Report on the novelties of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and its relevance for national legislative transposition

The Report - published by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - provides an overview of the key legal and policy changes in critical areas of audiovisual media, such as the strengthening of the Country-of-Origin principle; the extension of specific audiovisual rules to video-sharing platforms and social media services; the protection of minors against harmful content online, including strengthening protections on video-on-demand services; the reinforced protection against incitement to violence or hatred and public provocation to commit terrorist offences; the increased obligations to promote European works for on-demand services; the new rules on advertising for linear audiovisual media service providers; the strengthened provisions to protect children from inappropriate audiovisual commercial communications; and the independence of audiovisual regulators. In each area – after an in-depth legal and policy analysis, academic literature review and the study of the most relevant country case studies – the Report put forward policy recommendations on transposition into the Serbian legal system.

The Report is available at https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/a/1/539114.pdf.