified by the EBU during the legislative process.
Non-Members are invited to contact the EBU Legal Secretariat for information on how to obtain a copy.
This Legal Focus publication deals with the critical question of public service media's role and...
This Legal Focus publication deals with the critical question of public service media's role and the scope of its activities in the global digital media markets, identifying the following non-binding guidance Principles:
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The EBU has published Public Funding Principles for Public Service Media (PSM). Coming at a critical...
The EBU has published Public Funding Principles for Public Service Media (PSM). Coming at a critical time when PSM funding is under pressure in many different countries, these principles serve as a non-binding source of guidance and reference for PSM in the assessment and implementation of new and existing funding models. There are many different approaches to PSM funding used in Europe, taking into account the different legal, constitutional, economic and cultural structures of each country. However, it is possible to identify certain broader principles that should be relevant in any funding debate.
The EBU's Legal Focus on Public Funding Principles for PSM builds on the EBU Core Values of Public Service Media, declared by the General Assembly in 2012, in Strasbourg.
With its new Copyright Handbook, the EBU provides its Members with a reference tool addressing the...
With its new Copyright Handbook, the EBU provides its Members with a reference tool addressing the main copyright issues faced by broadcasters. This Handbook is complementary to the EBU Copyright Guide, providing an overview of all relevant topics and illustrative case law as well as legal references to enhance the understanding of copyright matters in broadcasting.
Non-Members are invited to contact the EBU Legal Secretariat for information on how to obtain a copy.
The EBU Legal Department has published a practical toolkit for editors and programme makers working...
The EBU Legal Department has published a practical toolkit for editors and programme makers working for public service broadcasters, with the aim of increasing awareness of all the rights and obligations under copyright law to be taken into account when creating, selecting and using protected material.
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