SECTORAL POLICIES / Digital

Co-legislators only planning to target certain video sharing platforms in context of audio-visual media standards

Brussels, 15/02/2018 (Agence Europe)

The question of what provisions to apply to video sharing platforms will be at the heart of the forthcoming inter-institutional meeting on audiovisual media services. On Monday 26 February, the co-legislators will discuss what kind of harmonisation to apply to these services. It was not possible to reach a decision on this question on 6 February (see EUROPE 11953).

It should be recalled that the draft text presented in May 2016 seeks to harmonise standards for new media such as YouTube and...