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On 7 February 2000 the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) rejected an appeal by the local Government of Viladecans against the Real Decreto 2169/1998, de 9 de octubre, por el que se aprueba el Plan Técnico Nacional de la Televisión Digital Terrenal (Decree 2169/1998, on the National Technical Plan on Digital Terrestrial TV) (see IRIS 1998-10: 11). According to the applicant, the Decree does not regulate the provision of Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV) services by local governments nor does it reserve part of the spectrum to allow the migration of the existing local TV managed by local authorities...

The Parliament of Castilla-La Mancha (one of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous Communities) has recently approved an act on the creation of a regional public broadcaster. The creation of this public regional broadcaster has been made in accordance with State Act 43/1983 (the so called Third TV Channel Act). This act states that regional public TV services must be provided by a company whose capital shall be fully owned by the regional Government. The main bodies of the public regional broadcasters shall be the Board and the Director. Both of them are placed under the control of the regional legislative...

The Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT), is an independent regulatory body whose main duty is to safeguard the existence of free competition in the telecommunications and audio-visual and interactive services markets. The CMT also enforces the Spanish Law 17/1997, which incorporates into Spanish Law EC Directive 95/47, on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals. The Board of the CMT has recently adopted several Decisions related to the audio-visual sector: - In May 2000, the CMT adopted a Decision allowing Quiero TV,...

The Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia has passed a new Law on the Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) in April 2000. The CAC is a specialized regulatory authority, with responsibilities in the audio-visual sector in Catalonia. The new Law changes the rules on the appointment of the members of the CAC Council, and it also establishes that the CAC will now have new responsibilities (e.g., sanctioning powers, including the power to impose sanctions for violations of the Spanish legislation implementing the "Television Without Frontiers" Directive by those broadcasters under...

The Ministerio de Fomento (Ministry of Development) has approved a new Regulation that implements Part V ("The Public Radio Domain") of the 1998 General Telecommunications Act. The Regulation provides a detailed list of conditions for management of the public spectrum domain and of the procedures for awarding the right to use the public domain. The Regulation also allows for the liberalisation of the broadcasting carrier services, which until 3 April 2000 could only be provided by the public enterprise Ente Público de la Red Técnica Española de Televisión - either directly or through the company...