In 2026, the National Council launched a new phase of the Twinning project with a two-day online seminar involving regulators from Italy, France, Germany, and Greece, as well as the Greek Digital Services Coordinator (EETT). The event focused on practical tools for regulating media services and ensuring transparency of ownership and funding.
Participants discussed the following topics:
- internal operational processes of foreign media regulators related to the licensing and registration of media outlets – ranging from linear broadcasters to on-demand services and online platforms;
- data collection tools for media organization registers aimed at ensuring transparency of ownership and media pluralism;
- funding models for regulatory authorities to safeguard the independence of their operations;
- sanctions and administrative procedures for handling complaints.
The seminars also addressed the issue of open data. Speakers outlined which categories of information should appropriately be made public and which should remain internal, taking into account personal data protection and security considerations.
For the National Council, such discussions are of practical value, as they contribute to the development of concrete solutions for expanding its own registers, integrating them with other state databases, and improving transparent and user-friendly procedures for handling complaints and resolving disputes between users and media outlets.
The next meeting will take place on 27 January. Participants will focus on how the implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the regulation of artificial intelligence in the media sector may affect the powers of the National Council, as well as on which specialised units and processes will need to be established or whether the mandates of existing structural units should be expanded.
The Twinning project is an EU instrument under which European regulators support the National Council in aligning its work with EU standards – ranging from internal structures and registers to the regulation of digital platforms and the implementation of new European acts in the media sector.
