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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...

According to CNMC, the LPF prevented Mediaset cameras from accessing football stadiums for three league days during Season 2016/17. Specifically, the LFP prohibited the cameras of the Mediaset group (Telecinco and Cuatro) from taking images of the pitch during rounds 24 (24, 25 and 26 February 2017) and 25 (28 February, 1 and 2 March 2017) of the First Division, and round 27 of the Second Division (24, 25 and 26 February 2017). CNMC determined that the LFP had violated its Decision of January 2016 on the limitation of access to stadiums. By this decision, CNMC obliged the LFP to guarantee audiovisual...

On 10 May 2017, Spain’s Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (National Authority for Markets and Competition - CNMC) decided that Telefónica must compensate some of its competitors, namely Vodafone, Telecable and Total Channel, for miscalculations in the amounts they have paid as a guaranteed minimum cost by the wholesale distribution of Canal + Liga and Canal + Partidazo football channels in the 2015/2016 season. The CNMC has also decided that Telefónica had undercharged Orange and Open Cab for the guaranteed minimum cost of the said pay-TV channels. The CNMC issued this Resolution...

TNT and 13 TV are two channels managed and controlled by Mediaset España. Its major Spanish competitor, Atresmedia, filed a claim before the Spanish Competition Authorities, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (National Commission for Markets and Competition -  CNMC), requesting a review of the conditions under which Mediaset managed the advertising of these channels, because Atresmedia considered that they altered the competitive conditions of the TV advertising market in Spain. The CNMC dismissed the review requested by Atresmedia, considering that there were no indications...

By means of the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) Agreement 15/2017of 8 February 2017, the Board of the CAC has passed a new general instruction regulating the Registry of audiovisual media services providers. This new general instruction was published in the Catalan Official Journal of 13 March 2017, and will come into force three months after its publication. The general instruction, by way of its nineteen articles, establishes the Registry as a public record of both a declarative and administrative nature which falls under the competence of the CAC. The purpose of the Registry is to have nominal...