Código CoAN 2010el primer Código de corregulación audiovisual de España

Resumo

On 17 November 2009 the first Co-regulation Code for the Audiovisual S ector was established in Spain: “2010 Co-regulation Code for the Quality of Audiovisual Contents in Navarra”. This Code was a pioneer in the field, taking into account the contents of the recent General Audiovisual Act (Ley General Audiovisual), and is an example of the kind of work that is to be carried out in the future by the State Council for the Media (Consejo Estatal de Medios Audiovisuales, CEMA) or the corresponding regulatory body. This initiative shows the need to apply Co-regulatory Codes to national forms of regulation in the audiovisual sector, as the European institutions urge in their latest Directive in 2010. Three main aspects - analysis of the failure of traditional means of regulation and the inefficiency of self-regulation, the need to distinguish conceptually between co-regulation as a separate instrument from self-regulation and regulation, and awareness of the added value of co-regulation in its application to concrete areas - demonstrate the need for and advantages of applying co-regulation in the context of aims such as protecting minors, achieving pluralism, and fomenting media literacy.