In 2025, the Audiovisual Council (CA) imposed a total of 323 sanctions for violations of audiovisual legislation, including 215 fines totaling over 3.4 million lei, according to The authority’s annual activity report. The figures refer to sanctions imposed on both providers and distributors of audiovisual media services.
According to the document, the CA imposed 272 sanctions in the field of audiovisual media services control. Of these, 87 were public warnings, 180 were fines, and five were advertising suspensions.
At the same time, the institution issued two public notices of compliance with the law. The first was addressed to four television media services and concerns the process of developing editorial policies for the next election. The second notice provides for a three-month deadline for three TV media services, following their failure to comply with the minimum quota of 10% of European audiovisual works created by independent producers in the Republic of Moldova.
In the election campaign for the parliamentary elections of September 28, 2025, the national audiovisual authority announced that it had, for the first time, carried out comprehensive monitoring of all five types of audiovisual programs of an electoral nature, as provided for in the Electoral Code: news and current affairs programs, electoral information programs, electoral promotion programs, electoral debates, and electoral advertising programs. The monitoring covered 22 TV media services that declared that they were covering the whole election.
During the campaign, the CA reports that it imposed fines totaling over 250,000 lei. During the campaign, the authority identified and sanctioned cases of discriminatory speech based on criteria such as sexual orientation, health status, age, or migrant status. The document also points to an “alarming case” at the public broadcaster in Gagauzia, which is accused of political partisanship, promoting disinformation narratives, electoral self-promotion, and other violations.
For the first time, the CA also conducted a comparative analysis for the years 2024–2025 on the production of local audiovisual programs by television stations. The institution reports that more than half of the active audiovisual media services did not comply with several legal requirements regarding local programs. Among the irregularities found are failure to comply with the minimum quota of 50% of local programs in first broadcast, the quota of 80% of local programs in Romanian, and the quota of 75% during peak viewing hours. The CA also mentions deviations from the requirements regarding the average daily duration of local programs.