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On 11 April, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) issued a communiqué dealing with the secret filming of prominent figures. It took this step after a famous Romanian TV presenter was followed by a reporter for several weeks without her knowledge or consent, and was even filmed in her own bedroom. The recordings were sold as still pictures to a magazine and broadcast on a private TV channel on 10 April. In its communiqué, the CNA ruled that the secret filming had breached the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 1 of Act no. 48/1992 on the activities of...

On 11 April, the Senate adopted the Legea pentru protectia informatiilor clasificate (Act on the protection of classified information) in the version previously approved by Parliament (see IRIS 2001-5: 15). The Act was adopted as a matter of urgency and was signed by the President on the same day. The Act regulates access to information which is "classified" for reasons of defence, national security and law and order, or to which, as "classified information" of economic and political significance, access is restricted. The Act entered into force on 12 April, when it was published in the Monitorul...

In accordance with a Bill tabled in May 2002, the current Legea Audiovizualului Nr. 48 din 21 mai 1992, modificata prin OUG 48/1999, aprobata, modificata si completata prin Legea Nr. 145 din 26 iulie 2000 (Act no.48 of 21 May 1992 on the activities of the electronic media in Romania) is to be replaced. Act no.48 has been amended many times over the last few years and the new legislation will incorporate the provisions of the relevant EC Directives more effectively. According to the Bill, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA) will have exclusive responsibility...

The Ministerul Comunicatiilor si Tehnologiei Informatiilor (Romanian Ministry for Communication and Information Technology - MCTI) is hoping that liberalisation of the communications market will be complete by 1 January 2003. The set of new laws that has been drafted for this purpose, and which is still at the planning stage, is intended to take into account all relevant EC directives. It will include provisions concerning electronic services and "e-procurement". At the beginning of March 2002, Government Decree 20/2002 on public procurement via electronic auctions entered into force. The Decree...

On 8 March, the "Decision on the approval of methodologies for the application of Act No. 544/2001 on free access to information of public interest" was published. Under the provisions of this Act, which was only passed last year, public institutions must communicate information of public interest to the press within 24 hours. Accreditations must be issued within 48 hours of applications being submitted. Ministries and local public administrative bodies are obliged to set up their own press offices. Premises must be set aside for this purpose within 30 days of the rules being published. The necessary...