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The idea to publish audio recordings of the Board’s public meetings was suggested by Larisa Calugaru, the SB member. Currently, SB meetings are held online, and audio recordings are made by the TRM team. Subsequently, the Board’s secretariat publishes the approved decisions and the minutes of the members’ meetings.
Calugaru explained her initiative by the need to ensure transparency in the decision-making process. “Audio recordings from our meetings should be published together with the minutes, using a link, or on the website, so that anyone could listen to them; they should not be edited, cut, or polished in any way, they should be published as they are. Because we do not have access to these audio recordings,” Larisa Calugaru said.
Her colleagues unanimously supported her idea. Violeta Cojocaru, President of the Board, specified that the SB members would have to examine the subject in more detail, in order to amend the Regulations and specify some technical issues. “Currently, we have no legal basis for today’s meeting,” Violeta Cojocaru mentioned.
Previously, Larisa Calugaru requested to postpone the SB meeting held online until it could be broadcast live, yet her suggestion was rejected.
Recently, several non-governmental media organizations sent a public appeal to the new government “to ensure true transparency of the public institutions’ activity and unrestricted access to information of public interest for journalists and media institutions.” The suggestions listed by the NGOs include “developing and approving amendments to the Code of Audiovisual Media Services to exclude political subordination and make the activity of the Broadcasting Council and the Supervisory Board of the Public Institution, Teleradio-Moldova Company more efficient.”
