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On 26 May 2016, the President of Romania promulgated the Act no. 110/2016 for the completion of Article 13 of the Government Decree no. 39/2005 on Cinematography. The draft law, initiated by 63 members of the Parliament from almost all the political spectrum, had been approved by the Romanian Senate (the upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 28 October 2015 and by the Chamber of Deputies (the lower Chamber) on 10 May 2016 (see IRIS 2003-2/23). The initiators argued that cultural work is constantly underfinanced in Romania and that the Government Emergency Decree no. 77/2009 on the organization...

On 2 March 2016, the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) rejected a draft Law, which was intended to abolish the audiovisual licence fee. The Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) will have the final decision (see inter alia IRIS 2003-4/24, IRIS 2013-5/37, IRIS 2014-1/38, IRIS 2014-6/30, IRIS 2015-6/33). According to the initiators of the draft law, the licence fee collected by the Romanian public broadcasting services would be completely cut, and would not be replaced by another source of revenue. The Legislative Council, which issued a positive opinion on...

On 25 February 2016, the National Audiovisual Council (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului, CNA) issued Recommendation no. 2/2016 with regard to the correct use of the Romanian language in commercial communications aired by audiovisual media service providers (see IRIS 2011-1/37, IRIS 2012-3:1/31, and IRIS 2014-1/40). The Recommendation was triggered by more ads aired between November and December 2015 and is based on Article 6 paragraphs 1) to 5) and Article 17 paragraph 1) d) 2) of Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002, republished. These articles of the Audiovisual Law entail the powers of the CNA...

On 17 February 2016, the Chamber of Deputies, the lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, tacitly adopted the Draft Law on the completion of Audiovisual Law no. 504 of 2002, republished on 11 July 2014 (Propunere legislativă pentru completarea Legii audiovizualului nr. 504 din 2002, republicată în 11 iulie 2014). The objective of the Law is to ensure the information and education of the public under a scientific and technological aspect. The final decision belongs to the Senate, the upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament. The Draft law had been tabled by 75 Members of Parliament from almost...

On 9 January 2016, the President of Romania sent a request to the Romanian Parliament for a review of the Law prohibiting the advertising of medicinal products and pharmacies in audiovisual media. The leader of the main parliamentary party, PSD (Partidul Social Democrat), had previously asked the President to request the review of the Law because of a technical error which occurred during the voting in the Senate of the mentioned draft Act. The Law had been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Parliament) on 13 October 2015 and by the Senate (upper Chamber) on 14 December 2015...