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In its decision of 18 December 2008, the European Commission approved the third extension of direct state aid for the production of short films in the Autonomous Region of Madrid. As in the case of the previous decisions, this extension of the support scheme is valid for one year. The first application for approval for state aid for such productions was made by the Spanish authorities in 2005 and involves an annual budget of EUR 400,000. The legal basis for the support is, inter alia, the Law relating to grants in the Community of Madrid (Ley 2/95, de 8 marzo, de Subvenciones de la Comunidad de...

On 17 October 2008, the Spanish government approved an agreement formalising the criteria for the distribution of funding through credits amongst the Autonomous Communities, so as to finance the necessary activities for the completion of the first of the three phases established by the National Plan for the Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television. Consensus between the different levels of the administration had been reached in July in the Conferencia Sectorial de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información (Telecommunications and Information Society Conference), in the form of a collaboration...

Digital switchover was achieved in Soria (province of the Autonomous Community of Castilla-León) at 12:00 on 23 July 2008, making it the first Spanish province to complete the switch-off of the analogue terrestrial television platform. Soria’s pilot project has benefited more than 51,000 inhabitants – 54% of the population of the province – and approximately 18,500 households. The city of Soria was selected in 2005 for a DTT pilot intended to expose any implementation issues. In October 2006, it was confirmed that switch-off in the province would take place in 2008 and in September 2007 the project...

In its decision of 5 August 2008, the European Commission gave its approval until 31 December 2011 of the state aid given to Galician language film productions, with a support budget of EUR 3.1 million. The planned measures had been notified by the Spanish authorities on 23 January 2008. The objective of the scheme is to support and promote audiovisual productions that show the cultural aspects of Galicia using the Galician language, contribute towards the diversity of film in the Autonomous Community of Galicia and cannot be produced without contributions from public funds. The types of film supported...

A recent decision of the Tribunal Supremo, sala de lo penal (Spanish Supreme Court - TS), through its criminal division, on a child pornography issue (Judgement STS 19327/2008, dated 9 May of this year), created considerable debate as regards the implications for P2P use and the potential conflict with both privacy protection and telecoms secrecy and inviolability. Essentially, the TS concluded that upon connection to a P2P network, in this case Emule, an implicit consent is provided by the user, known and accepted by said user, which overrides the secrecy of communications, meaning that data provided...