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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...

Article 20.3 of the Spanish Constitution stipulates that the law shall regulate the organisation and parliamentary oversight of media dependent on the State or any public entity, and shall - respecting the pluralism of society and the different languages of Spain - guarantee access to such media by significant social and political groups. To that end, Act 17/2006 of 5 June on State-owned Radio and Television reflected the requirements of neutrality, transparency and quality, and created the state-owned commercial company RTVE Corporation (see IRIS 2006-6/19). Its administration and government bodies...