Recent legislative developments in Algerian media regulation

Abstract EN

The rules regulating media and communication activity are distinguished as rules of a different legal nature, and this is due to the nature of media and communication activity as a vital field that intersects with a group of other activities in society.

We mention, for example, but not limited to, the Penal Code, the Commercial Law, the Labor Law, and other laws that all combine to regulate media and communicationactivity.

In another part of the research, we must point out the need to be guided by the different legal schools and their impact on the nature of media legislation, which explains the differences that exist at the level of legal texts between one country and another and between one region and another.

From this intellectual background, we will work on defining the different levels of media legislation based on an analytical.

reading of the Organic Law 05-12 related to the media, and to what extent it is in line with the modern trends of media legislation