The report focuses on the main changes brought by the revised Directive and looks at a wide range of important areas of the AVSMD, in particular: the scope of application, the country-of-origin principle and the cooperation between national regulators and the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA), the protection of minors, the accessibility of audiovisual media services to persons with visual or hearing disabilities, the rules on prominence of audiovisual media services of general interest, the rules on signal integrity, the audiovisual commercial communications, the co-/self-regulatory initiatives, the rules on video-sharing platforms and the independence of media regulators.
The report confirms that the AVMSD remains an essential instrument to govern the Union-wide coordination of national legislation for all audiovisual media. Its revision has proved useful for addressing developments in the audiovisual market, such as the growing importance of digital services.