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At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of 20 May 2010, the Spanish Government approved a new Decree that regulates high definition digital terrestrial television (HD/DTT). The Decree was published in the official journal on 2 June as Royal Decree 691/2010. It develops the technical specifications for HD/DTT, a service recently regulated when the Parliament approved the General Law of Audiovisual Communications (see IRIS 2010-4: 1/21), and establishes the conditions to broadcast in HD/DTT. As regards the former, HD/DTT services will follow the ETSI EN 300 744 transmission system, use video resolution...

On 26 March 2010, in line with Royal Decree 944/2005 and international radio communication regulations (ITU-R WRC 2007), the Spanish Government approved Royal Decree 365/2010. The Decree organises the allocation of digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) multiplexes after the switch-off of analogue terrestrial television. Two phases have been established in order to free the frequency band 790-862 MHz from DTTV services by 1 January 2015. According to Royal Decree 944/2005, each national commercial broadcaster will be allocated a multiplex after switch-off. The public service corporation, CRTVE, will be...

Digital switchover was achieved as planned in Spain in April 2010. The migration, which took place in three phases beginning in 2008, was progressively implemented throughout the 73 technical areas into which the country was “divided” by the National Technical Plan on DTTV (see IRIS 2008-9: 9/11). On 30 March, 84 of the 90 technical projects of the implementation plan were definitively switched off, while the whole process was completed before the official deadline of 3 April. As of March 2010 and according to Impulsa TDT - the association created by broadcasters to promote the adoption of DTT...

The rights to honour, privacy and self-image are established in the Spanish Constitution (Arts. 18 para. 1, 20 para. 4). They are considered to be fundamental rights and a limit to freedom of speech or expression, which is also protected as a fundamental right according to the Spanish Constitution. Honour, privacy and image rights are regulated in detail by the Spanish Act on Civil Protection of Right to Honour, Privacy and Self-Image. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, these rights cannot be considered to be absolutely unlimited, as was stated by the Supreme Court in a recent decision on this...

The Spanish Ministry of Culture approved, on 19 October 2009, an Order Approving Economic Aids to Cinematographic and Audiovisual Companies. Spain notified the European Commission of this Order on 29 October 2009. Before the consultation period ended, the Commission received a claim by “Filmmakers against the Order”, a group of 205 directors, technicians and film critics. The Commission, on 27 January 2010, finally approved the new System of Economic Aids to the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Activity in Spain, as it considered the Order to be compatible with the Treaty on the Functioning of the...