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Following the tragic scale of this year's floods in Romania's Danube region and the large number of families affected, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (regulatory body for electronic media in Romania - CNA) granted special permission to broadcasters in a communiqué dated 18 April 2006: if they were willing to organise relief action to help those affected, they would be allowed, in reports on such action, to name those who were making donations, including the names of any goods that were offered as aid.

At the end of March 2006, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian regulatory body for electronic media - CNA)and the Asociaţia Română de Comunicaţii Audiovizuale (Romanian audiovisual communications association - ARCA) signed a protocol designed to ensure closer compliance with Council of Europe Recommendation (2000) 23 (see IRIS 2001-1:2). The Recommendation states that, before imposing sanctions, regulatory authorities in the audiovisual sector should give broadcasters the opportunity to be heard. In the protocol, the CNA agrees to inform the broadcaster concerned about the existence...

Five advertising spots in which private banks advertised bank loans and lease finance were banned by the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian regulatory body for the electronic media - CNA) at the beginning of April 2006. The CNA took this step on the grounds that the actual annual interest and the total cost for the consumer were not expressly indicated in the spots. One advertisement mentioned "small monthly instalments of EUR 11", while in the right hand corner of the screen the actual credit value of EUR 16 per month was written in tiny, virtually illegible letters. Similarly, in...

At the beginning of March 2005, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (the Romanian regulatory body for electronic media - CNA ) adopted a new, partly amended code ( Codul de reglementare al Consiliului Naţional al Audiovizualului ) summarising all the important legal provisions on audiovisual content. The code was drawn up following consultations with broadcasters' representatives and the public. With a view to Romania's accession to the EU, it is designed to bring the country's legislation into line with existing EU regulations. The 160 articles of the code are divided into chapters regulating...

At the end of 2005, the Consiliul General al Municipiului Bucureşti (Bucharest City Council) introduced a new municipal tax for professional filming and photography in public areas (Taxa pentru utilizarea locurilor publice pentru filmare şi fotografiere profesionistă) . Depending on how central the location of the filming or photography is (Bucharest is divided into four zones, A to D), film producers have to pay a daily charge of between RON 72 (central zone) and RON 32 (outer zone) per square metre of land used (EUR 1 = RON 3.6). This Decision No. 216 of 11 October 2005 entered into force on...