Tender to occupy 2 vacancies in Broadcasting Regulator

The media-related parliamentary committee announces a tender to occupy two vacancies of a member of the Broadcasting Coordinating Council (BCC). On October 20, 2008, the mandates of the members Valeriu Frumusachi and Vlad Turcanu expire, Info-Prim Neo reports. The candidates' files shall be lodged with the media committee till 10 October 2008, 17.00. According to the Broadcasting Code, a BCC member can become anyone with higher education and at least 5 years of experience in broadcasting, communications, law, finances, management, older than 25 and younger than the legal retirement age, speaking Romanian, and without penal antecedents. The candidates may be put up by NGOs, foundations, trade unions, employers unions, religious cults. The candidates will be selected by two parliamentary committees and then they will be set for the Parliament to confirm them. The mandate of the BCC members is 6 years. The panel is renewed in stages, and a person cannot hold two consecutive mandates. MP Anatol Taranu, a member of the media committee of the Parliament, has told Info-Prim Neo it's not likely that the selection will be objective since the Communists hold the majority in all the committees. “The Parliament does not function as a mechanism fore debates, but as a voting machine. In fact, the decisions have been already taken in the opposite building (the Presidency – e.n.),”Anatol Taranu stated. The chairman of the APEL Electronic Press Association, Alexandru Dorogan, says the renewal of the BCC panel in stages is a natural and democratic process, thus being ensured the diverse structure of the BCC. At the same time it's important that the procedures of selecting and appointing the BCC members should be correct and transparent and monitored by the civil society, Alexandru Dorogan underlines. The present BCC panel is constituted by chairman Gheorghe Gorincioi, deputy chairman Valeriu Frumusachi, and Corneliu Mihalache, Carmelia Albu, Valeriu Soltan, Ruslan Plesca, Ludmila Vasilache, Vlad Turcanu and Vitalie Tabunscic as members.