What’s up with Ukraine’s media regulation in November 2025?

November, despite being a relatively quiet month in terms of legislation adoption, can pave the way for significant media policy shifts. The new Enlargement Report once again highlighted the critical areas for change to achieve European standards in the areas of media freedoms and digital regulation, while the dismissal of the Head of the President’s Office may modify the state’s approach to information and communication policy. The Parliament continued its work on the recodified version of the Civil Code, while the NBC quietly continued its efforts to sustain the independence of public service media.

The most notable events happening in this period were:

• the publication of Ukraine’s Enlargement Report 2025 with Ukraine’s progress on Euro-integration across all negotiation clusters, including in the spheres of media and digital transformation;
• the updates on the process of Civil Code provisions on personal rights recodification;
• the submission of the draft law suggesting fines for failure to comply with legislation on electronic communications during martial law;
• the continuing processes of the public service media’s supervisory board selection.

This series of digests, produced with the support of International Media Support (IMS), provides an overview of the proposed and adopted legislation in the spheres of freedom of expression, media regulation, privacy and data protection, Internet regulation in general, and the activities of the National Broadcasting Council in the area of Media Law implementation.

As usual, the digest contains references to the documents discussed in the previous issues of the digest and provides a follow-up to the acts and events described therein.