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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)....

The Rumanian Government's emergency Decree No. 67/1997 relating to the setting up, organisation and operation of the National Film Board and the constitution of the National Film Fund provides the general framework for the regulation and organisation of the financing and development of Rumanian film. The National Film Board (NFB) is a specialist, government-run body that replaces the old National Film Centre. The NFB organises film in Rumania and manages the financial resources granted to it by the Government. The responsibilities of the NFB, as provided for in Article 6, are mainly as follows...

In April 1997, the Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA) adopted a number of important decisions concerning the audio-visual sector. Decision No 36/1997 establishes the obligation for holders of broadcasting licences granted by the National Audiovisual Council to inform the Council within 10 days of its occurrence of any change of a technical nature or concerning the company's legal status, the structure of its company capital, its programme schedules, address, telephone or fax number, etc. The 10-day period also applies when a licence-holder ceases to meet the conditions for granting the...

By decision no.12/1997 of the Director General of the Romanian Copyright Office, a Commission for negotiating copyright dues and neighbouring rights for the retransmission by cable of musical, literary and audio-visual works, the work of performing artists, and sound recordings has been set up. The legal foundation for the decision is contained in the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act no.8/1996 (see IRIS 1996-8 : 11). The Commission comprises representatives of the companies for the collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights, representing the interests of authors and performing...