Visibility of audiovisual services on connected screens: Arcom adopts two resolutions to implement the Services of General Interest (SIG) regime
The vast majority of today's viewers watch audio and video content on connected TV sets and screens. The interfaces of these screens are managed by a variety of players, including Internet service providers and their "boxes", manufacturers of connected TV sets, and application stores, which aggregate a multitude of supplies. As a result, viewers are finding it increasingly difficult to access familiar audiovisual services and programs quickly and easily. Audiovisual groups, for their part, need to be able to reach their audiences directly in order to finance their investment in content.
In order to meet the challenges of plurality and cultural diversity raised by this situation, Arcom today adopted and made public two deliberations on the appropriate visibility of services of general interest (SGI), taken in application of the amended Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive, Article 20-7 of the law of September 30, 1986 and its implementing decree of December 7, 2022, as well as an accompanying note.
These texts take into account the observations and detailed opinion of the European Commission of May 16 and 17, 2024, to which the French authorities replied on September 23, 2024.
They are intended to apply to all interfaces crossing the thresholds set by the Decree of December 7, 2022 that offer their users access to audiovisual supplies, including those whose place of business is located in a country other than France. An amended list of subject-to-the-law user interfaces was also adopted today to take account of the Commission's comments.
Arcom will shortly be contacting all the publishers concerned to ask them to declare their GISs that meet the criteria set out in the deliberation. After examination, the list of services qualified as being of general interest will be published on the Autorité's website and notified to service editors and interface operators.
Arcom intends to support all interface operators in implementing the appropriate visibility measures, and will ensure that the schemes put in place are compliant.
Through this manager, Arcom intends to guarantee viewers easier access to services and programs recognized as GIS, particularly on connected TV sets, and thus continue to defend the plurality of opinions and cultural diversity in order to preserve the full scope of the democratic and societal values recognized by the directive.
Note presenting a scheme to ensure appropriate visibility of services of general interest
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