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The Legal Standing Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of Romania’s Parliament) decided on 18 September 2017 that the representatives in the Boards of Administration of the public radio and TV services may retain party membership during the exercise of their mandate, but not the leadership role within trade union organisations. The decision is due to put the intended modification of the Law no. 41/1994 on the functioning of the Romanian public radio and television services in accordance with the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Romania (see inter alia IRIS 2013-5/37, IRIS...

The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, promulgated on 16 June 2017 Law no. 141/2017 on the rejection of Government Emergency Decree no. 91/2016 on the modification and completion of Government Decree no. 39/2005 on Cinematography, as well as the setting-up of measures in the field of cinema. Law no. 141/2017 was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 461/20.06.2017 (see IRIS 2002-7/30, IRIS 2003-2/23, and IRIS 2016-10/23, EMR Newsletter no. 4/2017). On 20 February 2017 the Senate (the upper house of the Romanian Parliament) tacitly adopted a draft law for the approval of Government...

The Constitutional Court of Romania ruled on 12 July 2017 that some articles of the modified version of the Law no. 41/1994 on the functioning of the Romanian public radio and television services are not constitutional. The Court reacted to a complaint of unconstitutionality lodged by the National Liberal Party and the Popular Movement Party (opposition) (see inter alia IRIS 2013-5/37, IRIS 2013-10/36, IRIS 2014-1/38, IRIS 2014-2/30, IRIS 2014-4/25, IRIS 2014-6/30, IRIS 2014-7/30, IRIS 2015-6/33, IRIS 2015-8/26, IRIS 2016-5/28, IRIS 2017-3/26). The Court declared unconstitutional the provisions...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in a case against Romania, has confirmed the strong protection of the right to freedom of expression to be guaranteed to statements by journalists made within the context of a lively debate in a television show on a matter of public interest. Ms Predescu, an investigative journalist, complained of a violation of her right to freedom of expression. She appeared on a television show on a national television channel together with the Mayor of Constanţa, R.M., to discuss certain violent incidents that had taken place in Mamaia, a seaside resort on the...

On 27 April 2016, the Government of Romania adopted the Emergency Government Decree no. 33/2017 for the modification and completion of Article 11 of the Government Decree no. 22/2009 on the establishment of the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM - the telecom watchdog) (see IRIS 2009-5/31 and IRIS 2010-7/31). According to the new version of Article 11(1), the management of ANCOM is provided by a president and two vice presidents, proposed by the government and appointed by the plenary of the parliament, with the majority of the present MPs. A new paragraph...