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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...

A Memorandum of Understanding on mutual co-operation and exchange of information between the Czech Council for Radio and TV Broadcasting, the Hungarian National Radio and TV Commission, the Polish National Broadcasting Council, the Romanian National Audiovisual Council, the Serbian Republic Broadcasting Agency and the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Retransmission was signed on 10 December 2009 in Prague. Each signatory shall prepare a brief summary of the relevant legislation in the respective country for the regulation of the content of and advertising in TV and radio broadcasts. The purpose...

At its meeting on 5 November 2009, on the basis of a monitoring report drafted by its own experts concerning compliance with legal advertising time restrictions, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media - CNA) sanctioned three private broadcasters for exceeding the legal advertising limit during the observation period (15-22 October 2009, between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.). CNA decision no. 927 imposed a fine of RON 20,000 (EUR 1 = RON 4.3) on TV broadcaster ANTENA 1 for non-compliance with the hourly upper limit for advertising. According to Art. 35 para. 1 of...

The Romanian Fondul Cinematografiei (Cinematography Fund) could be cut by approximately 40% in 2010. This would be the effect of the decrease in financial contributions from TV advertising and gambling. The Ordonanţa de Urgenţă nr. 77/2009 (Emergency Government Decree no. 77/2009, OUG 77/2009) has cancelled the 4% financial contribution from the profits of the gambling sector which constitutes about 20% of the Cinematography Fund’s budget. In addition, it is assumed that the Fund will diminish even more (10-20%), because of the decrease in advertising revenues of TV broadcasters due to the financial...