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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...

In 1997, during a television programme that focused on the problems with access to administrative documents stored in the archives of the former Romanian State security services, C.I., a journalist with the satirical weekly ‘Caţavencu’, alleged that a politician, Liviu Petrina, had been active in the secret police Securitate. A few weeks later, the same journalist published an article reiterating his allegations. Similar allegations of collaboration by Petrina with the Securitate under the regime of Ceauşescu were also published by another journalist, M.D. Petrina lodged two sets of...

On 30 November 2008, elections to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will be taking place in Romania. In view of this, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului din România (Romanian National Audiovisual Council – CNA) adopted on 30 September 2008 Decision No. 792, which in addition to the existing legal rules (Electoral Law No. 35) and CNA regulations, lays down a number of “new principles and rules for the conduct of the election campaign by means of audiovisual programmes”. For the first time, the “candidaţi” (candidates) and the “competitori electorali” (election campaign participants)...

After checks carried out by the regional inspectors of the Council for Electronic Media ( Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului – CNA) revealed infringements of its regulations, the CNA decided to impose three sanctions at its meeting on 5 August 2008. Under CNA decisions 651, 652 and 653, the companies TEHNOCONSTRUCT and MC ELECTRONIC SAT were each fined RON 5,000 (EUR 1 = RON 3.57) while a reprimand was issued against a third company, OTASAU. The companies were punished for violating Art. 74 para. 3 of the Legea audiovizualului (Audiovisual Act) no. 504/2002, including the related amendments...