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The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (national commission for markets and competition - CNMC) was created by Act No. 3/2013, which was adopted on 4 June 2013. The commission combines functions involving the smooth running of the markets and sectors which until now have been controlled by various authorities with responsibility for the sectors of energy, the telecoms market, competition, the railways, the postal sector, airports, and the audiovisual media. These attributions have earned it the nickname of "super-regulato"r (superregulador). The Council of the CNMC is its decision-making...

The Spanish Constitutional Court (TC) has ruled on 16 December 2013, that the rights to personal image and honour of a disabled person should prevail over the right to information claimed by a television broadcaster in relation to a programme in which a disabled person was ridiculed. The programme, which was broadcast on Tele5 (Mediaset’s Spanish chain), invited a person with mental and physical disabilities, i.e. the plaintiff, to be interviewed. During the course of the interview, the plaintiff was asked personal questions of a sexual nature and was generally made fun of by the interviewer. Afterwards,...

On 19 June 2013, the European Commission concluded that a Spanish scheme to finance the digitisation and extension of the terrestrial television network in Spain was incompatible with EU state aid rules. The Spanish EUR 260 million scheme was initiated in 2005 to subsidise the transition to digital terrestrial television (DTT) in remote areas of Spain as well as to help finance the operation and maintenance of the DTT infrastructure. The subsidies were allocated exclusively to operators of terrestrial platforms. Alternative transmission platforms such as satellite, cable or the internet did not...

On 14 March 2013, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT), found that two national commercial television companies, Mediaset España Comunicación and Gestora Inversiones Audiovisual La Sexta had failed to fulfil their financial obligations in relation to their contributions to the funding of the national public service broadcaster, RTVE (Radio y Televisión Española). In accordance with Law 9/2009, CMT found that self-assessments made by the companies with regard to their financial obligations under Law 8/2009 had been wrongly calculated. Act...

On 8 January 2013, the Resolution of the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (Competition Authority - CNC) found that the agreement regarding football rights between the two major media corporations Canal+ and Mediapro (August 2012) was not in breach of Spanish competition law. The Authority reasoned that the agreement was not abusive, nor was it restrictive to smaller clubs opposed to the application of the agreement. The audiovisual rights to the Football League and the National Cup are the primary source of income for those clubs that participate in the First or the Second Division of the Football...