RO: Deputies reject draft Law to cut the audiovisual licence fee
by Eugen CojocariuThe Senate (upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament) definitively rejected on 13 June 2016 the draft Law intended to abolish the audiovisual licence fee. The Chamber of Deputies (lower chamber) had rejected the project on 2 March 2016.
According to the initiators, 14 social-democrat Members of Parliament, the licence fee collected by the Romanian Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) would have been completely cut, without replacing it with another source of revenue. The initiators considered that the existing law is unfair and discriminates the public, which is obliged to pay for a service it does not consume or like,…
