The Senate adopted on Monday, as the first notified legislative body, the legislative initiative to amend the Law on the Organization and Functioning of the National News Agency AGERPRES, authorizing the institution to establish, manage and finance a press museum.
The vote was 99 to 2 and 18 abstentions.
The legislative proposal initiated by a group of Liberal senators provides that AGERPRES is competent for establishing, managing and financing a museum having as main purpose the preservation, archiving, research and promotion of the national journalistic heritage. The museum's mission will be "to document and showcase the evolution of the Romanian press from the first written publications to the digital age, including newspapers, magazines, technical equipment, archival documents, audio-video recordings, as well as other materials of historical and cultural interest."
The museum could function as an autonomous entity within AGERPRES, with personnel and a budget of its own, or as a public institution of national interest under the authority of AGERPRES, with its own legal personality.
The legislative proposal will next be debated by the Chamber of Deputies, the decision-making body on this matter.
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