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On 26 February 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA), issued a Draft Decision for the modification and the completion of the Decizia nr. 220/2011 privind Codul de reglementare a conţinutului audiovizual, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare (Decision no. 221/2011 with regard to the Audiovisual Content Regulatory Code, with further modifications and completions, see IRIS 2006-4/33, 2007-4/30, 2011-4/31, 2011-6/27, and 2011-7/37). The draft is intended to improve the protection of minors against pornographic content and the protection...

On 16 January 2013, the Culture Standing Committee of the Romanian Senate (upper Chamber of the Parliament) rejected a bill for the modification of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002). The same day, the Committee also rejected a bill which intended to prohibit the use in radio and TV commercials of objects or symbols belonging to the national cultural patrimony. The plenum of the Senate will have the final decision on both bills, but there is no time limit (see IRIS 2010-1/36, IRIS 2011-4/31, and IRIS 2011-7/37). The first bill was proposed by four members of the...

On 22 January 2013, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA), the audiovisual regulatory authority, has withdrawn with immediate effect the license of the commercial TV station OTV. The decision was taken because OTV has not paid the numerous fines issued by the CNA in the last years for repeated breaches of the audiovisual legislation (see IRIS 2002-9/21, IRIS 2011-10/36, IRIS 2012-3/30, and IRIS 2012-6/31). The TV station was accused of breaching Art. 57 (1) d) of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002), which provides...

On 6 and 8 November 2012, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) imposed severe sanctions on four commercial Romanian television stations (PRO TV, Acasă TV, Kanal D and Antena 1) for violating the law on audiovisual services. Three stations (PRO TV, Kanal D, Antena 1) were obliged to interrupt their programmes and to broadcast for 10 minutes the text of the CNA’s sanctions. The fourth channel, Acasă TV, was fined RON 100,000 (about EUR 22,000), the second biggest legal financial sanction ever imposed. Acasă TV also was obliged to interrupt its programme...

Five mobile communications and Internet providers for the Romanian market have been granted a total of 485 MHz frequencies blocks in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz bands, the radio frequencies suitable for broadband voice mobile communications and Internet. The Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications and telecom watchdog - ANCOM), successfully concluded the spectrum auction on 24 September 2012 (see IRIS 2011-2/35, IRIS 2011-4/33, IRIS 2012-2/34). Five operators have won 485 MHz...