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On 18 June 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) adopted a Recomandare privind nivelul tăriei sonore în programele audiovizuale (Recommendation on loudness in audiovisual programmes). The Recommendation was issued because of the loudness irregularities within programmes, between programmes of the same channel and between different radio and television channels, which triggered numerous complaints from listeners and viewers. The document is in line with the experience accumulated by different European states which put into practice the Recommendation...

Act no. 202/2013 (The Act) for the modification and completion of Act no. 158/2008 regarding misleading and comparative advertising came into force on 6 July 2013. The Act had been adopted on 29 September 2012 by the Romanian Senate (upper chamber of the Parliament) and on 5 June 2013 by the Chamber of Deputies. It was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 399 of 3 July 2013, Part I. The modified and completed law complies with Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising. The Act intends to assure the legislative coherence, to establish the competent authorities...

On 29 May 2013, the Romanian Government issued the Emergency Decree no. 53/2013 for the completion of Art. 14 of the Emergency Decree no. 22/2009 for the set up of the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM), the Romanian telecom watchdog (see IRIS 2009-5/31). According to the document, which introduces a new paragraph (5) into the above-mentioned Art. 14, the ANCOM has to transfer within 15 days of the Emergency Decree entering into force, the sum of RON 100 million (approximately...

On 6 June 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) unanimously adopted Decision No. 277/2013 on the procedure for the granting, modification, extension and transfer of audiovisual licences and authorisation decisions, except for digital terrestrial system broadcasting, along with the conditions regarding broadcasting of local programmes or the rebroadcasting of other broadcasters’ programmes. The Decision replaced the CNA’s previous Decision No. 488/2010 and Decision No. 260/2003 on the audiovisual licence transfer (see IRIS 2002-7/28, IRIS 2005-5/24,...

On 14 May 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) unanimously issued an opinion in favour of the Government’s Draft Decision for the approval of the TV digital switchover and the Strategy for the nationwide implementation of digital multimedia services (see IRIS 2009-9/26, IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, and IRIS 2011-4/33). Originally, the digital switchover was supposed to be accomplished by 1 January 2012, but in August 2012 the Romanian Government decided to postpone the transition for three years, due to the economic crisis (see IRIS 2010-9/35). According...