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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...

On 7 April 2011 Advocate General Yves Bot delivered his opinion on case C-281/09 of the European Commission v. Spain on the question of the legal definition of television advertising spots and other forms of advertising under the EU’s Television without Frontiers (TWF) Directive. The question arose when Spain was accused by the European Commission of failing to comply with the advertising rules of the TWF Directive. Article 18 of the Directive imposes an upper time limit of 12 minutes per clock hour to the transmission of television advertising spots and teleshopping, while other forms of advertising...