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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...

Five new regional and local multiplexes in Suceava, Botosani, Bacau, Buzau and Piatra Neamt (the northern and eastern parts of Romania) have been awarded in the third auction held by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii - ANCOM) for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) multiplexes (see IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, IRIS 2010-9/35, IRIS 2011-4/33, IRIS 2013-6/30, IRIS 2014-4/26, IRIS 2014-5/29, IRIS 2014-9/27 and IRIS 2015-5/33). A regional multiplex will cover the whole county with digital...

On 3 June 2015, the Romanian Government adopted a Draft Law for the completion of the Law no. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights (Legea nr. 8/1996 privind dreptul de autor şi drepturile conexe). The document is the response of the Government to the infringement procedure against Romania triggered by the European Commission on 27 May 2015 (see IRIS 2006-8/27 and IRIS 2015-5/30). The European Commission launched the infringement procedure against Romania and five other EU countries after setting in a reasoned opinion a term of two months to communicate the transposition of the Directive 2012/28/CE...

The Romanian Senate (upper chamber of the Parliament) rejected on 15 April 2015 the Draft Law on the modification of Article 40 of the Act no. 41/1994 on the organisation and functioning of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company and of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Company (Propunerea legislativă pentru modificarea art. 40 din Legea 41/1994 privind organizarea şi funcţionarea Societăţii Române de Radiodifuziune şi Societăţii Române de Televiziune). The decision of the Senate was final (see inter alia IRIS 2013-5/37, IRIS 2014-1/38, IRIS 2014-6/30). The Draft Law had been tacitly approved...