Abstract EN:

In the recent years, the audiovisual sector has seen a signifiant evolvement and development in the states members of OCDE. This expansion has been accompanied by development of the private audiovisual sector and a correlating unprecedented merger movement in the media sector both in Europe and the United-States. Faced with this movement, most of the democratic states are concerned as to the high level of integration of such a special sector. Consequently, by its potential negative impact on pluralism (and even to the democracy itself), they have tried to limit risks against pluralism. The methods used by these states have mainly focused on competition law and media law. Whether media law provisions, especially audiovisual communication law provisions, are effective tools sufficient to ensure pluralism, would not seem to be the case. Moreover, with technological changes in progress, we may wonder if the media sector should not merely and purely be subject to antitrust law, which is becoming more predominant in the media sector.