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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...

Media groups Atresmedia and Mediaset, the largest commercial state broadcasters in Spain, were fined by the national regulator (Comision Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia – CNMC), for a breach of the anti-trust rules governing TV advertising. The illegal conduct infringes Article 1 of Law 15/2007 and Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Mediaset has been fined EUR 38.9 million, while Atresmedia was fined EUR 38.2 million. They have been instructed to modify their commercial strategies within the next three months. Atresmedia and Mediaset have developed commercial...

On 2 September 2019, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (Spanish Data Protection Authority, AEPD) fined a supermarket EUR 150 000 for two infringements of the Spanish data protection legislation. On 25 April 2018, the AEPD initiated an investigation after the publication in several newspapers of images recorded by a CCTV system installed in a supermarket corresponding to events which had occurred in May 2011. The images showed the then President of the Community of Madrid supposedly putting some cosmetic products in her bag. The publication of those images was considered an infringement...

On 30 October 2019, the Junta Electoral Central (Central Electoral Commission – JEC) opened sanctioning proceedings against the Acting President of the Government for statements made during a TV programme and against the Acting Minister of Education and Government Spokesperson for statements made during a press conference. According to the JEC, although the statements made in the programme Al Rojo Vivo by the Acting President of the Government and candidate in the general elections of 10 November 2019 did not violate Article 53 of the LOREG concerning the prohibition on disseminating advertising...