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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...

On 18 October 2016, the National Audiovisual Council (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului) adopted a decision on the rules for the audiovisual coverage of the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections, scheduled in Romania on 11 December 2016 (see IRIS 2004-3/33, IRIS 2005-1/34, IRIS 2008-10/27, IRIS 2009-1/29, IRIS 2009-6/28, IRIS 2009-10/24, IRIS 2011-3/29, IRIS 2011-9/31, IRIS 2012-6/30, IRIS 2014-5/27, and IRIS 2014-10/30). The electoral campaign in audiovisual media starts on 11 November 2016 and ends on 9 December 2016 at 07.00 a.m. local time, 24 hours before voting starts. The...

The Chamber of Deputies (the lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) tacitly approved two draft laws intended to modify the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002 with further modifications and completions. The final decision belongs to the Senate (the upper Chamber), but the actual Parliament’s term will come to an end in mid-December 2016 and the above-mentioned draft laws are not high on the agenda, so there is little chance they will be discussed by the Senate in the present legislature (see inter alia IRIS 2013-6/27, IRIS 2014-1/37, IRIS 2014-1/38, IRIS 2014-2/31, IRIS 2014-6/30, IRIS 2014-7/29, IRIS...