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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...

On 21 February 2002, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (CNA), which monitors the electronic media in Romania, published a Decision "on the amendment and completion of Audiovisual Council Decision no. 65/2000 on the application of rules on advertising, teleshopping and sponsorship in the electronic media". The proposed amendments mainly deal with self-promotion and teleshopping: "Self-promotion is not profitable and is strictly limited to the publicising of certain programmes to be shown by the broadcaster concerned or by any other broadcaster owned by the same licence-holder. It is not...

Act 48/1992, which currently regulates the audiovisual market in Romania, is to be replaced in the second half of this year. The provisions of the new Bill, drawn up by the Ministerul Comunicatiilor si Tehnologiei Informatiei (Ministry for Communication and Information Technology - MCTI), created a fair amount of controversy among the parliamentary specialist committees in February. The proposed regulations are designed to cut bureaucracy (the number of different stages or levels of approval in the award of licences for the electronic media is to be cut from four to two) and conform with the relevant...

The Romanian supervisory authority for electronic media, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (CNA), set out its main plans for 2002 in a press release issued on 17 January 2002. The main priority for the CNA in 2002 will be to monitor provisions for the protection of minors. The reason for this is a noticeable trend that emerged last year, with TV stations frequently broadcasting films containing scenes of horror, violence or sex in prime-time slots. These films should only have been shown after 10 pm with an appropriate warning. In this context, the CNA is urging broadcasters to ensure...