The Council of the Communications Regulatory Authority approves its text on the level playing field that private broadcasters must comply with. However, Agcom will establish the sanctions for everyone, provided for by law 28 of 2000.
For the first time since the promulgation of the law on equal conditions in 2000, the two regulations that implement it, that of AgCom and that of the Rai Supervisory Commission, are different, and it is certainly not a pure lexical question. The discrepancy introduces double standards for political actors who during the electoral campaign will have different treatment on public and private TV, with obvious repercussions on the electorate. The Supervisory Regulation broadens, among other things, the scope of government presence: an element strongly contested by the opposition who today applaud Agcom's decision not to implement the same request for private companies. The only novelty in this case is that the Authority will not limit itself to evaluating the amount of time used by political subjects in programming, but will consider the time slots in which the exposure of the subjects takes place.