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In April 2001, the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Madrid decided to pass a new Act on Audiovisual Content and Additional Services. This Act implements some provisions of the national Act 25/1994 (as amended by Act 22/1999), which incorporates the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive into Spanish Law. The new Madrid Act deals expressly with the protection of minors and with the right of TV users to receive accurate information on the programme planning of TV channels, as recognised by Article 18 of Act 25/1994. It ought to be pointed out that this new Madrid Act does not cover some...

On 30 April 2001, the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) rejected an appeal by the broadcaster Sogecable against Decree 2169/1998 on the National Technical Plan on Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV). According to the applicant, the Decree should be deemed illegal for several reasons: a) The Decree regulates analog switch-off, which is supposed to take place before 2012. The applicant said that this matter should have been regulated by an Act of Parliament. Besides, Sogecable argued that it was disproportionate to impose the abandonment of analog TV in order to introduce DTTV. b) The applicant claimed...

In February 2001, the Catalan audiovisual regulatory authority, the Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (Catalonia Audiovisual Council, CAC), issued a set of basic guidelines for TV broadcasters when covering tragic events. The guidelines are addressed to authorities, audiovisual corporations and professionals in the field of audiovisual information. The Recommendations stress that public authorities should give assistance to the media by ensuring that they are treated in a fair manner. Public authorities should also avoid overacting and seeking prominence while at the scene of an accident or...

In October 2000, the Tribunal Supremo (the Spanish Supreme Court) confirmed a resolution of the Junta Electoral Central (the Central Elections Commission) which stated that the Andalusian public broadcaster Empresa Pública de Radio y Televisión de Andalucía ("RTVA") had breached the rules on fair coverage of electoral campaigns. In May 1999, the Board of Directors of RTVA approved its scheme of political broadcasts for the 1999 local election campaign. The RTVA decided that the free time available to the parties on television and radio during the campaign was to be allocated according to the number...

In January 2001, the Board of Directors of the Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española (the national public broadcaster - RTVE) approved a Resolution regulating advertising on Televisión Española (TVE, the national public TV broadcaster, which belongs to the RTVE group). The aim of this Resolution is to update RTVE's regulation on advertising, in order to bring it into line with the Spanish legislation in this field. The text of the Resolution almost coincides with that of the Chapter on Advertising and Sponsorship of the national Act 25/1994 (as amended by the national Act 22/1999), on the implementation...