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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,...

On 6 January 2017, the Romanian President promulgated Act no. 1/2017 that slashes 102 non-fiscal taxes and duties, including the public radio and TV fees, the consular and citizenship fees and the Environment Fee. The law was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 15 of 6 January 2017. According to an amendment adopted in the Budgets Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, the law enters into force on 1 February 2017, at the beginning of the first month following its publication in the Official Journal of Romania. On 28 December 2016, the Chamber of Deputies (the lower Chamber of the Romanian...

On 15 December 2016, the Autoritatea Națională pentru Administrare și Reglementare în Comunicații (National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) has launched a new auction for awarding the two national, 26 regional and 18 local digital terrestrial television multiplexes not awarded in the previous three selection procedures (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, and IRIS 2015-7/28). An applicant must be a Romanian or foreign legal person (company), it must accurately submit...