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The launch of this year's season of the reality show "Big Brother" by the private station Prima TV led to intervention by the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audio-Visual Regulatory Agency, CNA) after some sex scenes had been broadcast. In March 2004 the CNA fined Prima TV twice (CNA resolutions of 16 and 26 March respectively). The first fine amounted to ROL 200 million and the second to ROL 500 million (exchange rate: 1 Euro equals ROL 40,700). These penalties originated from the broadcasting of sexual scenes at inappropriate times and without any explicit warnings in the prescribed...

This summer, local elections will be held in Romania, with parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for the end of the year. Several bills relating to these elections are currently being debated in the Romanian Parliament, including one stipulating how much advertising time political parties should be allocated in the electronic media during the campaign. In this regard the proposals of the parliamentary committee responsible for preparing the bills are very different from those of the Consiliului Na tional al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council ­ CNA). The relevant bill (Proiectul...

Decision No. 274 of the Consiliului National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council, the supervisory body for electronic media in Romania ­ CNA) of 25 September 2003 on correct public information (see IRIS 2003-10: 15) was amended and completed at the end of 2003. CNA Decision No. 377 states that certain occupational groups may no longer make or present informative audiovisual programmes in the electronic media. The newly added para. 3 of Article 1 of the decision lists the following categories: a.) MPs; b.) representatives of national and local public administration; c.) representatives...

In mid-January the Consiliul National al Audiovizualu, lui (National Audiovisual Council ­ CNA) imposed fines on two television broadcasters for breaches of regulations designed to protect minors. The two private broadcasters, Antena 1 and Pro TV, had both broadcast video footage in their TV magazine programmes of a young person committing suicide. In addition, Antena 1 had broadcast a documentary on child pornography on the Internet including only slightly concealed scenes from one of the allegedly pornographic films involving minors. The CNA held that in view of their potentially harmful effect,...

The new Film Act adopted in Romania on 27 November 2002 not only introduced new regulations on every aspect of the organisation, funding and production of films; one of its main aims was also to encourage private initiative in the area of national film production while at the same time making Romania attractive for foreign film producers interested in co-productions (see IRIS 2003-­2: 13). This concern also gave rise to the introduction of tax relief for film producers, which will still apply in certain circumstances even after the entry into force of the country's new tax laws on 1 January 2004....