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On 29 December 2005, the Catalan Parliament approved the Act on Audiovisual Communication in Catalonia (Act 22/2005). This legal text establishes Catalonia's own audiovisual system, organizedat two levels: a regional level (including public sector and commercial broadcasters), and a local level, organized in counties. The Act aims to reach a politically independent and financially sound public sector ensuring public service, and a competitive, diverse and plural private sector. The Act, which unifies and harmonizes the existing legal provisions relating to audio-visual law in Catalonia, has 140...

The Spanish Intersectoral Commission against offences of intellectual property rights, which was called into life last October by Royal Decree1228/2005 (see IRIS 2005-10: 12),was definitively set upon 23 November. The ceremony marking its constitution took place at the National Library and was presided by the Spanish Minister of Culture. The creation of this Commission is one of the measures announced by the Spanish Government's Integral Plan against Piracy (see IRIS 2005-6: 12), and its objective, among others, is theoperational coordination between the Public Administrations and the different...

On 13 October 2005 the Royal Decree 1228/2005 setting up the Intersectorial Commission on the infringement of Intellectual Property Rights entered into force. The creation of this Commission is one of the measures included in the Integral Plan of the Spanish Government against Piracy, which was adopted on 26 April 2005 (see IRIS 2005-6: 12). The Commission's main objective is to coordinate operations among the public administration, organisations defending Intellectual Property Rights and organisations defending social interests, who together will carry out studies and activities aimed at implementing...

The Government has recently presented a new Bill on public service Radio and TV to Parliament. This Bill has been inspired by the report prepared by the Council for the Reform of State-owned Media, created by the Government in April 2004, and which delivered its final report in February 2005. The Bill defines public broadcasting service at a national level. This service would be provided by the ` Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española ' (Spanish radio and television corporation - Corporación RTVE), a public entity which would manage two companies, ` Sociedad Mercantil Estatal Televisión Española...

At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of 29 July 2005, the Spanish Government approved a package of measures that redefines the landscape of Terrestrial TV in Spain, and, in particular, of Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV). Spain was one of the first countries in Europe to launch DTTV (1999), but the commercial failure of Quiero TV (the pay-TV company that managed three and-a-half of the five available national DTTV multiplexes) paralyzed this process. Now the Government has redistributed the available spectrum, by means of a new Decree on the National Technical Plan on DTTV, which abrogates the...