The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) is the independent administrative authority responsible for regulating the audiovisual media sector such as television, radio, cable TV, and so on in the French-speaking community of southern Belgium.

The CSA is made up of a bureau and two Colleges: an advisory body (the Collège d'avis), responsible for issuing opinions on all matters relating to the audiovisual sector, and a decision-making body (the Collège d'autorisation et de contrôle),[4] responsible for granting broadcasting authorizations to private television and radio stations established in the French-speaking community, monitoring compliance with the obligations of service publishers, service distributors, and network operators, and sanctioning breaches of these obligations.

[6] It is also responsible for giving its opinion on: It must also draw up and maintain regulations on advertising communications, respect for human dignity, protection of minors, and political information during election periods.

[8] The Secretariat of Instruction is a special department within the CSA, that receives complaints or remarks from the public concerning radio or television programs: offenses against human dignity, gratuitous violence, protection of minors, application of signage, duration of advertising, for example.

[10] The departments are made up of twenty-six people working in different units specializing in specific fields (radio, television, distributors & new platforms, studies & research, communication and secretariat).

It receives complaints from the public concerning the audiovisual sector, in particular radio and television programs: advertising, violation of human dignity, gratuitous violence, protection of minors, and application of signage.

It investigates all admissible complaints and submits them to the Collège d'autorisation et de contrôle when it considers that an infringement of audiovisual legislation has been committed.

[12] After verification of compliance with regulatory conditions, acknowledgments of receipt of declarations of activity for 16 service distributors and 13 network operators were sent to the parties concerned.

[13] At least once a year the Authorization and Control Board is responsible for ensuring that private and public broadcasters comply with their regulatory and contractual obligations.

In addition to this recurrent control, the CSA notes any violation of the decree on audiovisual media services and video-sharing platforms, broadcasting regulations and agreements and, in the event of infringement, pronounces an administrative sanction ranging from a warning to the withdrawal of authorization, including a financial penalty and the publication of a press release describing the infringement.