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On 6 March 2008, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council – CNA) and the Asociaţia Jurnaliştilor din România (Romanian Association of Journalists – AJR) signed a protocol on co-operation with regard to the application of ethical standards in the audiovisual sector, that is to say international standards on which the professional ethics of broadcast journalists are based. These standards include the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1003 (1993), the principles on guaranteeing the independence of journalists...

The European Commission has closed its procedure in accordance with Article 2a of the TVWF Directive involving the Romanian and the Hungarian media authorities and a television broadcaster called Cool Tv. Cool Tv is a television channel operating under Romanian jurisdiction but broadcasting in the Hungarian language for primarily Hungarian audiences. In recent years the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (Hungarian National Radio and Television Commission - ORTT) has received several complaints from viewers regarding one particular programme of the broadcaster entitled “Cool Sex”. The programme,...

On 12 February 2008, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media – CNA) signed a co-operation protocol with the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Protecţia Consmatorilor (Consumer Protection Authority – ANPC) in order to better guarantee compliance with Act No. 363/2007 on combating unfair commercial practices for consumers and harmonising provisions with European consumer protection legislation. The protocol is designed to improve the mutual exchange of information about known unfair commercial practices in the audiovisual sector and to warn consumers about such...

After monitoring the labelling of feature films broadcast on prime time television in February 2008, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national electronic media authority – CNA) found several violations of the rules on the protection of minors. On the basis of the relevant investigative reports, it imposed appropriate sanctions for breaches of the classification criteria set out in the Codul CNA de Reglementare a Conţinutului în audiovizual (CNA regulatory code for audiovisual content) at its public meeting on 27 March 2008. The broadcaster Kanal D was fined RON 2,500 (approx. EUR 680),...

The territorial inspection teams of the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council – CNA) have established in the last few months that a relatively large number of cable network operators, especially in rural areas, are distributing television channels without reaching a prior agreement with the programme providers. According to a recent CNA press release, a company in Voluntari, a locality close to Bucharest, is said to have set a rather dubious record with the illegal transmission of 54 television channels (piracy). Cable providers in the counties of Vrancea, Vâlcea and...