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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...

On 17 November 2009, the Curtea de Apel Bucureşti (Bucharest Appeal Court) overturned decision no. 237/2006 of the Consiliul Concurenţei (Competition Council), imposing two fines totalling approximately RON 7.1 million (EUR 2.1 million) against the cable provider UPC România. According to information given by the Romanian Competition Council on 12 December 2006, the competition authority, as a result of investigations conducted over several years, suspected the two cable TV companies UPC and Hi-Fi Quadral of reaching a cartel-like agreement in 2001 with the aim of sharing between themselves the...

The contest for film project subsidies organised by the Centrul Naţional al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Centre - CNC) in 2010 will be run under almost the same Regulation as in 2009, despite the criticism of Romanian filmmakers with regard to the conditions of the contest. The Regulation has been slightly modified only to be in line with the amended Legea cinematografiei nr. 303/2008 (Cinematography Law no. 303/2008; see IRIS 2009-1: Extra). The Ministry of Culture changed five articles of the Regulation through an Order published in the Official Journal on 30 December 2009. The only...