Electronic communications: The French Supreme Administrative Court rejects the appeals lodged against the measures taken by the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse to redress the collective press distribution system (Marie Claire Album et Revue du Vin de France ; Coopérative des Editeurs Libres et Indépendants)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a first judgment (No. 442464), in two sets of joint applications, companies in the publishing sector asked the Conseil d'État to annul Decision No. 2020-0682 of 19 June 2020 of the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse (ARCEP) relating to Decision No. 2018-02 of the Conseil supérieur des messageries de presse instituting an exceptional contribution from publishers to finance measures to redress the collective press distribution system. One of the applicants also challenged the implicit decision to reject the request to repeal Decision No. 2018-02. The second judgment challenged Decision No.