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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...

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...