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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...

The Spanish Parliament has approved a new Act on the promotion of digital terrestrial TV, which also includes some provisions related to cable TV and media concentration. This new Act partially amends some previous Acts: - Act 31/1987, on the Regulation of Telecommunications: The new Act establishes the sanction that must be imposed upon broadcasters that provide TV or radio services without having been granted a concession prior to broadcasting (art. 25 of the Act 31/1987). The new Act also amends the ownership limits in the radio sector (Sixth Additional Provision of the Act 31/1987): a natural...

On 24 June 2005, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) adopted four new reports as part of its ongoing monitoring process of the laws, policies and practices to combat racism in the Member States of the Council of Europe (for commentary on earlier reports, see IRIS 2005-7: 3). The country reports, which examine the situation in Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Spain, were adopted in the context of ECRI’s third monitoring cycle. Each report contains specific recommendations concerning the media. In three of the reports, ECRI expresses its concern that instances of incitement...

On 26 April 2005, the Spanish government published in the Official Journal (BOE) the Order approving an Integral Plan for the decrease and the elimination of Intellectual Property damaging activities. This plan is an ambitious project which involves 11 Ministries, as well as the Autonomous and Local Administrations. The Plan has two main objectives: to establish punitive measures to stop the offences against intellectual property and to raise awareness in Spanish society about the damaging consequences that piracy causes nowadays to culture and the different sectors involved. To achieve this objective...