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On 21 December 2015, the Romanian President promulgated the Law no. 345/2015 on the approval of the Government Emergency Decree no. 18/2015 of 10 June 2015 on establishing necessary measures for assuring the transition from the analogue terrestrial television towards the digital terrestrial television and the implementation of the multimedia services at national level, as well as on the completion of the Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002 (see inter alia IRIS 2009-9/26, IRIS 2010-1/36, IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, IRIS 2010-9/35, IRIS 2011-4/33, IRIS 2013-5/38, and IRIS 2013-6/30). The draft Law had...

On 15 December 2015, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council, CNA) issued the Recomandarea CNA nr. 4 din 15 decembrie 2015 (Recommendation no. 4/2015) with regard to the public communication of the reasons and the purpose of the summons or sanctions imposed by the Council, according to Article 93.1 of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002, with further modifications and completions. According to Article 93.1 of the Audiovisual Law, the broadcasters are obliged to communicate to the public the reasons and subject of the sanctions or of the summons applied by the National...

On 4 November 2015, the Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) rejected the Propunerea legislativă privind înfiinţarea Fondului Special pentru Jurnalismul de Investigaţii (draft Law on the setting up of a Special Fund for Investigative Journalism). The draft Law had been rejected by the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 25 February 2015. The decision of the deputies was final (see IRIS 2014-8/4). The draft Law was intended, according to the proponents, to establish a Special Fund for Investigative Journalism meant to support through direct funding any...

On 28 October 2015, the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) rejected the Proiectul de Lege pentru completarea articolului nr. 13 din Ordonanţa Guvernului nr. 39/2005 privind cinematografia (draft Law on the completion of Article 13 of the Government Decree no. 39/2005 on Cinematography). The draft Law intends to add, through a new Article 13 (1) e1), another source of revenues for the Cinematographic Fund. The Fund was established to provide financial resources needed to develop cinematographic work as well as to help with the fulfilment of the duties incumbent on the National Film...

On 3 November 2015, the Romanian President promulgated Act no. 261/2015 on the modification and completion of Act no. 8/1996 updating the copyright and related rights (Legea 8/1996 actualizată privind dreptul de autor şi drepturile conexe - see IRIS 2002-3/20, IRIS 2005-3/34, IRIS 2006-8/27, IRIS 2012-4/38, IRIS 2015-5/30, IRIS 2015-7/27 and IRIS 2015-8/28). The draft Law modified Article 131(2) b) and Article 154(3) of Act no. 8/1996 and introduced a new letter i) to Article 1311 (1). The modifications were adopted on 23 March 2015, by the Romanian Senate (upper Chamber of the Parliament) and...