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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued on 25 October 2011 several sanctions (fines and public warnings) on the main actors of the commercial news station Realitatea TV case. One of the main Romanian television news stations, Realitatea TV, was during the last few months at the centre of a big scandal, due to the fight about the taking over of the TV station by the new owner of the network (Elan Schwartzenberg) from Sebastian Ghiţă who had a management contract concerning the station, signed with its former owner, the Romanian tycoon Sorin...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued on 3 November 2011 public warnings to five Romanian commercial television stations (Antena 1, Antena 3, B1 TV, Realitatea TV and OTV) due to the way they covered a car accident caused on 16 October 2011 by the Romanian TV-star Şerban Huidu. The CNA monitored twelve TV stations on this matter. The CNA considered that the accident was covered excessively and that the stations breached legal provisions on dignity, the right to one’s own image and the observance of privacy in a difficult moment of a person’s...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued on 27 September 2011 a recommendation to radio and television broadcasters on how to deal with the media coverage of a very sensitive politico-economic long-run case: the Roşia Montană project. The lack of impartiality in the coverage of the topic by Romanian media already induced the Council to issue several sanctions, including public warnings issued on 22 September 2011 on the main domestic channel of the public radio broadcaster, Radio România Actualităţi, and the private television station, The Money...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) imposed severe sanctions on two commercial Romanian television stations for breaches of Art. 139 of the Codul Audiovizualului - Decizia nr. 220/2011 privind Codul de reglementare a conţinutului audiovizual, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare (Audiovisual Code - Decision no. 220/2011 concerning the regulation of audiovisual content, with further modifications and completions), and Art. 1 of Decizia nr. 210/2010 privind principii şi reguli de desfăşurare a campaniei electorale pentru alegerile parţiale...

The Board of Administration of the Centrul Naţional al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Centre - CNC) has reduced by 40 percent, starting from 1 September 2011, the maximum amount of non-reimbursable cumulated financial support for the promotion and domestic and/or international distribution of full-length films (see inter alia IRIS 2011-6/29, IRIS 2011-2/34, IRIS 2010-7/34 and IRIS 2010-2/30). The Decision no. 151 from 30 June 2011 was taken due to the economic crisis, budgetary constraints and the decrease of the sums collected by the Cinematographic Fund. The document modifies Decision...