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The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers’ (CM) latest batch of country-specific Resolutions adopted in the context of the Second Monitoring Cycle of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) concern: the Russian Federation; Romania; Ireland and Norway. The Resolutions contain a number of provisions concerning the (audiovisual) media (for similar provisions in earlier country-specific Resolutions, see IRIS 2007-3: 6 and IRIS 2006-2: 4). The CM recommends that the Russian authorities “further improve access to the media of persons belonging to national minorities”...

The incessant drought and heat wave that hit Romania in the Summer of 2007 provided the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romania's audiovisual watchdog - CNA) with an opportunity to assess how broadcasters reported on the difficult weather conditions, the extraordinary heat, the lengthy period of drought, the isolated violent storms and other negative effects of climate change. The CNA found that most broadcasters "unfortunately could not resist the temptation in their news bulletins to exaggerate the seriousness of the situation and the extent of the negative impact of the climate on the...

According to a new decision, adopted at the beginning of May by the Romanian Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA), all broadcasters in Romania are obliged to guarantee that the programmes they broadcast are recorded in full and in real time at the same time as they are broadcast. The recordings must be preserved for thirty days from the date of the broadcast. A compulsory period of at least 45 days applies to the preservation of programmes in respect of which broadcasters have received requests for the right to reply to, or requests that correction statements...

For the first time in the history of Romania, on 19 May 2007, a referendum was held on the question of deposing the President. Immediately after the Romanian parliament’s decision of 19 April 2007 to suspend the country’s President, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) expressed in a press release (Comunicat de presă al CNA din 20 aprilie 2007) its concerns about the way in which the political events associated with this suspension were being portrayed on radio and television . It stated that incorrect information and erroneous views on the constitutional...

The remit of the Autoritatea Naţională pentru Reglementare în Comunicaţii şi Tehnologia Informaţiei (National Regulatory Authority for Communication and Information Technology in Romania - ANCRTI) includes keeping check on whether individual market participants in this sector are in compliance with the basic regulations contained in the Government Order No. 34 dated 30^th January 2002 on access to electronic communication networks, to the pertinent infrastructure and to its inter-networking. The ANRCTI accordingly operates as the anti-cartel authority in the communications and IT field....