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On 21 September 2015, the Romanian Senate (upper chamber of the Parliament) rejected modifications of Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002. The Senate’s decision was final. According to Article 13 of the Audiovisual Law, the appointment of Members of the National Audiovisual Council (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului, CNA) may be revoked on request by a specialized commission of the Parliament, in case a Member is not able to exert his function for a period longer than 6 months, and in case of a penal conviction applied by a final court decision. According to the rejected modification of Article 13...

On 2 July 2015, the National Audiovisual Council, CNA (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului) adopted CNA decision no. 350/2015 on the modification and completion of CNA decision no. 72/2012 with regard to the conditions for issuing and amending the retransmission notification (see IRIS 2014-3/39). The decision was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 533 of 17 July 2015. It intends to clarify the procedure for implementing the must-carry system in the case of the retransmission of programme services at regional and local level according to Article 82 (2) of the Audiovisual Act. According...

On 27 July 2015, the Romanian President promulgated the Law no. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights (Law for the completion of the Legea nr. 8/1996 privind dreptul de autor și drepturile conexe) with regard to orphan works (see IRIS 2006-8/27, IRIS 2012-4/38, IRIS 2015-5/30 and IRIS 2015-7/27). The new Law no. 210/2015 was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 550 of 24 July 2015. It transposes into the Romanian legislation the Directive 2012/28 EC on certain permitted uses of orphan works. The Law has been adopted under an emergency procedure by the Senate (upper chamber of the Romanian...

On 21 July 2015, the Romanian President promulgated the Law no. 211/2015 on the modification of the Article 20 of the Audiovisual Law - no. 504/2002 republished - (Legea audiovizualului nr. 504/2002, republicată) with regard to the dismissal of the President of the National Audiovisual Council, CNA (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului). According to paragraph 4 of the new form of the above mentioned Article 20, the rejection by the Parliament of the annual activity report of the National Audiovisual Council means ipso jure the dismissal from office of the President of the Council. In the situation...

On 5 June 2015, the Romanian President promulgated the draft Law with regard to the approval of the Government Emergency Decree no. 110/2013 for the completion of Act no. 41/1994 on the organization and operation of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and of the Romanian Television Corporation (Proiect de Lege privind aprobarea Ordonanţei de urgenţă a Guvernului nr. 110/2013 pentru completarea Legii nr. 41/1994 privind organizarea şi funcţionarea Societăţii Române de Radiodifuziune şi Societăţii Române de Televiziune). The new law no. 134/2015 was published in the Official Journal of Romania...