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In September 1999, the Government approved a Decree-Law regulating electronic signatures (see IRIS 1999-10: 4). Now the Government has passed a Ministerial Order with some implementation measures needed for the effective application of the Decree-Law. This Ministerial Order approves the Regulation on the accreditation of certification-service providers and on the certification of certain "electronic-signature products" (for definition see Article 2 (13.) of Directive 1999/93/EC concerning electronic signatures). According to this Regulation, the authority that will have the power to provide the...

In December 1999, the Spanish authorities approved several provisions that partially amend some existing norms relating to Media Law. - Act 52/1999, which amends Act 16/1989, on the Defence of Competition, also amends Act 12/1997, on the liberalization of telecommunications, which creates the CMT (Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Telecommunications Market Commission). The main duty of the CMT is to ensure free competition in the telecommunications and audiovisual and interactive services markets. Act 52/1999 clarifies the rules regulating the relationship between the CMT and the...

The Spanish Parliament has approved a new Act dealing with data protection. This new Act abrogates and supersedes the Ley Orgánica 5/1992, de Tratamiento Automatizado de datos de carácter personal (Organic Act 5/1992, on the regulation of the automatic processing of personal data). The new Act has been passed in order to incorporate into Spanish Law the EC Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. According to Art. 32 of this Directive,...

In October 1999, an international forum was held in Madrid on the issue of protection for audiovisual performances. The Forum was organised by Artistas Intérpretes Sociedad de Gestión (AISGE), a Spanish intellectual property rights management association, in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Since December 1996, WIPO has been making efforts to bring about an international consensus regarding the protection of artistic performances fixed on audiovisual media. This work is currently being carried out by the WIPO...

The Parliament of Galicia (one of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous Communities) has recently approved an Audiovisual Law. This Law is mainly concerned with the promotion of the Galician film industry and the Galician language in audio-visual works. The Law also establishes a series of principles that will regulate those activities related to the audio-visual sector, and it provides, inter alia, that the Galician authorities may provide ratings for films, or approve regulations regarding audio-visual content broadcast by regional and local operators. In addition, these authorities will control the...