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On 11 February 2000 a Co-Production Agreement has been signed between Germany and Spain. It entered into force on 13 December 2000, replacing the preceding agreement of 3 May 1956. Financial contribution of a co-producer shall be at least 20%. Multilateral co-productions are possible; here the minority participation must not be less than 10% and the majority participation must not exceed 70% of the total production cost. As an exception, a mere financial participation in a co-production can be approved. In such cases, the level of financial participation must be between 20 and 25%. For further...

On 1 October 2004 Act 15/2003 of 25 November 2003 amending the Criminal Code entered into force. It introduces reinforced measures (with increased fines and terms of imprisonment) to fight against piracy offences, which also concern unauthorised file-sharing activities. Since in Spain the sharing of music files is very popular (it is estimated that 43% of the illegal copying through P2P systems in Europe is done from Spain), different sectors of the Internet community have voiced their opposition to the amendments. The main purpose of the new Criminal Code is to fight against: - Big organisations...

The Royal Decree 1652/2004 of 9 July sets out a Regulation that provides for the mandatory investment by television programmers in the pre-financing of European and Spanish cinematographic and television films. This obligation was already included in Law 22/1999 (which amended Law 25/1994 that incorporated into Spanish law the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive ­ see IRIS 1999-7: 10 and also IRIS 2001-8: 13), but was difficult to apply in practice. The newly-approved regulation, which is applicable to television operators that include in their programming feature films of current production,...

In March 2004, there was a general election in Spain, which was won by the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (the Socialist Party ­ PSOE), which was previously the main opposition party. The new Government has re-structured the Ministries. The Ministry that was in charge of the implementation, at national level, of most of the provisions related to the audiovisual sector, was the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Ministry for Science and Technology), which acted mainly through its Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información (State Department for Telecommunications...

By approving a new Decree on the National Technical Plan for local terrestrial TV, the Spanish Government has taken a new step in its attempt to regularize the situation of the local terrestrial TV market. Local terrestrial TV was not regulated in Spain until 1995, when the Parliament approved the Act 41/1995, on Local Terrestrial TV. This Act established that local terrestrial TV is a public service that could be provided by up to two operators in each municipality. The concessions for the provision of this service were to be awarded by the Autonomous Communities, once the Spanish Government...