Romanian Senate Rejects Bill On Internet Pornography

04.27.2011 ZF English

The Romanian Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill preventing and fighting internet pornography, as the draft normative act did not garner sufficient votes for approval.

The Romanian Senate on Tuesday rejected a bill preventing and fighting internet pornography, as the draft normative act did not garner sufficient votes for approval.

Lawmakers cast 46 votes in favor and 38 votes against the bill, but 69 votes were needed to adopt the normative act.

According to the bill, websites delivering adult content must receive authorization from the Communications Ministry and access to porn sites must be password-protected. Users will pay a fee for accessing adult content sites.

The fee level and authorization criteria will be set by the ministry.

According to the bill, any individual or legal entity owning a domain name and intending to use it for pornographic material must notify the Communications Ministry within ten days and observe several conditions: porn sites must contain warnings as to their content on each access page, display the number of users and check user's age before allowing access.

The bill, which was put forward by the Government, allows the Communications Ministry to block access to websites delivering adult content if these conditions are breached.