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On 11 September 2014, the National Audiovisual Council - CNA (Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului) adopted Decision No. 528 (Decizia nr. 528/2014 privind regulile de desfăşurare în audiovizual a campaniei electorale pentru alegerea Preşedintelui României) with regard to the rules of the audiovisual electoral campaign for the election of the President of Romania (see IRIS 2009-10/24 and IRIS 2011-3/29). The presidential elections are convened on 2 November (first round) and 16 November 2014 (second round). The electoral campaign lasts 30 days, from 3 October 00.00, until 1 November 07.00 (24 hours...

Following the digital television auction, three out of five multiplexes allocated to Romania were awarded to the state-owned National Broadcasting Company S.A. - RADIOCOM (Societatea Naţională de Radiocomunicaţii S.A. - RADIOCOM) for a total licence fee of EUR 1,020,002. The company RADIOCOM won one multiplex under the obligation to air free broadcasting and two other multiplexes in the UHF band sector (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 and IRIS 2014-5/29). The National Authority for the Management and the Regulation of Communication...

The Audiovisual Act No. 504/2002 with further modifications and completions (Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 cu modificările şi completările ulterioare) was modified by two different draft laws, which have been adopted by the Romanian Parliament (see IRIS 2010-1/36, IRIS 2011-4/31, IRIS 2011-7/37, IRIS 2013-3/26, IRIS 2013-6/27, IRIS 2014-1/37, IRIS 2014-2/31 and IRIS 2014-7/29). Act No. 95/2014 on the modification of Article 86 of the Audiovisual Act No. 504/2002 (Legea nr. 95/2014 pentru modificarea art. 86 din Legea audiovizualului nr. 504/2002) was published in the Official Journal of Romania...

The European Court of Human Rights has again reiterated that collecting information and guaranteeing access to documents held by public authorities is a crucial right for journalists in order to be able to report on matters of public interest, helping to implement the right of the public to be properly informed on such matters. In the case of Ioan Romeo Roşiianu, a presenter of a regional television programme, the Court came to the conclusion that the Romanian authorities had violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights by refusing access to documents of a public nature, which...

The Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 3 June 2014 rejected the Draft Law on the modification of the Ordonanţa Guvernului nr. 39/2005 privind cinematografia (Government Emergency Decree no. 39/2005 with regard to the cinematography). The decision of the Chamber of Deputies is final. The Draft Law had been rejected by the upper Chamber, the Senate, on 6 November 2013 (see IRIS 2003-2/23).   According to the rejected Draft Law, the public television, Societatea Română de televiziune - TVR, would have paid only 4% of its advertising revenues to the Cinematography Fund...