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In Decision no. 391 of 26 March 2009 on the rules governing the audiovisual campaign (8 May to 6 June 2009) for the election of members of the European Parliament, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national council for electronic media - CNA) laid down a code of conduct for Romanian broadcasters. All political parties, political alliances, electoral pacts, organisations representing ethnic minorities and independent candidates involved in the election are categorised in the Decision as competitori electorali (election participants). According to Art. 2, they must be given access to certain...

Under the Ordonanţa de urgenţă 22/2009 privind înfiinţarea Autorităţii Naţionale pentru Administrare şi Reglementare în Comunicaţii, ANCOM (Emergency Decree No. 22/2009 on the establishment of the national administrative and regulatory authority for communication - ANCOM), which was adopted by the Government on 11 March 2009, the renamed regulatory body for communications, previously known as the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Comunicaţii (ANC)was placed under the control of the Romanian Parliament. It is hoped that this decision, which entered into force on 19 March 2009 when it was published in...

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...