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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...

The Legea nr. 67/2013 pentru aprobarea Ordonanţei de urgenţã a Guvernului nr. 19/2011 privind unele măsuri pentru modificarea unor acte normative în domeniul comunicaţiilor electronice (Law no. 67/2013 on the approval of the Government’s Emergency Decree no. 19/2011 with regard to measures for the modification of some electronic communications acts) was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 176 of 1 April 2013, Part I (see IRIS 2009-5/31, IRIS 2010-1/36 and IRIS 2012-10/23). The Emergency Decree was triggered by the infringement proceedings of the European Commission against Romania...

On 11 March 2013 the Romanian Senate (Upper Chamber of the Parliament) approved the Legea pentru aprobarea Ordonanţei de urgenţã a Guvernului nr. 33/2012 privind unele măsuri pentru asigurarea furnizării serviciului public de televiziune (Law on the approval of the Government’s Emergency Decree no. 33/2012 on safeguarding the provision of public service television). The Draft Law had been approved on 8 October 2012 by the Chamber of Deputies (Lower Chamber) and promulgated by Romania’s President on 28 March 2013. The Law (Law no. 68/2013) was published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 183,...