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On 3 June 2010 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media, CNA) imposed a 10-minute prime-time interruption in broadcasting on the commercial TV station Antena 1, as a sanction for its repeated breach of regulations concerning the protection of minors (see IRIS 2008-5: 17/27). Antena 1 was ordered to broadcast between 19.00 and 19.10 an announcement of the sanction issued by CNA for repeated breaches of the Audiovisual Law and of the Audiovisual Code in the show „Acces Direct” („Direct Access”). The Show is broadcast live from Monday to Friday between 17.00...

The Romanian Government adopted on 12 May 2010 a decision that regulates the switchover to digital television and enables the National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) to start the procedures to award the first two licenses in this field (see IRIS 2010-3: 1/34). The Government decision regarding the granting of licenses for the use of radio frequencies within the digital television system modified the Government’s Decision no. 1213/2009 (HG 1213/2009), which approved the Strategy of transition from analogue terrestrial television to digital television and the...

On 26 May 2010, the plenary session of the Romanian Senate adopted the Ordonanţa de Urgenţă a Guvernului, OUG nr. 22/2009 (Emergency Government Decree no. 22/2009) in its original form, establishing the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM) (see IRIS 2009-5: 18/31). The European Commission had written to the Romanian government on 29 January 2009 informing it that infringement proceedings would be launched if legislative provisions in Romania jeopardised the authority's independence...

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media - CNA) will continue its partnership with the Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării (national council for the fight against discrimination - CNCD) and the Biroul de Informare al Consiliului Europei la Bucureşti (Council of Europe office in Bucharest - BICE) for the period from 31 March to 31 July 2010. The aim of the partnership is to increase awareness of the Council of Europe's "Say NO to discrimination" campaign in Romania (see IRIS 2009-8:17). The Ministerul Administraţiei şi Internelor (Ministry for...

The Romanian Government was sued by several mobile telecommunications providers, such as Vodafone, Orange and RCS&RDS. They complained about the way the Government had granted a national licence for the 410-415 and 420-425 MHz frequency bands use for providing data and mobile electronic communications services networks. The providers claimed before the Court of Appeal that they had been excluded from the selection procedure by a Government Decision which, in their opinion, was arbitrary, because one of the articles stipulated that „providers which hold at least one national licence for using radio...