Broadcast Law: The Regulator and the Field
Broadcasting in Georgia is regulated by the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting. Article 2 of the law assembles the basic terms of the field and defines the regulator: the Commission — the Georgian National Communications Commission — whose regulatory scope covers the fields of media services and video-sharing platform services. Regulation means the adoption of legal acts by the Commission and the carrying out of monitoring, supervision, control and coordination.
The law describes the field in two directions: one is classical broadcasting, carried out through a broadcasting schedule and chronological order, and the other is on-demand audiovisual media services and video-sharing platform services. The distinguishing criterion between them is editorial responsibility: a broadcaster and a provider of on-demand audiovisual media services exercise effective control over the selection and organization of programs, while a provider of video-sharing platform services delivers user-generated videos without editorial responsibility.