When The World asked him what he remembered from his six years as president of the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom, ex-CSA), Roch-Olivier Maistre spoke without interrupting for twenty-six minutes . Modernization of a body now regulating digital technology, stability of public broadcasting, protection of minors vis-à-vis adult sites, fight against piracy… always, he insists, with a concern for pluralism and respect for the 1986 law on freedom of communication which he helped to develop, in “young advisor” that he was then.
Monday January 20, it was in front of an audience of ministers, parliamentarians, presidents of companies, media and institutions that Mr. Maistre delivered a solemn but cheerful speech, unprecedented in the emotion he let shine through . Because not only is he who will be 70 years old in November closing the long chapter of audiovisual regulation, marked by six European regulations and directives and a dozen national laws, but he is closing a rich administrative career, begun at Paris City Hall (1982-1986), continued in the office of François Léotard, at the direction of the Comédie-Française (1993-1995), at the Elysée, or even at the Court of accounts.
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