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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,...

On 14 December 2010, the European Commission approved under EU State aid rules a Romanian scheme to support the development of the film industry, culture and cinematographic education in the amount of EUR 80.68 million (RON 347 million; see IRIS 2006-3/35). The Romanian support scheme provides for interest-free loans and non-reimbursable grants for the production of Romanian films or films made with Romanian participation and was considered in line with the State aid assessment criteria laid down in the Commission's Cinema Communication and lastly extended until 31 December 2012 (see IRIS 2009-3/3)....

In November 2010 the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) made public its proposed 2011 Action Plan for consultation (see inter alia IRIS 2010-10/37 and IRIS 2010-9/35). In the frequency spectrum field ANCOM will finalise a study with regard to the impact of the use of the 900 MHz frequency band for the supply of third generation electronic communications services using UMTS systems on the competition within the mobile communications markets. At the same time ANCOM will assess the...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) fined on 4 and 9 November 2010 several Romanian commercial TV stations and issued public warnings for others due to the violation of audiovisual laws with regard to the media coverage of sensitive cases and to the observance of advertising rules (see inter alia IRIS 2010-10/38, IRIS 2010-8/42, IRIS 2010-7/33, IRIS 2010-1/38). Pro TV and Antena 1 were imposed a fine of RON 20,000 (EUR 4,650) each, Kanal D of RON 5,000 (EUR 1,165), Antena 2 and OTV received public warnings because of breaches of the Audiovisual...