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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian National Audiovisual Council - CNA)has stipulated in a recommendation to all Romanian broadcasters that “separate levying of import duties should be subject to a conformity criterion that will in future allow the acceptance of television advertisements using a type size different from that of accompanying text information”. The CNA thus accepts that until 1 January 2007, in television advertising for cars “price information that includes all duties and taxes will appear in type half the size of that used for price information omitting these details”....

The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (regulatory body for electronic media in Romania - CNA) has ruled that, during the TV broadcast of the football match between Bucharest's top division teams Steaua und Dinamo on 9 April this year, banners advertising alcoholic beverages had been displayed at Dinamo's stadium, infringing the Legea privind publicitatea (Advertising Act no. 148/2000), amended by the Ordonanţa de guvern (Government Order) no. 90/2004. The CNA sent a written complaint to the Liga Profesionistă de Fotbal (Romania's professional football league) and to the municipal authority...

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...