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On 29 January 2009, the European Commission issued a press release announcing the launch of an infringement proceeding against Romania due to an infringement of Community rules on the independence of the telecommunications regulator. This was triggered by the removal from office of the President of the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Reglementare în Comunicaţii şi Tehnologia Informaţiei, (national regulatory body for communication and information technology- ANRCTI) in August 2008 by the then Romanian Prime Minister Tăriceanu and the subsequent appointment of a replacement. Although the Bucharest...

Part of the Ordonanţa de urgenţă nr. 181/2008 pentru modificarea şi completarea Legii audiovizualului nr. 504/2002 (Emergency Decree no. 1818/2008 amending and supplementing Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002), which entered into force on 3 December 2008, adds the following definitions to the Audiovisual Act: "European works" in the sense of the Act are - works originating from EU Member States (Art. 1 para.1 letter a); - works originating from non-EU Member States that have signed the Council of Europe's Convention on Transfrontier Television and fulfil the conditions set out in para. 3 (Art. 1 para.1...

Through the Ordonanţa de Urgenţă Nr. 181/2008 pentru modificarea şi completarea Legii audiovizualului Nr. 504/2002 (Emergency Government Decree amending and completing Audiovisual Act no. 504/2002), which entered into force on 3 December 2008, Romania became the first EU Member State to transpose the provisions of EC Directive 2007/65/EC on audiovisual media services into its domestic law. As a result, TV advertising rules have been relaxed, since new advertising techniques such as product placement (plasarea de produse), split-screen advertising (publicitatea pe ecran partajat) and virtual advertising...

The Legea nr. 303 din 03/12/2008 privind cinematografia (Film Law No. 303) published in December 2008 brought about a number of key changes to Law No. 328/2006 especially with regard to the funding of independent film productions (see IRIS 2005-8: 18). For example, the new version of section 13(1) provides that the film fund shall be financed from the following sources among others: - 3% of the sales and rentals of recorded video cassettes, DVDs and other media carriers that can be copied in video format or by digital means; dealers and distributors of such carriers must provide the Centrul Naţional...

Shortly before campaigning ended for the parliamentary elections held in Romania on 30 November 2008, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media- CNA) took stock of the reported breaches of audiovisual laws and regulations (see IRIS 2008-10: 17). A CNA press release of 28 November 2008 reported that eight television and seven radio channels had participated in the election campaign at local level, along with 122 television and 204 radio stations at national level. Through their programmes "all these broadcasters ensured media coverage of the campaign throughout...