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Public Order No. 72/2010 issued by the Head of the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Protecţia Consumatorilor (National Consumer Protection Authority - ANPC) and published on 15 March 2010 in the Monitorul Oficial al României (Romanian Official Gazette) contains a number of measures aimed at improving consumer information. The new rules came into force 30 days after their publication. The new provisions include a rule that administrators of websites on which goods are offered, online orders are taken and/or advertising is accepted for certain products and/or services - such as e-commerce articles, tourist...

Representatives of the Inspectoratul General al Poliţiei Române (General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police), the Ministerul Public (Public Prosecutor's Office) and the Centrul Român pentru Copii Dispăruţi şi Exploataţi Sexual (Romanian Centre for Missing and Sexually Abused Children - FOCUS) held a public meeting on 25 February 2010 in order to discuss how to implement the European project for national warning systems for abducted and missing children in Romania. Romanian broadcasters and the Direcţia pentru Apel Unic de Urgenţă „112“ (Office for the Single Emergency Number "112") are also involved...

On 12 February 2010 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media, CNA) published the audience-based ranking list of the Romanian TV stations in order to put into practice the „must carry“-principle regulated by Article 82 of Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002. The Asociaţia Română pentru Măsurarea Audienţei (Romanian Association for Audience Measurement, ARMA) issued the list of the annual audience index of the TV stations. According to Article 82 of Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002 (see IRIS 2002-3: 11, IRIS 2009-2: 17 and IRIS 2010-1: 1/36) the providers of electronic...

The Romanian Senate will resume the vote for the Ordonanţa de Urgenţă nr. 22/2009 (Emergency Decree No. 22/2009, OUG 22/2009), which establishes the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii (National Authority for Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM), the leaders of the upper Chamber of the Parliament decided on 2 March 2010. The OUG 22/2009, adopted by the Romanian Government in March 2009 (see IRIS 2009-5: 18), was on the Senate’s agenda on 16 occasions, but the senators failed to adopt or to reject the document for various reasons. The Act...

The switchover from analogue to digital television on 1 January 2012 will be delayed for six months. The Romanian Government is to adopt a Decision on the granting of licences to use radio frequencies within the digital television system. The document was approved by the National Council for Electronic Media (CNA) on 14 January 2010. The Government Decision modifies the Strategia privind tranziţia de la televiziunea analogică terestră la cea digitală şi implementarea servicilor mutimedia la nivel naţional (strategy for the switchover from analogue terrestrial television to digital television and...