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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 The Draft, which was withdrawn, corrected and proposed again in less than ten days, is mainly intended to merge the existing Audiovisual Law with most of the provisions of the Audiovisual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...

The Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) has drafted a new Law on Electronic Communications and has submitted it for public consultation until 21 January 2011. The amendments became necessary following the review of the European Framework and the main purpose is to implement the new European Directives (see IRIS 2010-1/7). The amendments concern several areas: the general authorisation regime; the radio spectrum and numbering management; end-users’ rights; universal services; measures...

In December 2010 the Centrul Naţional al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Centre - CNC) announced that the applications for the second 2010 direct subsidising session for Romanian film productions and the development of cinematographic projects could be submitted until 31 January 2011 (see IRIS 2010-7/34). The total funds allocated for the session are of RON 10 million (EUR 2,331,000), of which RON 1.7 million (EUR 396,300) are for first fiction full-length films, RON 700,000 (EUR 163,200) for fiction short reel films, RON 1 million (EUR 233,100) for documentaries and for cartoons respectively,...