Data & Privacy
- Data Act
- Data Governance Act
- ePrivacy Directive
- GDPR
AI & Trust
- Artificial Intelligence Act
Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Act
- DORA
- NIS2
Digital Services & Media
- Digital Markets Act
- Digital Services Act
- European Media Freedom Act
European Media Freedom Act
- Recitals
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONSArticles 1 — 2
CHAPTER II
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MEDIA SERVICE PROVIDERS AND RECIPIENTS OF MEDIA SERVICESArticles 3 — 6
CHAPTER III
FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATORY COOPERATION AND A WELL-FUNCTIONING INTERNAL MARKET FOR MEDIA SERVICESArticles 7 — 25
CHAPTER IV
FINAL PROVISIONSArticles 26 — 29
EMFA Article 9. Independence of the Board
- The Board shall act in full independence when performing its tasks or exercising its powers. In particular, the Board shall, in the performance of its tasks or the exercise of its powers, neither seek nor take instructions from any government, institution, person or body. This shall not affect the competences of the Commission or the national regulatory authorities or bodies in accordance with this Regulation.
Relevant Recitals for this Article
In order to ensure that this Regulation and other Union media law is consistently applied, it is necessary to set up the Board as an independent advisory body at Union level gathering national regulatory authorities or bodies and coordinating their actions. In the performance of its tasks and the exercise of its powers, the Board should be fully independent, including from any political or economic influence, and neither seek nor take instructions from any government, institution, whether national, supranational or international, or any public or private person or body. The European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA), established by Directive 2010/13/EU, has been essential in promoting the consistent implementation of that Directive. The Board should therefore build on ERGA and replace it. That requires a targeted amendment of Directive 2010/13/EU to delete Article 30b thereof, which establishes ERGA, and, as a consequence, to replace references to ERGA and its tasks. The amendment of Directive 2010/13/EU by this Regulation is justified as it is limited to provisions which do not need to be transposed by Member States and is addressed to the institutions of the Union.