Competition policy: The French Government amends the provisions of the preliminary draft law on audiovisual anticipating the transposition of measures of the ECN + Directive following an opinion of the French Administrative Supreme Court (Audiovisual communication and cultural sovereignty in the digital age)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In September 2018, the National Assembly had adopted an amendment introduced by the Government that inserted an article 71 bis in the draft law on the growth and transformation of enterprises ("PACTE law"). Brief history of this bill The purpose of Article 71a of the PACTE bill was to empower the government to transpose by ordinance the so-called ECN + Directive, which aims to provide the competition authorities of the Member States with the means to implement the competition rules more effectively and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market. Article 71 bis of the PACTE bill also allowed the Government to take by ordinance various measures