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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...

On 16 May 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) rejected by 8 votes to one the Draft Decision to oblige media service providers to install and display a counter for TV advertising. The president of the CNA issued the proposal to install counters that are displayed simultaneously with the advertisement directly on the TV screen. The counter is supposed to enable viewers to control whether the media service providers comply with the quantitiatve advertising rules of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU and the national media law, specifically...

On 14 May 2013, the Camera Deputaţilor (Chamber of Deputies, Lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) rejected the Draft Law on the modification and completion of the Government’s Ordinance no. 39/2005 with regard to cinematography. The decision was final (see IRIS 2009-1/106). The rejected Draft Law was intended to correct some deficiencies of the existing Act, which had been claimed by many film producers. It was initiated in 2010 by a group of eight senators and adopted by the Upper Chamber on 17 May 2010. One of the main deficiencies to be abolished would have been the loss of film producers'...

The Camera Deputaţilor (Chamber of Deputies, Lower Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) approved on 23 April 2013 the Government’s Emergency Ordinance no. 25 of 10 April 2013 for the modification and completion of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002. The Romanian Senate (Upper Chamber) will have the final decision (see inter alia IRIS 2010-1/36, IRIS 2011-4/31, IRIS 2011-7/37, and IRIS 2013-3/26). The Emergency Ordinance intends to boost the development of the Romanian audiovisual market by fostering and encouraging local TV production, investments in local programmes and other developments and economic...