French Superior Audiovisual Council and Hadopi become Arcom
Arcom is the guarantor of freedom of communication, and ensures that audiovisual and digital media are pluralist and respectful of all.
5 things you need to know about Arcom
1. On January 1, 2022, the French Superior Audiovisual Council (French Superior Audiovisual Council) and the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (Hadopi) became Arcom, the Frenchregulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communication.
2. The launch of Arcom is the result of a legislative procedure that began in 2019 and will end in October 2021, when the law on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age was published in the Journal Officiel.
3. Arcom is an independent public authority (API) with legal personality and is therefore directly liable in the event of a dispute.
4. Arcom operates on a collegiate and independent basis. Arcom's college is made up of 9 members appointed by decree for a non-renewable 6-year term.
5. The creation of Arcom is part of a vast development in audiovisual and digital communication regulation. The Authority will embody the new model of regulation that we are putting in place: regulation that listens more closely to audiences and their concerns, but is also resolutely committed to defending freedom of communication and creation. This major change will be accompanied by significant adaptations to our internal organizations
Remember the chronology of Arcom's birth
- On December 5, 2019, Culture Minister Franck Riester will present the draft legislation for audiovisual reform to the Council of Ministers, making provision for the merger of the French Superior Audiovisual Council and Hadopi.
- On January 13, 2020, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, the French Superior Audiovisual Council and Hadopi signed an agreement setting up a prefiguration mission for the merger of the two authorities.
- On March 30, 2021, the French Superior Audiovisual Council issued its opinion on the draft legislation on protecting public access to cultural works in the digital age.
- On April 8, 2021, a new text of the draft legislation on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age is presented to the Council of Ministers.
- On September 29, 2021, the deputies of the French National Assembly adopted (by 49 votes "for" and 4 "against") the text resulting from the joint committee on the draft legislation on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age.
- On October 21, 2021, some sixty senators petitioned the French Constitutional Council, which upheld the constitutionality of almost the entire law on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age.
- On October 26, 2021, the law on the regulation and protection of access to cultural works in the digital age was published in the Journal Officiel.