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The National Audiovisual Council (NAC) has increased the duration of compulsory broadcasting of local programmes for its affiliated broadcasting stations. The NAC's latest decision amends the conditions and procedure for broadcasting audio-visual programmes by its affiliated broadcasting stations. Article 1 of the decision amends a previous decision by the NAC and provides in its first paragraph that the affiliation contract shall not become valid until the station's programme schedule has been authorised. The second paragraph of Article 1 extends the duration of broadcasts of local programmes...

The Romanian Law on audio-visual of 20 May 1992 (No 48/1992) gives authority to the National Audio-visual Council (NAC), to formulate binding rules that implement certain provisions of the Act, for example, in the field of advertising. On 30 January 1997, the NAC issued a Decision concerning measures for the protection of mionors. This Decision prohibits televised broadcasting of programmes which may affect the physical, moral or mental development of minors due to their vicious or extremely violent nature (Art. 1). The same decision restricts the broadcasting of erotic, pornographic or extremely...

Since September 1995, the National Audiovisual Council (NAC) has adopted a three-prong approach, in line with the recent economic and political developments within the audio-visual sector.Firstly, in view of the local elections of June 1996 and the general elections of November 1996, the NAC made the final additions to existing legislation so as to provide better guarantees for the application of the broad principles laid down by the constitution and the law (equal broadcasting time, regulation of opinion polls, etc.) with regard to broadcasting of electoral campaigns. Romanian and foreign observers...

Tuesday 26 March 1996 saw the promulgation of the law on copyright and neighbouring rights. The law first of all sets out the subject, the object, the content, the duration of the copyright, the limits and the conditions for the transfer of the rights and then goes on to lay down the fields of application : computer programmes, literary works, artistic and patrimonial works and audio-visual programmes. Special provisions were made for the last-mentioned, in chapter 5 of the law, on "television and broadcasting corporations". It is also interesting to note that the law makes ample provision for...

In the past, Europe Agreements were concluded establishing an association between the European Communities, of the one part, and Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic respectively, of the other part ( see: IRIS 1995-2: 4). On 4 December 1995, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission approved Additional Protocols to the Europe Agreements with each of these countries, signed during the summer of 1995. The Additional Protocol opens up the possibility to the associated countries of participating in a number of Community framework programmes, specific programmes,...