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In December 2000, the Government approved the Ley de Medidas fiscales, administrativas y del orden social 14/2000 (Act on Taxation, Administrative Provisions and Social Affairs), which introduces slight amendments to several provisions relating to Communications Law. An Act on taxation, administrative provisions and social affairs (hereinafter referred to as the "Special Measures Act") is approved each year, together with the Budget Act. The main object of the Special Measures Act is to introduce amendments to existing provisions, thus acting as a "container" of amendments. For example, this year's...

Spain is one of the few countries within the European Union and the Council of Europe in which the main authority for the audio-visual sector is not an independent regulatory body. There is a regulatory authority in Catalonia (Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya) and, at national level, there is an independent authority, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission), which has some powers concerning the audio-visual sector. However, at national level the authority that has power to enforce most of the provisions related to Spanish media Law is the Ministerio...

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...