Romania: : Intended modifications of the public audiovisual services law

• Autores: Eugen Cojocariu
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 30-31
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 15 April 2014, the Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) approved the draft law on the approval of the Government Emergency Decree no. 110/2013 for the completion of the Law no. 41/1994 on the organization and operation of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation and of the Romanian Television Corporation. The Emergency Decree was meant to allow the Parliament to appoint easily an interim Director General of the public broadcasters in case that the plenum of the Parliament does not succeed in reaching the legal quorum. On the other hand, the Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber) on 1 April 2014 tacitly adopted a draft law for the modification of Art. 40 of the Law no. 41/1994. The initiators want to restrict the payment of the licence fee for the public audiovisual broadcasters to only those who have radio and TV sets and who opt for the programmes of the public services (see IRIS 2003-4/24, IRIS 2003-8/25, IRIS 2013-5/37, and IRIS 2014-1/38).