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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...

In 2004, the Spanish Government has approved three Decrees authorising the Government of the Autonomous Communities of Extremadura, the Balearic Islands and Asturias to operate a regional analogue terrestrial television channel. According to this Decree and to Act 46/1983 (the "Third TV Channel Act"), only a company wholly owned by the corresponding regional public authorities may operate these channels. The Decree also stresses that the creation of this new regional public television channel has to be made in accordance with the 1998 National Technical Plan on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV),...

On 30 December 2003, the Spanish Parliament approved the Ley de Medidas fiscales, administrativas y del orden social (Act 62/2003, on Taxation, Administrative Provisions and Social Affairs), which partially amends some existing norms relating to media law. An Act on taxation, administrative provisions and social affairs (hereinafter referred to as "Special Measures Act") is approved each year, together with the Budget Act (see also IRIS 2003-2: 8 and IRIS 2000-2: 13). The main objective of the Special Measures Act is to introduce amendments in existing provisions, thus acting as a "container"...

On 3 November 2003, a new Telecommunications Act was adopted to replace Act 11/1998 on Telecommunications (see IRIS 2003-6: 12 and IRIS 1998-6: 9). The main goal of this new Act is to implement into Spanish Law the new EC Electronic Communications Framework, which was approved in April 2002 (see IRIS 2002-3: 4).