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After digital television was introduced in Romania through the private DigiTV service, several radio stations are now also being broadcast via both analogue and digital signals. Since the beginning of July 2005, the Societatea Naţională de Radiocomunicaţii (Romanian Radio Company - SNR), an independent firm and currently Romania's only operator of transmission equipment for public service broadcasters, has also been offering T-DAB services for the transmission of commercial radio stations alongside its existing services. Digital broadcasting offers improved sound quality, particularly on car radios,...

Decision no. 405 of 30 June 2005 of the Co nsiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (the Romanian regulatory authority for electronic media - CNA) amended CNA Decision no. 248 of 1 July 2004 on personality rights (see IRIS 2004-10:15). Article 11 of Decision no. 248 now states that, for the benefit of TV viewers, footage filmed using a hidden camera must always be denoted by a graphic symbol depicting a camera. CNA Decision no. 404 of 30 June 2005 also amended Decision no. 249 of 1 July 2004 on the protection of minors with respect to television programmes (see IRIS 2004-8:12). The following warnings...

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...