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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...

The Oficiul Român pentru Drepturile de Autor (Romanian Copyright Authority - ORDA)was founded in 1996 as a specialist body answerable to the Government and was the only national regulatory authority responsible, in partnership with the public monitoring bodies, for protecting copyright by means of national registers. For a while, the ORDA worked under the auspices of the National Control Authority (Autoritatea Naţională de Control). However, following the adoption of the "National Copyright Strategy 2003-2007" (Strategia Naţională în domeniul Proprietăţii Intelectuale în perioada 2003-2007), which...

Decision No. 213 of Romania's National Audiovisual Council (CNA) on the procedure for the granting of audiovisual licences and the licensing of terrestrial transmission of broadcast programmes entered into force at the end of March 2005. Articles 3 to 10 of CNA Decision No. 213 regulate the tendering procedure for broadcasting licences. Article 3, for example, stipulates that the CNA must publicise any tendering for broadcasting licences, through advertisements in the printed media and on its own homepage (www.cna.ro), for example. Article 4 lists all the documents that must be submitted with the...

Act No 457/2004 on the Advertising of Tobacco Products (Legea privind publicitatea şi sponsorizarea pentru produsele din tutun),published in parliamentary gazette No 1067 of 17 November 2004, introduces new rules on the advertising of tobacco products and sponsorship by tobacco companies. The Act is modelled on relevant EU texts including Directive 2003/33/EC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products, and certain provisions of Council Recommendation No 2003/54/EC on the prevention...