The cameramen as well as the reporters and photo-reporters will be able to enter the assembly hall of Parliament to take their own pictures and will not have to sit in the special hall intended for the media. However, for this to happen, each TV channel will have to write an application at the start of the parliamentary session to announce the intention to have the own cameraman at the plenary sittings. Such a decision was reached by the members of the working group for ensuring the press’ access to the Parliament’s assembly hall, IPN reports.

Deputy Speaker Liliana Palihovici said there are several proposals submitted by civil society that cannot be fulfilled. For example, Parliament now does not broadcast the sittings online, but this will be done when the new website is launched.

It was decided that the cameramen will have access to the area intended for visitors only during the sittings of major interest. Invitees will not be accepted at such sittings so as to offer the places intended for these to the press.

Civil society suggested that each TV channel that wants to have a cameraman at the Parliament’s sittings should file an application to have the operator accredited at the start of the session. Given that the current session is in full swing, after the regulations proposed by the working group are approved, the media outlets will have two weeks to obtain accreditation for their cameramen. An exception will be made for international media outlets so that these can register anytime and have access to the sittings of major interest.

The cameramen are not allowed to film documents from the MPs’ tables and their correspondence. This provision is aimed at avoiding the dissemination of secret documents.

Liliana Palihovici will present the proposals formulated by civil society in the meeting of the Parliament’s Standing Bureau.