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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (regulatory authority for the electronic media in Romania - CNA ) has submitted to the lower house of the Romanian Parliament a proposal to amend the current Audiovisual Act ( Legea audiovizualului Nr. 504 din 11 iulie 2002 ). One of the key changes suggested by the CNA is an increase in the penalties laid down in the current Act, which range from ROL 50 to 500 million (RON 500 to 5,000), to penalties ranging from ROL 500 million to 1 billion (RON 5,000 to 100,000). EUR 1 is currently worth RON 3.5. According to Art. 90 of Act No. 504, these fines are imposed...

In May 2006, the Dutch Media Authority published its report on the regulation of the Dutch commercial television market. In this report, the Media Authority analyses the current highly competitive commercial television market and concludes that there is no level playing field as not all competitors are judged by the same standards. The reason for this is that one of the three competitors, RTL Nederland, operates under a Luxembourg broadcasting licence and as such falls under the jurisdiction of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, whereas the others are subject to Dutch regulation. Even though both...

On 27 July 2006 the Moldovan parliament adopted the Codul Audiovizualului al Republicii Moldova , No. 260-XVI (Audiovisual Code of the Republic of Moldova). The Code replaces the earlier statutes “On Television and Radio” (of 3 October 1995) and “On Public National TV and Radio Organization Teleradio-Moldova” (of 26 July 2002) (see IRIS 2003-6: 10). The Code regulates the activities of the Coordinating Council of the Audiovisual (regulatory authority - CCA), the national public broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova and also orders the transformation of the existing local public TV and radio stations into...

At the end of a six-month EU twinning project, funded to the tune of EUR 90,000 by the European Commission with the purpose of improving the supervision of broadcasting in Latvia, representatives of the Nacionālā Radio un Televīzijas Padome (National Broadcasting Council - NRTP ) and its German partner, the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg Communications Authority - LFK ), discussed their interpretation of the legal framework with representatives of Latvian broadcasting in Riga on 22 August 2006. The interpretation guidelines concern the protection of minors,...

On 11 July 2006 the Lithuanian Parliament ( Seimas ) adopted a new version of the Act on Provision of Information to the Public, which came into force on 1 September 2006. The Act was first adopted in 1996. The new version of the Act provides for the following new elements: announcements, information society media means, information society service, information regarding pornographic content, information regarding erotic content, information regarding violent content, news broadcasts. The confidentiality of information sources was finally regulated by this Act. In Lithuania there were a lot of...