The Broadcasting Code (BC) is being implemented with difficulties and defectively and its implementation has not yet brought the changes and transformations needed to institute the democratic principles of functioning of the Moldovan broadcasters. This is one of the findings of the preliminary report of the project “Monitoring of Broadcasting Code Implementation”, carried out by an expert team representing a number of media and human rights NGOs. Experts working for the project consider that the way in which the stipulations regarding the National Public Broadcaster (NPB) were implemented has not led to the acceleration of the process of building a truly national public service. Also, the defective implementation of the BC has affected the public’s rights to pluralist, true and comprehensive information by causing the disappearance of a radio station with traditions in Balti city and by reorganising ineffectively the municipal public stations “Antena C” and “Euro TV Chisinau”. According to the experts, the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC) is to blame for such a state of affairs because it not always corresponds to its fundamental status of independent public authority and guarantor of the public interest. At the same time, the Supervisory Board of the National Public Broadcaster has not fulfilled its legal obligations and failed the expectancies of the society. The experts said that the objective to democratically transform the broadcasting sector constituted one of the priorities of the present composition of the Parliament, but the authorities dealt only with the adoption of the BC (and the appointment of the members of the BCC and of the NPB’s Supervisory Board). The relevant parliamentary commission did not take account of the civil society’s signals regarding the major conflicts that occurred in the monitoring period, says the preliminary report on the activities carried out as part of the project for six months. During the first six months while the project was implemented, the monitoring team carried out case studies, monitored the radio and television news programs of the National Public Broadcaster, followed and systematised the public activities of the BCC and of the NPB’s Supervisory Board through specially accredited persons. The relevant results of the actions undertaken were made public at three news conferences and presented to national decision makers and to the international organisations accredited to Chisinau. They were also published on the site www.apel.md. Mass media and human rights nongovernmental organisations take part in the implementation of the project, which is carried out under the aegis of the Electronic Press Association APEL and with support from the Soros Moldova Foundation. Among these are the Association of Independent Lawyers, the Independent Press Association, the Association of Independent TV Reporters, the Centre Acces-Info, the Independent Journalism Centre, the Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Committee for Defence of Human and Professional Rights, the Federation of Radio and Television People, the Lawyers for Human Rights, the Union of Journalists of Moldova as well as university representatives, jurists and professionals from the broadcasting sector.