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The Chamber of Deputies (lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 3 June 2014 rejected two Draft Laws on the use of sign language. The upper Chamber, the Senate, had rejected the Draft Laws on 6 November 2013. However, two other Draft Laws on the same subject are currently under debate (see IRIS 2012-8/34 and IRIS 2014-2/31). The initiators warned that there are more than 25,000 hearing impaired persons in Romania. The first Draft Law (Pl-x nr. 493/2013), backed by 6 Liberal MPs, intended to decide on the use of Romanian sign language or of sign language through an authorised official interpreter....

The Legea nr. 71/2014 pentru modificarea şi completarea Legii nr. 41/1994 privind organizarea şi funcţionarea Societăţii Române de Radiodifuziune şi Societăţii Române de Televiziune (Law no. 71/2014 with regard to the modification and completion of Law no. 41/1994 on the organization and operation of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and of the Romanian Television Corporation) was published in the Official Journal of Romania, no. 398, of 29 May 2014, Part I. The Law is meant to help the financing of the production and broadcasting of programmes abroad by the Societatea Română de Radiodifuziune...

The Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) on 3 June 2014 approved the Draft Law on the modification of Art. 86 of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 cu modificările şi completările ulterioare (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002 with further modifications and completions). The decision of the Senate is final. The Draft Law has been approved by the lower Chamber (the Chamber of Deputies) on 11 February 2014 (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 and IRIS 2014-2/31). According to the Draft Law, the modification of Art. 86 is meant...

On 15 April 2014, the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) approved the draft law on the approval of the Government Emergency Decree no. 110/2013 for the completion of the Law no. 41/1994 on the organization and operation of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and of the Romanian Television Corporation. The Emergency Decree was meant to allow the Parliament to appoint easily an interim Director General of the public broadcasters in case that the plenum of the Parliament does not succeed in reaching the legal quorum. On the other hand, the Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber)...

The Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) suspended the activity of 49 electronic communications providers for 60 days for failure to comply with their obligations of sending statistical data for the first semester of 2013. The decision was made public through a press release issued on 16 April 2014 (see IRIS 2010-8/43 and IRIS 2012-10/23). After the expiry of the deadline for sending the statistical data for the first semester of 2013, in February 2014, ANCOM communicated the suspension decisions...