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At a meeting with electronic media programming chiefs held at the beginning of the year, the Romanian national audiovisual council, the CNA (the supervisory body for electronic media), complained about programme quality and the professional ethics of Romanian television broadcasters. The complaint firstly concerned light entertainment programmes broadcast on New Year's Eve and, to a certain extent, during preceding weekends. It was suggested to the programme directors that programme content had been tasteless, vulgar and even obscene. Another reason for the CNA's comments was the appearance on...

By enacting an emergency decree which amends and supplements Legea audiovizualului (the Audiovisual Act) no. 48/1992, the Romanian government has introduced an important new regulation primarily concerning private operators. The period of validity of licences was lengthened by two years. This means that, in the radio sector, licences are now valid for 7 years, while those for television broadcasters will, in future, last for 9 years. The validity of licences granted by the Audiovisual Council since 1992 has been extended accordingly.

In December 1998 the amendments to the Audiovisual Act No.48/1992 ( Lege pentru modificarea si completarea Legii audiovizualului nr.48/1992) were approved by Parliament. The amendments were essentially aimed at completing the Act in order to promote European productions. The new provisions of the Act stipulate that public and private television companies in Romania have until 1 January 2003, as far as possible, to gradually give greater priority to European audiovisual productions until they represent the majority of programmes broadcast, excluding air time devoted to news and sports programmes,...

Television coverage of a woman's suicide recently prompted the Romanian Broadcasting Council to draw attention to certain provisions in the law and insist that they must be respected. Various news programmes had shown the woman in question setting fire to herself, and then struggling desperately to put out the flames, while screaming for help. The Council considered the effects of such reports on the general public highly questionable. It specifically referred to the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (Article 7) and Recommendation No. R(97)19 of the Council of Europe's Committee...

The Act amending and supplementing Act No. 41/1994 on organisation and functioning of the Romanian Radio Corporation and the Romanian Television Corporation ( Lege pentru modificarea si completarea Legii nr. 41/1994 privind organizarea si functionarea Societatii Romane de Radiodifuziune si Societatii Romane de Televiziune) was published on 22 June 1998. The long-awaited Romanian Public Television Board was established immediately on the passing of the Act, which had been the subject of protracted discussion in Parliament. (The Romanian Public Radio Board had already been set up in September 1995)....