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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...

On 12 December 2016, Government Emergency Decree no. 91/2016 on the modification and completion of Government Decree no. 39/2005 on cinematography and on establishing some measures in the cinematography area (‘the Act’) came into force. The Romanian Government adopted the Act on 29 November 2016 (see IRIS 2003-2/23 and IRIS 2016-10/23). The Act aims at securing the functioning of the film production, making it more dynamic, and ensuring the access of the public to Romanian and European films. The Act changes the previous regulation in the way cinema production is financed through the Cinema Fund,...

On 19 October 2016, the Romanian President promulgated Law no. 187/2016, a modification of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002 with further modifications and completions (Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 cu modificările și completările ulterioare). The modification came into force on 20 October 2016. Another modification of the Audiovisual Law, with regard to prohibiting the advertising of medicinal products and pharmacies in audiovisual media, was finally rejected by the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 15 October 2016 (see inter alia IRIS 2013-6/27, IRIS 2014-1/37, IRIS 2014-1/38,...

On 5 October 2016, the Romanian Senate (upper Chamber of the Parliament) adopted the draft Law on the approval of Government’s Decree no. 21/2016 of 24 August 2016 on the extension of time limits provided by Government’s Emergency Decree no. 18/2015 on establishing the measures necessary to ensure the transition from analogue terrestrial television to digital terrestrial television and the implementation of multimedia services at national level (see inter alia IRIS 2009-9/26, IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, IRIS 2010-9/35, IRIS 2011-4/33, IRIS 2013-6/30, IRIS 2014-9/27, and IRIS 2016-2/26). According...