El Proyecto de Reglamento Europeo de Libertad de los Medios de Comunicación y su repercusión en la legislación audiovisual española

Abstract

The European Commission presented, on September 16, 2022, a Regulation for media services in the internal market, known as the European Freedom of the Media Act and a Recommendation, which complements it in what would affect what we know as internal plurality in the media and their editorial independence, as a new set of directly applicable European rules to protect the pluralism and independence of the media in the EU. The proposed Regulation provides, among other things, safeguards against political interference in editorial decisions and against surveillance by third parties. The impact that this proposal will have on the internal legislation of each of the member states of the European Union is unquestionable, since, as the title of the regulation states, it would amend Directive 13/2010 (EU) and therefore it would directly affect national regulations, as is the case of the Spanish Law 13/2022, General Audiovisual Communication, which incorporated the Directive on "Audiovisual Content without borders" into the Spanish domestic legal system.