{"id":107492,"date":"2022-05-20T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=107492"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:40:02","slug":"commission-refers-five-member-states-to-the-court-of-justice-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/commission-refers-five-member-states-to-the-court-of-justice-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission refers five Member States to the Court of Justice of the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission decided yesterday to refer Czechia<\/strong>\u00a0[INFR 2020\/0510]<\/a>,\u00a0Ireland<\/strong>\u00a0[INFR 2020\/0531<\/a>],\u00a0Romania<\/strong>\u00a0[INFR 2020\/0555<\/a>],\u00a0Slovakia<\/strong>\u00a0[INFR 2020\/0563<\/a>] and\u00a0Spain<\/strong>\u00a0[INFR 2020\/0521<\/a>], to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the failure to transpose the revised\u00a0Audiovisual Media Services Directive<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cAVMSD\u201d, Directive (EU) 2018\/1808), with a request to impose financial sanctions in accordance with Article 260(3) TFEU.<\/p>\n

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The AVMSD governs EU-wide coordination of national legislation on all audiovisual media. The latest review of AVMSD was carried out in 2018. The revised AVMSD provides EU-wide media content standards for all audiovisual media, both traditional TV broadcasts and on-demand services, in addition to video-sharing platforms. These new EU rules aim to create a safer, fairer and more diverse audiovisual landscape. They reinforce the protection of viewers, with a particular regard to the safety of those most vulnerable, such as minors, extend rules regarding illegal and harmful content to video-sharing platforms, and foster cultural diversity in audiovisual media. Moreover, the Directive introduced additional independence requirements for national media regulators.<\/p>\n

Member States had to transpose this Directive and communicate the national transposition measures to the Commission by 19 September 2020. In the absence of adoption of the relevant national rules, the Commission sent\u00a0Letters of Formal Notice<\/a>\u00a0to 23 Member States in November 2020, followed by nine Reasoned Opinions in\u00a0September<\/a>\u00a0and two in\u00a0November<\/a> 2021. To date, the Member States listed above have failed to fully transpose and communicate the measures implementing the AVMSD. For this reason, the Commission have decided to refer these cases to the Court of Justice of the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Directiva (UE) 2018\/1808 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 14 de noviembre de 2018<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Due to the delayed transposition, citizens and businesses in Czechia, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia and Spain may not be able to rely on all the provisions of the AVMSD, which:<\/p>\n