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On 11 April 2011 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) issued a ranking list of TV stations in order to put into practice the „must carry“ principle according to Art. 82 of the Legea audiovizualului nr. 504/2002, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002; see IRIS 2010-4/37). The list was drawn up by the Asociaţia Română pentru Măsurarea Audienţei (Romanian Association for Audience Measurement - ARMA). Art. 82 of the Audiovisual Law includes the “must carry” principle that providers of electronic communications networks...

The Centrul Naţional al Cinematografiei (National Centre of Cinematography - CNC) announced the results of the subsidising session for the organisation of or attendance in inter-/national film festivals or fairs, the support of cultural and cinematographic education programmes (workshops), the publishing of cinematographic specialised works and for other activities or projects organised from 1 July to 31 December 2011. In addition the CNC announced the results for the second 2010 direct subsidising session for Romanian film productions and the development of cinematographic projects (see inter...

Two different legislative initiatives with regard to blocking websites with harmful or inappropriate content are under debate in Romania. Firstly, though rejected by the Romanian Senate on 26 April 2011, a draft law on preventing and fighting pornography, aimed at a review of the legislation on pornography (Law no. 196/2003 modified by Law no. 496/2004), proposed by the Government, will be sent to the Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber of Romania’s Parliament), which will have the final decision. Secondly, the Government adopted Decision no. 150/2011 (Official Journal of Romania no. 179 of 1 March...

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...