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The article is devoted to the characterisation of hypocontinuity for bilinear maps. Let \(E\), \(F\) and \(G\) be topological vector spaces and \(b:E \times F \to G\) be a bilinear map. The map \(b\) is called \(\mathcal N\)-hypocontinuous for a family \(\mathcal N\) of bounded subsets of \(F\) if for each neighbourhood \(V\) of zero in \(G\) and each \(A \in \mathcal N\), there is a neighbourhood \(U\) of zero in \(E\) such that \(b(U,A) \subseteq V\). \textit{P. Antosik} and \textit{C. Swartz} [`Matrix methods in analysis', Lect. Notes Math. 1113, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York (1985; Zbl 0564.46001)] and \textit{C. Swartz} [Math. Z. 186, 321-329 (1984; Zbl 0545.46004)] studied the hypocontinuity for bilinear maps earlier. In the present paper, new theorems concerning the \(\mathcal N\)-hypocontinuity of a separately continuous bilinear map on paranormed spaces are obtained, which supplement and generalise some classical results on hypocontinuity.