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Decision N° 403 of 30 June 2005 of the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (national supervisory body for electronic audiovisual media - CNA ) defines the procedure and conditions applicable in Romania for the granting of national, regional and local licences. After a number of definitions set out in Art. 2 (eg. “audiovisual licence“, “national”, “regional”, “local” licence, “telecommunications network“), Art. 3 explains that audiovisual licences for terrestrial broadcasting are granted on the basis of tenders, and that in the case of network broadcasting ( reţea de telecomunicaţii), licensing...

A draft regulation on film production drawn up by the Romanian Ministry for Culture was adopted by the government on 14 July 2005 as Regulation N° 39 with effect from the beginning of August 2005. Above all, the new rules, which replace the previous Legea cinematografiei nr. 630/2002 (Film Act N° 630/2002, see IRIS 2003-2: 13) should create better funding possibilities for Romanian film productions and improve the competitiveness of all domestic producers. More attention will be paid in future to quality guarantees when film projects requiring funding are selected to take part in project bids....

At the end of May 2005, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romanian regulatory body for electronic media - CNA ) instructed Romanian TV companies to comply more closely with the provisions of CNA Decision No. 254/2004 on sponsorship, advertising and teleshopping (Decizia CNA nr. 254/2004 privind sponsorizarea, publicitatea şi teleshoppingul), particularly in TV press review programmes. According to the decision, this step was necessitated by the fact that "certain television programmes illegally advertise particular publications, which has a negative impact on free competition in the printed...

On 24 June 2005, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) adopted four new reports as part of its ongoing monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2005-7: 3). The country reports, which examine the situation in Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Spain, were adopted in the context of ECRI’s third monitoring cycle. Each report contains specific recommendations concerning the media. In three of the reports, ECRI expresses its concern that instances of incitement...

In a decision which entered into force in mid-March 2005, the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (Romania's national broadcasting authority - CNA ) banned the glorification of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes or the defaming of the victims of such crimes. Decision No. 204, published in the Romanian Official Gazette of 15 March 2005, is based on the premise that "certain historical truths, such as the crimes committed during the Nazi or Communist periods, may not be called into question". It strictly prohibits the trivialisation of the offences committed by totalitarian regimes, the portrayal...