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This report highlights recent developments since October 2024: Arcom started examining the implementation of age verification systems; the Parliament tabled two proposals to ban advertising for alcohol on online platforms and to fight disinformation on climate change; the scope of the food charter will be extended to social media; the French film institute sets priorities to review the Audiovisual Media Services Directive; Canal Plus will stop broadcasting pay channels on digital terrestrial networks; and more.
During a lengthy and heated debate in the plenary of the EU Parliament on the alleged use of TikTok by foreign actors to interfere in the first round of Romanian elections, EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen announced the opening of formal proceedings against TikTok under the Digital Services Act focusing on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes and civil discourse.
The Commission sent a letter of formal notice to Bulgaria and a reasoned opinion to Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland for failing to have designated or empowered a Digital Service Coordinator.
Members of the EP IMCO Committee asked the Commission to step-up and prioritise enforcement actions to address gender-based violence on online platforms. The Commission asked MEPs to be patient and to make sure their member states have properly enforced, empowered and financed their Digital Service Coordinator.
This report gathers policy and regulatory developments at EU level covered by Cullen International’s Digital Economy and Media services during last week. It also lists events taking place this week. This is the last EU Digital & Media Weekly Report before 2025, when discussions in Brussels around the different policy and regulatory initiatives will resume after the end-of-year holiday period.
This report gathers policy and regulatory developments at EU level covered by Cullen International’s Digital Economy and Media services during the last week. It also lists events taking place this week.
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