New specialists join Arcom's youngsters' expert committee

Since 2005, the regulator has relied on its Committee of Experts on Young Audiences to carry out its mission of protecting youngsters in audiovisual and digital media.

Arcom's Committee of Experts on Young Audiences, made up of professionals in direct contact with the world of children and teenagers 1, provides a forum for dialogue and experience-sharing that is essential to the regulator's action.

Through its notices and recommendations, it contributes to the AMF's efforts to protect young viewers (youth labelling and program classification, protection of children under the age of three from the effects of television, audiovisual retransmission of mixed martial arts fights, etc.). It also feeds into Arcom's forward-looking vision of challenges relating to the protection of persons under 18, particularly those associated with new uses and digital technology.

Arcom renews some of its committee members every two years, in order to ensure that it remains dynamic. As such, five new experts joined the committee on January 1, 2024, for a renewable two-year term. Today, the Authority convened a meeting of the newly-formed committee to discuss current challenges in protecting youngsters and launch a new cycle of reflection.

Arcom congratulates the renewed members and welcomes the new ones. We look forward to continuing our work alongside men and women who are deeply committed to the cause of young people.

[1] Pediatricians, psychologists, representatives of institutions and associations, professionals in the field of youth work and creation, researchers, etc.

Newly appointed members:

• Justine ATLAN, Managing Director of the e-Enfance association
• Agnès BACRIE, elementary school principal
• François-Marie CARON, pediatrician, Association Française de Pédiatrie Ambulatoire, Expert for Mpédia.fr
• Rose-Marie FARINELLA, media and information educator, former journalist and school teacher
• Paul JACQUIN, pediatrician (adolescent medicine)

Members whose mandates have been renewed:

• Olivier ANDRIEU-GÉRARD, coordinator of the "digital media-uses" unit at the Union nationale des associations familiales (UNAF)
• Grégoire BORST, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Cognitive Neuroscience (Université Paris Cité), Director of the Child Development and Education Psychology Laboratory (LaPsyDÉ - CNRS).
• Béatrice COPPER-ROYER, child and adolescent psychologist
• Eric DELEMAR, Children's Ombudsman for the French Rights Defender
• Sabine DUFLO, psychologist and family therapist in child psychiatry (Centre médico-psychologique pour enfants et adolescents, attached to EPSM G. Daumezon)
• Christel GONNARD, screenwriter and writing director
• Azmina GOULAMALY, director of the Pipangaï animation studio
• Emmanuel MARTIN, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Ubisoft
• Amélia MATAR, Founder of Colori
• Ovidie, director, journalist and author
• Georges PICHEROT, pediatrician, former head of the pediatrics department at Nantes University Hospital
• Thomas ROHMER, President of the Observatoire de la parentalité et de l'éducation numérique (OPEN) (Observatory on parenting and digital literacy)
• Nicolas VIGNOLLES, General Delegate, Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs (SELL)