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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...

In 2006, Spain implemented in its Copyright Law the limitation for private copying as per Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. By virtue of this limitation, a natural person can make a copy of a work already divulged whenever it is for his or her exclusive private use and without direct or indirect commercial purposes. On the other hand, that directive requires a means of ensuring that rightsholders of the reproduced work receive fair compensation. The...

On 20 July 2017, the Catalan Audiovisual Council (Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya, CAC), the Department of Labour, Social Affairs and Families (Departament de Treball, Afers Socials i Famílies), and the Catalan College of Journalists (Collegi de Periodistes de Catalunya), announced the publication of a new Code on the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI) people in the audiovisual media (Recomanacions sobre el tractament de les persones lesbianes, gais, bisexuals, transgèneres i intersexuals (LGBTI) als mitjans audiovisuals). The Code constitutes a new tool...

On 4 May 2017, the CNMC published its report on the fulfilment of the investment in European works in 2015. Under the Spanish Audiovisual Communication Law, media service broadcasters and electronic communications providers broadcasting television channels are required to earmark 5% of their operating revenue for the pre-funding of European cinematographic films, and films and series made for television. The CNMC is responsible for monitoring compliance with this law. The CNMC notes that the designated providers invested a total of EUR 179.93 million in European works in 2015, which is 15.37% less...