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Here you will find Arcom's reference texts: European texts, laws, decrees and orders, decisions of the Conseil constitutionnel, decisions and opinions of the Conseil d'Etat.
Discover the institution
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Arcom is the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication. It guarantees freedom of communication and oversees the financing of audiovisual creation and the protection of rights. Its regulation extends to online platforms such as social networks and search engines.
It accompanies the transformations of the audiovisuel and digital landscape and carries out its missions in the interests of all, professionals and the general public alike.
Why Arcom
The major transformations in the audiovisual and digital landscape have necessitated the creation of a new regulator with strengthened and expanded powers to promote the influence, diversity and creativity of the French audiovisual and film industries, and to protect citizens from certain excesses of digital technology.
This regulation is based on a balance between sectors, plurality of supplies and the public interest.
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Our missions
Arcom guarantees freedom of communication and creation, and supports the transformation of the audiovisuel and digital ecosystem. Independent of the government, it acts under the control of the judge and reports to Parliament. It takes its decisions collegially. It is committed to consultation with all stakeholders. Its expertise is based on studies and observations of new uses and public expectations.
In this section, we invite you to learn more about our missions:
- protect creation and its players,
- ensure the economic equilibrium of the audiovisual industry,
- supervise the means used by online platforms to protect audiences while guaranteeing freedom of expression,
- guarantee political plurality on the airwaves,
- protect all audiences on audiovisual and online media, conduct and share research.
Promoting and protecting creativity
Arcom ensures that service editors comply with their obligations to invest in audiovisual and cinematic production.
We protect works and copyrights, encourage the development of legal supplies and study public practices and uses.
Ensuring regulation of technical and economic players
Arcom summons frequencies assigned to the audiovisuel sector, guaranteeing reception quality for the public and optimal conditions of use for professionals.
Beyond the allocation of frequencies, economic regulation is exercised both in terms of access to audiovisual media service markets and in terms of relations between market players.
Guaranteeing plurality and social cohesion
Arcom ensures that audiovisuel service editors respect plurality in the expression of thought and opinion.
Arcom's societal responsibilities involve the entire sector in the pursuit of social cohesion objectives such as the representation of diversity in French society, women's rights, the fight agains discrimination of all kinds, public health, sustainable development, program accessibility for the disabled and the defense of the French language.
Supervise online platforms and social networks
Arcom is involved in issues relating to the activities of online platforms, notably in the fight against the manipulation of information or online hate.
We ensure that platforms implement their reporting and moderation obligations in a transparent and balanced way.
Arcom College
The French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication takes its decisions independently and collegially.
Its college is made up of nine members, appointed by five different appointing authorities, for non-renewable six-year terms.
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Reference texts
Strategic plan 2023-2025
After demonstrating its ability to transform audiovisual and digital communication regulation in 2022, the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication is adopting a strategic project and sharing its 2023-2025 priorities with the public.
The Authority's project is structured around four key objectives:
- to protect audiences ever more effectively
- furthersupport the transformation of the audiovisual and digital industries
- participate in the construction of European regulation
- continue to modernise its operations
Review 2019-2025
Six years of transformation for the audiovisuel and digital communications regulator
Under the presidency of Roch-Olivier Maistre, the French Superior Audiovisual Council (French Superior Audiovisual Council), now the French regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication (Arcom), has transformed itself to embrace all the developments at work in the French audiovisual and digital communication landscape.
With 6 major European directives and regulations and a dozen national laws, the institution's remit has expanded massively. Deployment of digital terrestrial radio and modernised digital terrestrial television, inclusion of video streaming platforms in the scope of regulation, strengthening the fight against piracy, renewed initiatives in favor of on-air parity and diversity, program accessibility and protection of persons under 18, renewed control of respect for plurality, energy sobriety and digital sovereignty: for six years, the regulator has seized its new powers and accompanied media developments with asserted independence.
A regional and international presence
Arcom in the territories
Arcom provides local regulation and is present as close as possible to the local audiovisuel sector, in mainland and overseas France, through 16 delegations spread across the territories.
These delegations are managed and coordinated by a regional secretariat.
Arcom on the international stage
Regulation in the audiovisuel and digital sectors takes place within a European framework, and is based on close cooperation with regulators in other EU member states.
Arcom also maintains regular relations with its counterparts, and every year welcomes numerous foreign delegations to Paris to learn about its role and operations.
Public audiovisuel in France
The public audiovisual communication sector comprises 6 organizations , including 3 national program companies , for which Arcom plays an important role in guaranteeing their independence and ensuring that they carry out their missions properly.
Arcep-Arcom joint digital cluster
The aim of the joint Arcep - Arcom digital unit is to provide in-depth technical and economic analysis of the digital markets that fall within the competence of each of the two authorities, to support them in the implementation of their new regulatory missions in this field.
Official texts
Here you'll find official Arcom texts: decisions, notices, recommendations and deliberations, dispute settlements, reference texts and relations with publishers.