In this section, you can access a rich collection of documentary resources about media regulation, in English (for the documentation in French or Arabic, please change your navigation language).

Media regulation, a vast term covering systemic and very dynamic area of international human rights law and public policies, encompasses a whole range of rules, practices and tools, which is applicable to media systems and institutions to achieve established policy goals such as pluralism, diversity, competition, and media freedom. With supranational and international agreements as the basis for national approaches to media regulation, available here, this  depository is also inclusive of many areas of audiovisual media regulation, from primary/secondary legislation and broadcasting codes, scope of media regulation, jurisdiction issues, licensing and related systems, media concentration and transparency of media ownership, promotion of domestic and European works and financial support schemes to audiovisual creation, hate speech, fight against disinformation, protection of minors, commercial communications, articulation between self- and coregulation and statutory regulation, media and information literacy (MIL).

In addition to traditional forms of media (self) regulatory mechanisms, this depository provides you with the latest resources pertaining to the ever-growing online media penetration.