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The Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) launched on 17 August 2010 a public consultation regarding the proposed changes of Decizia nr. 187/2006 privind Codul de reglementare a conţinutului audiovizual (Decision no. 187/2006 concerning the Regulatory Code for Audiovisual Content, Audiovisual Code). The project was placed for one month on the Council’s website (see IRIS 2006-4: 19/33, IRIS 2007-1:16/29, IRIS 2007-4: 19/30, IRIS 2008-1: 17/25 and IRIS 2008-2: 17/26). The Audiovisual Code has to be modified to be in line with the Legea Audiovizualului...

The Electronic Media Law (“Law”) came into effect on 29 December 2009 whereby, pursuant to Article 88, Paragraph 2, the Council for Electronic Media had been required to adopt new secondary legislation. Accordingly, the following Rules have been adopted: - Pursuant to Article 37, para. 6 of the Law the Rules on Detailed Criteria for Determining which Audiovisual and/or Radio Programmes are to be Considered as Own Production, in effect since 17 April 2010 (Official Gazette No. 43/10); - Pursuant to Article 40, para. 3 of the Law the Rules on Croatian Audiovisual Works, in effect since 17 April 2010...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly which is currently comprised of delegations from the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine enacted on 3 December 2009 the Model Statute О защите детей от информации, причиняющей вред их здоровью и развитию (On the Protection of Minors against Information Detrimental to their Health and Development). The Model Statute develops the ideas of the recent Russian Federation’s bill of the same name which was adopted on 24 June 2009 by the State Duma...

On 27 July 2010 the Consiliul Naţional al Audiovizualului (National Council for Electronic Media - CNA) imposed sanctions on 10 TV stations and one radio station broadcasting in Romania for having broken the Audiovisual Code rules when covering the death of a Romanian star, the singer Mădălina Manole, who committed suicide on 14 July 2010. The CNA considered the broadcasters had broken the Codul de reglementare a conţinutului audiovivzual (Regulatory Code for Audiovisual Content) rules with regard to the protection of children, human dignity and of the right to one’s own image, in news programmes...

On 13 July 2010 the Polish Government adopted the Guidelines for the Draft Act Amending the Broadcasting Act (in relation to the implementation of Directive 2007/65/EC). On the basis of these detailed Guidelines the Draft Act was prepared and sent on 30 July 2010 for intergovernmental consultations that have been already concluded. The AVMSD will be transposed into national legislation mostly by amending the Broadcasting Act. The responsible regulatory authority will be the National Broadcasting Council (NBC), which nowadays has responsibility only in respect of traditional radio and television...