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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) approved on 2 February 2012 Decision no. 72 on the conditions for granting and modifying a rebroadcasting notification. It was published in the Official Journal no. 118 of 16 February 2012 and replaced CNA Decision no. 12/2003 (see inter alia IRIS 2010-4/37, IRIS 2011-6/30 and IRIS 2012-2/32). According to the Decision, any person who intends to distribute TV and/or radio programme services has to request, under Art. 74 of the Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002, a rebroadcasting notification. The applicant has to...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued on 17 January 2012 a recommendation addressed to audiovisual broadcasters to inform correctly and in full about the important social protests that started in Romania in mid-January. The Council requested the broadcasters to observe the Legea audiovizualului nr. 504/2002, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare (Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002, with further modifications and completions) and the Codul Audiovizualului - Decizia nr. 220/2011 privind Codul de reglementare a conţinutului audiovizual, cu modificările...

On 19 January 2012 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) again sanctioned the commercial tabloid television station OTV for interrupting its programme for 10 minutes on 20 January 2012 at 19.00 local time, and for broadcasting only the announcement of the sanction. The trigger for the sanction was electoral advertising broadcast outside the electoral campaign period in favour of the political party Partidul Poporului - Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD, People’s Party - Dan Diaconescu) founded by the owner of the station: Dan Diaconescu (see inter alia IRIS...

The Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) will, in 2012, open for tender all radio frequencies available in the 900 and 1,800 MHz bands, currently used by the most important mobile communications providers in the Romanian market, Cosmote, Orange and Vodafone (see IRIS 2011-1/45). The decision was issued on 28 December 2011, the day after the Romanian Government’s transitory decision to prolong for one year the licences of the mobile telephony providers Orange and Vodafone, which would...

On 21 December 2011, the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) unanimously rejected the new draft Law on the retention of data generated or processed by providers of public electronic communications networks and by electronic communication services providers directed at the public, issued in November 2011. The new Draft was intended to implement the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC, after the Curtea Constituţională a României (Romanian Constitutional Court) decided on 7 October 2009, that the transposing Law 298/2008 was unconstitutional due to a breach of Art. 28 of the Romanian...