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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) decided on 14 April 2011 (Decision no. 286) to request audiovisual media service providers to publish their professional codes of conduct, if such codes exist, according to Art. 6 (5) of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law 504/2002; see inter alia IRIS 2010-10/38 and IRIS 2010-8/42). Within 30 days of the publication of the Decision in the Official Journal of Romania, the above-mentioned providers are obliged to publish permanently on the homepage of their websites, in a well visible place,...

On 11 March 2011, the European Commission annnounced that it has closed its preliminary probe into anti-competitive practices by collective rights management organisations (CMOs) in Hungary and Romania. The Commission feared that SCAPR, the international association of national performers’ collective management organisations, EJI, the national CMO in Hungary, and CREDIDAM, the national CMO in Romania, had been pursuing an anti-competitive policy regarding the membership of the organisations. Leading to restricted competition in the European Union and especially in Hungary and Romania, this would...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) adopted on 24 February 2011 a new Audiovisual Content Regulatory Code (Audiovisual Code; Decision 220/2011), which replaces the previous one (see inter alia IRIS 2007-4/30). At the same time, the Romanian Parliament began debating a draft project to change and complete the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002) proposed by several MPs. The project, severely criticised by the CNA, is intended to merge the Audiovisual Law with most of the provisions of the 2006 Audiovisual Code. The...

The European Commission has finished the preliminary analysis of the measures implementing the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive into national law notified by 16 Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Subsequently, the European Commission has sent fact-finding letters to these states inquiring about these implementing measures. The Commission is thus seeking to ensure that all provisions of the AVMS Directive have been correctly transposed into...

A number of Romanian associations, NGOs and companies from the telecommunications sector sent an open letter to the European Commission and the domestic authorities on 15 February 2011, requesting it to unfreeze the digital switchover in Romania (see IRIS 2009-9/26, IRIS 2010-3/34, IRIS 2010-7/32, IRIS 2010-9/35 and IRIS 2011-1/45). They requested the revision of the Strategy of transition to digital television until the end of the first quarter of 2011 and to set 2013 as the deadline for finishing the transition. The Romanian Government decided in August 2010 to postpone for three years, until...