Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 12 12 of 19 January 1999
The Romanian Parliament adopts this law + Article 1 Audiovisual Law no. 48/1992 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 104 of 25 May 1992, shall be amended and supplemented as follows: After Article 2, Article 2 ^ 1 is inserted as follows: "" Art. 2 2 ^ 1. -(1) The television stations, legal persons, shall ensure by 1 January 2003, progressively, to the extent possible and by means of European audiovisual creations, a majority percentage of the emission time, in the calculation of which will not enter the informative and sports broadcasts, games, advertising and teletext services. (2) For the purposes of this Law, European audiovisual creations shall mean the works originating in the Member States of the Council of Europe, as well as the works carried out, in whole or in majority, by producers, authors and workers who have domicile in one or more Member States of the Council of Europe. ... (3) From the European audiovisual creation broadcast at least 40% will be Romanian audiovisual creation. ... (4) The Romanian creations mean works that originate in Romania or that are made, in whole or majority, by producers, authors and workers who are domiciled in Romania. ... (5) The television stations, Romanian legal entities, will reserve, under the previous paragraphs, 10% of their broadcasting time to the creations made by producers independent of the respective broadcast stations. ... (6) Application of para. ((1) and (5) will be done gradually, on the basis of mandatory rules developed by the National Audiovisual Council. " ... + Article 2 This law shall enter into force within 90 days from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of Romania. + Article 3 Audiovisual Law no. 48/1992 , as amended, as well as with the additions made by this law, will be republished in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, giving the articles a new numbering. This law was adopted by the Senate at its meeting of 11 December 1998, in compliance with the provisions of art. 74 74 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution. p. SENATE PRESIDENT, CONSTANTIN DUMITRESCU This law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies at the meeting of December 14, 1998, in compliance with the provisions of 74 74 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution. p. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT, PAULA IVANESCU --------------
