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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) imposed in February 2012 numerous severe sanctions on several Romanian television stations for breaching audiovisual rules with regard to the right to private life; the right to one’s own image; the protection of reputation and human dignity; the limit of advertising; the modification of rebroadcasting without permission; and the “must carry” principle (see inter alia IRIS 2011-1/44, IRIS 2011-6/31, IRIS 2012-1/38, and IRIS 2012-2/32). The commercial station Antena 1 was sanctioned for severe infringements of...

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...