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The Council of Professionals of Canal Sur Television and Canal Sur 2, both Andalusian public service broadcaster Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA) channels, have elaborated a code containing recommendations and guidelines on gender equality and the portrayal of sexist violence on television. These consist of a set of principles to be followed by professionals linked to the corporation and have been developed in broad consultation with experts in law, security and sociology, as well as with associations for gender equality and protection. By the end of June 2011 RTVA’s general manager, Pablo...

The Spanish Ministry of Culture has approved an Order, published in the Spanish Official Gazette on 28 June 2011, by virtue of which the procedure for the calculation of the audience attracted by a cinematographic film has been modified, directly affecting the system of calculation of economic aids extended to films based on tickets sold. Until this date, the aid based on the exploitation of a film took into account only the tickets sold in theatrical exhibition. But nowadays the theatre is not the only place in which the success of a film can be measured. The most significant changes introduced...

On 19 July 2011 the European Commission sent requests for information in the form of letters of formal notice, the first step in the process of an EU infringement procedure, to 20 EU member states. The member states in question, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, have not yet notified to the Commission measures to implement the new EU Telecoms Package, formally adopted after two years of heated negotiations at the end of 2009...

On 22 March 2011, the Spanish private copying levy received another serious judicial setback, as the National Court (Audiencia Nacional) declared the nullity of the 2008 Order which set out the fees, the devices and the equipment which are subject to payment of a fair compensation for private copying. The Court analysed the administrative Order that set the fees in 2008 and concluded that it is incomprehensible that, while the standard fixed fee for analogue devices took the form of an Order, with all the prescribed procedures that this entails, the standard set with regard to the digital levy...

The European Commission has finished the preliminary analysis of the measures implementing the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive into national law notified by 16 Member States: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Subsequently, the European Commission has sent fact-finding letters to these states inquiring about these implementing measures. The Commission is thus seeking to ensure that all provisions of the AVMS Directive have been correctly transposed into...