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On 13 April 2017, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, promulgated the organic Law no. 66/2017 for the repealing of Article 29^1 of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002, with further modifications and completions. The above-mentioned article referred to the acquisition of television advertising space. Law no. 66/2017 was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 273/19.04.2017 (see IRIS 2016-10/24). The law was unanimously adopted by the Senate (upper chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 20 March 2017 and had previously been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber) on 15 June...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) imposed fines worth 1,167,500 lei (~EUR 259,400) in 2016 for breaches of the audiovisual rules (see inter alia IRIS 2008-5/27, IRIS 2009-1/29, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2011-1/44, IRIS 2011-6/31, IRIS 2012-1/39, IRIS 2012-4/36). According to the CNA 2016 Annual Report, unanimously adopted on 4 April 2017, the Council imposed 176 sanctions last year, of which 42 fines, 133 public warnings, and a decision to broadcast the text of the sanction for 10 minutes. Most sanctions were imposed for breaches of the legal framework with...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) adopted Decision No. 128 of 14 March 2017 with regard to amending CNA Decision No. 72/2012 on the conditions for issuing and amending the notice of retransmission (see inter alia IRIS 2015-8/29). A single modification was approved to Article 4 concerning the elements of the notice of retransmission, in the sense that the existing Article 4 became Article 4(1) and a new paragraph (2) was added: 2) The frequency allocation of program services shall reflect the following requirements: a) the television program services...

On 20 February 2017, two new local multiplexes were awarded in Iasi (northeast of Romania) and Timisoara (west of Romania) in the fourth DTT auction held by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (Autoritatea Națională pentru Administrare și Reglementare în Comunicații, ANCOM) (see IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, IRIS 2010-9/35, IRIS 2013-6/30, IRIS 2014-4/26, IRIS 2014-5/29, IRIS 2014-9/27, IRIS 2015-5/33, IRIS 2015-7/28, and IRIS 2017-2/28). M PLUS INVESTMENTS S.R.L, headquartered in Iasi, won the Iasi local multiplex, for which it must pay a licence fee amounting...

On 14 February 2017, the National Audiovisual Council (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului, CNA) adopted Decision no. 63 for the modification and completion of the CNA Decision no. 221/2011 with regard to the Audiovisual Code for audiovisual content (see inter alia IRIS 2006-4/33 and IRIS 2014-5/28). The main goal of the modification to the Audiovisual Code was to afford better protection to minors. The Decision will enter into force 30 days after its publication in the Official Journal of Romania Part I, except the new Article 117 a1), which will enter into force in 6 months’ time. In the Code,...