Editorial Responsibility in the Directive on Audiovisual Media Services

The legal concept of “editorial responsibility” takes centre stage in the new European Directive on Audiovisual Media Services. Its influence begins with the area of the Directive’s application. In a contribution for the European Audiovisual Observatory, the various functional levels of this concept are being elucidated as well as criteria for determining when editorial responsibility, in the sense of the Directive, can be established for a media service.