Spain

[ES] New Code of Listed Sports Events

IRIS 2000-10:1/7

Alberto Pérez Gómez

Entidad publica empresarial RED.ES

On 31 July 2000, the Plenary Meeting of the Consejo para las Emisiones y Retransmisiones Deportivas (Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events) approved the Code of Listed Sports Events for the 2000/2001 season. Sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, handball, motorcycle racing, track & field events and tennis. The Code indicates which events in each of these sports must be broadcast on free-to-air TV (provided a free-to-air broadcaster is interested in doing so). In addition, it ought to be noted that Art. 5 of Law 21/1997 states that a match from every league or cup competition game day, for those sports in which such competition systems apply, must be broadcast live, free and throughout the entire national territory. This Code of Listed Sport Events, as well as the Codes passed by the Committee since its creation in 1998, has not yet been notified to the European Commission.