Euromedia Ownership Monitor

The European Democracy Action Plan3 and the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan4 aim to strengthen media freedom and media pluralism. One of the measures announced is to improve the understanding and public availability of media ownership information. To achieve this objective, the EDAP announced that the Commission would co-finance the new Media Ownership Monitoring System, a pilot project setting up a publicly available database containing relevant information on media outlets. Improving media ownership transparency is also an objective of the European Media Freedom Act. This project should build on the results of the past pilot projects and is expected to update the information on media ownership currently available in the public database. The project should also update the assessment of the relevant legal frameworks as well as risks to media ownership transparency, taking also into account of the work carried out by the Media Pluralism Monitor. in the area of media ownership and control.