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On 29 November 2017, the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) adopted a Report on pluralism in current affairs debates programmes. It is the first report from the Catalan authority which analyses the level of current affairs debates programmes broadcast in Catalonia, and it is considered as a methodological model for possible systematisation and inclusion in the global analysis of pluralism carried out by the Council in their monthly reports. The 100-page report responds to Motion 63/XI of the Parliament of Catalonia, approved unanimously by all parliamentary groups, which urged the CAC to analyse...

On 7 December 2016, the European Commission decided to refer Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania and Spain to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for their alleged failure to notify the complete transposition of the Collective Rights Management Directive (Directive 2014/26/EU) into their national laws (see IRIS 2014-4/4). The Directive aims to coordinate national rules concerning access to the online music sector by enhancing the workings of collective management organisations and by increasing transparency. The deadline for its transposition into national law was 10 April 2016. According...

On 20 December 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered three judgments concerning measures implemented by Spain for the deployment of digital terrestrial television (“DTT”) in remote and less urbanised areas of Spain. All three judgments concerned a 2013 European Commission decision which found that the Spanish system of granting aid to the operators of the terrestrial television platform for the deployment, maintenance and operation of DTT in remote and less urbanised areas was incompatible with EU state aid rules (see IRIS 2013-7/5). The Commission found that the measure...

On 13 September 2017, the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) published its Report analysing the news coverage of the attacks that took place in Barcelona and Cambrils on 17 and 18 August 2017 on seven television channels (TV3, 3/24, 8tv, La1, Canal 24H, Antena 3 TV and Telecinco), and three radio stations (Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Informació and RAC1). In addition, the 152-page Report also looks at audiovisual content about the attacks found on the internet, specifically on video-sharing platforms. All of the channels analysed first reported on the Barcelona attack between 5.09 p.m. (3/24) and...

Further to the intervention of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Catalan Institution) by the Spanish central government, Carles Puigdemont was dismissed as president of the Generalitat. TV3, the Catalan public broadcaster, independent from the Generalitat, continued to refer to him as "president", and using the expressions "Government in exile" and "exiled ministers" to refer to the ex-president Carles Puigdemont and the four Catalan ex-ministers. The provincial electoral board of Barcelona has ruled that the use of these terms by TV3 infringes the principle of information neutrality before...