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The Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (CNA), the body responsible for monitoring the electronic media, has announced that it will be submitting an interview programme broadcast on public radio for expert analysis. It is alleged that the programme breached programming guidelines. This move follows an interview conducted by a journalist with a senator representing an extremist and ultra-nationalist opposition party. Even in the early stages of the interview, the senator had repeatedly accused Romania of supporting Islamic groups in 1995 and criticised the current government. Since the senator...

The proposal for an Act designed to guarantee public access to information has been approved by the new Cabinet and media representatives. A corresponding bill, drafted in collaboration with opposition party representatives by the new Ministry for Public Information, which was created in early 2001, was submitted to Parliament. The Bill was examined and approved by Parliament in mid-April and will now be debated by the Senate over the next few weeks. The Act on free access to information of public interest is designed to regulate how every citizen should enjoy equal access to such information....

On 21 September, a new chairperson was appointed to the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council - CNA). At the beginning of the autumn, the CNA was mainly dealing with specific regulations and supervision of broadcasting time and programmes devoted by Romanian broadcasters to the election campaign. The basis for its work was the D.C.N.A nr. 240 privind conditiile de prezentare si duratele programelor destinate campaniei electorale pentru alegerea Camerei Deputatilor si a Senatului si pentru alegerea Presedintelui României (CNA Decision no.240 on conditions for the broadcast...

On 1 November the Legea privind publicitatea (Advertising Act no.148), adopted by the Romanian Parliament on 29 June 2000, came into force. Previously, advertising in the Romanian audiovisual sector had been regulated by the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audiovisual Council) or merely self-regulated by advertising agencies and media institutions. The main purpose of the new Act is to protect consumers from misleading advertisements. Advertising is considered "misleading" if there is a deliberate intention to mislead the consumer by concealing essential information concerning the...

Ordonanta Nr. 124 pentru completarea cadrului juridic privind dreptul de autor si drepturilor conexe prin adoptarea de masuri pentru combaterea pirateriei in domeniile audio si video, precum si a programelor pentru calculator (Government Decree no.124 on the completion of the legal framework governing copyright and related rights through the adoption of measures to combat piracy in the audiovisual sector and piracy of computer software) was passed at the end of August 2000. In order to stem the increasing manufacture and sale of pirate and imitation copies of music and video cassettes and computer...