EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD, Directive 2010/13/EU as amended by Directive 2018/1808 and Directive (EU) 2023/2586) AVMSD-Art.2: Country-of-origin jurisdiction (Article 2)

Article 2 establishes the country-of-origin principle. Each Member State ensures that all audiovisual media services transmitted by media service providers under its jurisdiction comply with that Member State's law applicable to audiovisual media services intended for the public in the Member State concerned. Jurisdiction is established by primary criteria (head-office and editorial-decision location) and a cascade of secondary criteria; the 2018 amendment refined and codified these tests.