MedMedia Assessment on Media Legislation in Morocco

Unlike Tunisia, Libya or Egypt, for example, it was an evolution in the existing political regime and not a revolution that brought about the liberalisation of the Moroccan media. The lifting by legal decree of the state broadcasting monopoly inherited from the French protectorate, the setting up of the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (Supreme Audio-visual Communication Authority) (HACA) and the adoption in 2005 of an audio-visual communication law established the new legal and institutional framework of this liberalisation.