AVMS Directive: Emmanuel Maurel Secures Broad Parliamentary Support for the Cultural Exception
Last night, the National Assembly’s European Affairs Committee adopted the two draft resolutions proposed by Emmanuel Maurel on the revision of the “Audiovisual Media Services” (AVMS) Directive and on the definition of a European work. This sends a strong political signal to Brussels just a few months before work begins on revising the main European text governing the audiovisual sector. As the European Commission prepares to revise the AVMSD, scheduled for completion by the end of 2026, Emmanuel Maurel and his co-signatories have just won a first political battle in the National Assembly. On June 10, the Committee on European Affairs adopted the two European resolution proposals submitted by the former MEP, one dedicated to defending the European cultural exception in the… future reform of the directive, the other to…