Study on co-regulation measures in the media sector
The study (Co-Regulatory Measures in the Media Sector of the EU) [...] focuses on media services (press, broadcasting, online services, film and interactive games) as they are fields where new forms of regulation have been used at an early stage. In these fields, the need for specific legal requirements to serve the public interest will remain (i.e. protecting minors, furthering journalistic quality, fair and non-discriminatory access). However, traditional instruments and concepts run the risk of unnecessarily increasing the regulatory costs for the industry as well as becoming less and less effective under changing social conditions. Therefore, the field of media services can serve as test case even for more general research on new forms of regulation. [...]
The final report will be finished by the beginning of 2006.
