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Task Force for Co-ordination of Media Affairs - Media Pluralism - Study

Independent Study on Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States - Towards a Risk-Based Approach

COUNTRY INVENTORIES OF LEGAL AND POLICY MEASURES PROMOTING/SUPPORTING MEDIA PLURALISM

The three files below contain all the country reports.  For the alternative possibility to download individual reports, please scroll further down this page.

PART I (Introduction; Austria – France)

PART II (Germany – Netherlands)

PART III (Poland – UK)

The country reports are not in any way intended to be an implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor in the Member States. They were drafted during the initial stages of the study, with the intention of obtaining a better view of regulatory measures in the broad sense – including co- and self-regulatory measures – adopted in the Member States to promote or safeguard, directly or indirectly, pluralism in the media. The intention was to obtain a high-level snapshot of possible implementation problems and not to express any value judgements on existing rules. The resulting overview facilitated the development of methods for assessing the effective implementation of regulatory safeguards, which had to be, according to the Terms of Reference for the study, an intrinsic element of the legal indicators.

Please note that the country reports were finalized in the middle of 2008 and do not therefore reflect progress made with the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive or any subsequent initiative by Member States. They are made available not as final deliverables of the study, but as interim deliverables, intended to illuminate part of the route taken by the study team and thereby to contribute towards the full transparency of the MPM project.

The country reports are also available individually.  They should however always be read in light of the information given in the introductory chapter.

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