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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...

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...