Les sanctions de la liberté de communication audiovisuelle. Contribution à l'étude de la répression administrative
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Abstract EN:
By subordinating the audiovisual communication activity to the obtaining from an "independent authority, the csa (conseil superieur de l'audiovisuel) prior administrative permissions, the legislator is in contradiction with the system of freedom he claims to protect : "the audiovisual communication is free". Actually as a counterpart of the granting od authorisations, the private services of audiovisual communication are submitted to some obligations. Abiding by them is ensured by an elaborate system of administrative sanctions that tend to replace repressions. Thus, having predominently recourse to administrative repression is veryhelpful for regulating audiovisual communication but detrimental to freedom. This repression is enforced by an administrative authority and thus the persons sanctioned do not enjoy the same legal guarantees as those available in the case of penal repression.
Abstract FR:
En subordonnant l'activite de communication audiovisuelle a la delivrance par une "autorite independante" (csa) d'autorisations administratives prealables, le legislateur contredit le rgime de liberte qu'il pretend consacrer ("la communication audiovisuelle est libre"). En effet, en contrepartie de l'octroi des autorisations, des obligations pesent sur les services de communication audiovisuelle prives. Leur respect est garanti par un disposi-3 tif elabore de sanctions administratives qui tend a se substituer a la repression penale. Or, si ce recours predominant a la repression administrative contribue a l'efficacite de la regulation de la communication audiovisuelle, c'est au detriment de la liberte : cette repression est mise en oeuvre par une autorite de nature administrative et les garanties beneficiant aux personnes sanctionnees ne sont pas equivalentes a celles de la repression penale.