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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...

On 3 February 2011 the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications, ANCOM) opened a public consultation on a Draft Decision on amending the way of reporting certain statistical data by providers of public electronic communications networks or of publicly available electronic communications services (see inter alia IRIS 2010-8/43, IRIS 2010-10/37 and IRIS 2011-2/35). The statistical indicators have to be amended due to evolutions and trends in the Romanian and international electronic communications...

Romania’s Audiovisual Law could be changed, according to a Draft on the amendment and completion of the Legea Audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Audiovisual Law no. 504/2002) proposed mid-February 2011 by four deputies of the Democrat-Liberal Party, the major component of the ruling coalition (see inter alia IRIS 2009-2/29, IRIS 2010-1/36 and IRIS 2010-9/34). The Draft, which was withdrawn, corrected and proposed again in less than ten days, is mainly intended to merge the existing Audiovisual Law with most of the provisions of the Audiovisual Content Regulatory Code (Decision no. 187/2006 - Audiovisual...

The Autoritatea Electorală Permanentă (Permanent Electoral Authority - AEP) finalised the draft of an Electoral Code, which includes provision for all types of elections and referenda taking place in Romania. The AEP announced on 25 January 2011 that the Draft has been presented to political parties and experts and submitted for public consultation (see IRIS 2005-1/34, IRIS 2008-10/27, IRIS 2009-6/28, and IRIS 2009-10/24). The AEP intends to harmonise the Romanian electoral legislation and set up a general framework for all types of elections, in order to ensure greater coherence and stability...