Evaluation of Geo-blocking Regulation – Open Public Consultation | Views of Connect Europe & the GSMA
Europe’s audiovisual sector depends on territorial exclusivity to finance, produce and distribute diverse content. Maintaining the current framework is essential to safeguard Europe’s audiovisual ecosystem, protect cultural diversity and support content availability for consumers.
In our response to the evaluation of the Geo-blocking Regulation, Connect Europe and the GSMA underline why audiovisual services must remain outside its scope:
Territorial exclusivity – essential for producers to raise funds, manage risk and support a sustainable audiovisual industry. It enables investment, local promotion and content differentiation.
Consumer impact – expanding the Regulation would increase licensing costs, reduce access to content and mainly benefit global non-European platforms.
Cultural diversity – weakening territorial licensing would reduce the number of European works produced, shrink budgets and limit diversity across distribution channels.
European co-productions – co-production relies on territorial exclusivity to share financial and creative risks and ensure high-quality European content. Removing it would undermine funding models and ongoing EU initiatives.
