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According to Article 149.1.27 of the Spanish Constitution, responsibility for the regulation of the audiovisual sector is shared by the State and the Comunidades Autónomas (Autonomous Communities, the regional political entities). The State has the power to approve the basic legislation for press, radio, television and any other media, without prejudice to the powers of the Autonomous Communities to implement and enforce this basic legislation. Several Autonomous Communities have recently decided to approve provisions concerning the implementation of the basic legislation in the field of media...

The Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT), is an independent regulatory body whose main duty it is to safeguard the existence of free competition in the telecommunications and audio-visual and interactive services markets. In September 2000, the CMT presented its Annual Report, which provides an overview of the activity of the CMT in 1999, as well as an analysis of the situation of the telecommunications and audiovisual and interactive services markets.

On 28 September 2000, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT) adopted a Resolution stating that it will investigate the impact of the use of proprietary API's (Application Programming Interfaces) in the Digital Terrestrial TV market. The API's perform in the digital TV decoders a similar function to that of the operating systems in the PC's. They translate interactive TV applications written in a high-level software programming language into a low-level language the decoder can understand. If a decoder has a proprietary API embedded, it will...

On 14 September 2000, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT) rejected a submission for a permit to provide local terrestrial TV services. This submission was presented by Tele K, a local TV operator which started to provide its services before the Spanish Act 41/1995 on Local Terrestrial TV was passed, and therefore is affected by the Transitional Provision of this Law, which states that the local TV operators that were providing services before January 1995 are authorised to continue with their activity until the concessions are granted....

On 31 July 2000, the Plenary Meeting of the Consejo para las Emisiones y Retransmisiones Deportivas (Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events) approved the Code of Listed Sports Events for the 2000/2001 season. Sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, handball, motorcycle racing, track & field events and tennis. The Code indicates which events in each of these sports must be broadcast on free-to-air TV (provided a free-to-air broadcaster is interested in doing so). In addition, it ought to be noted that Art. 5 of Law 21/1997 states that a match from every league or cup competition...