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What has been referred to in Spain as 'the war over football', a conflict between media corporations regarding football broadcasting rights that started in 2007 (see IRIS 2011-10:1/13), moves ahead with a new episode. On this occasion, the players are Mediapro, the company that owned those rights for many years, and the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF), the governing body of football in Spain. The Provincial Court of Madrid (Audiencia Provincial de Madrid) has sanctioned the RFEF for abuse of a dominant position. The dispute that has been taking place concerns...

On 23 January 2020, the Junta Electoral Central (Central Electoral Commission – JEC) decided that the acting president of the government, in the exercise of his responsibilities as such, had also infringed Article 153.1 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral System, through the realisation and diffusion of a TV interview by taking advantage of the public means at his disposal, in his capacity as acting president of the government. The JEC also decided that the minister acting as government spokesperson, in the exercise of her responsibilities, had infringed Article 153.1 of the Organic...

On 20 December 2019, the Spanish Supreme Court settled the longstanding legal conflict between Mediaset and the National Professional Football League (LNFP) concerning their different interpretation of the right of access to football stadiums and the broadcasting of short news summaries of the matches. In September 2015, Mediaset had denounced before the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (National Commission of Markets and Competition - CNMC) that the LNFP was violating its right to information by limiting its access to the stadiums. A few days later, the CNMC issued...

RTVE, the Spanish public service media corporation, has been fined by the regulator, the National Markets and Competition Commission (Comision Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia – CNMC), for an infringement of Spanish Audiovisual Law 7/2010 (Ley General de la Comunicación Audiovisual). The illegal conduct infringed Article 43.2, which regulates the financing of public service broadcasters and stipulates that state-owned media may not engage in any form of commercial activity except as provided for by their own legal framework. In the case of RTVE, Law 8/2009 (Ley de...

For public security reasons, the government has reserved the right to suspend, exceptionally and as a precautionary measure, the transmission of data and the connection to the Internet, as provided in the Royal Decree-Law 14/2019 of 31 October (hereinafter, the “Royal Decree-Law”). This Royal Decree-Law amends Law 9/2014 of 9 May on Telecommunications to acknowledge the government's right to take over any types of infrastructure, network, service or digital resource that may affect public security within the framework of national defence. It means that the Ministry of Economy...