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The Audiencia Nacional (AN) confirmed the 1993 decision of the Spanish anti-trust authority (Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia - TDC) that the agreements for the televising of Spanish Football League matches between the Spanish Professional Football League ( Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional - LNFP) and some Spanish broadcasters ( TVE, Canal Plus and the Federación de Organismos de RadioTelevisión Autonómica -FORTA-, the Association of Regional Broadcasters) were unlawful. The TDC had taken this decision because the scope of the exclusivity rights was too wide: they had been signed for a...

The Governments of Andalusia and the Canary Islands are currently in dispute with the Ministry of Development ( Ministerio de Fomento) over Law 46/1983 of the 1983 Third Channel TV Act, which regulates regional TV and appears to allow each region only one TV channel. Furthermore, the Law's requirement that the regional TV channel be directly managed by the regional Government seems not to leave any room for the participation of private companies in the management of regional television channels. According to a draft Regional Public Service TV Bill, presented by the Government and currently being...

The Telecommunications Market Commission ( Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones - CMT) is an independent authority whose tasks include safeguarding competition in the telecommunication market and in the audio-visual and interactive services markets. The CMT has the power to pass resolutions in order to ensure that those markets remain open to new entrants. Making use of those powers, the CMT has recently approved a Resolution that sets certain limits to advertising campaigns made by dominant operators in the telecommunications market and in the audio-visual and interactive services markets....

The Spanish Parliament is now discussing an amendment to the provisions of the Spanish Criminal Code regulating sex-related crimes. According to the projected version of article 189 (1) (b) of the Spanish Criminal Code, the production, sale, distribution or exhibition of pornographic material in which children have participated would be punished with one to three years' imprisonment. A new article 189 (2) of the Spanish Criminal Law would punish with six months to two years' imprisonment those who are in possession of pornographic material of that kind. http://services.obs.coe.int/en/index.htm...

The Spanish Government has approved Decree nº 1736/1998, which regulates, among other things, the protection of personal data in the provision of telecommunication services. The Decree implements the related provisions included in the General Telecommunications Act 1998 ( see IRIS 1998-6 :9) and refers to relevant basic legislation on this subject contained in Law 5/1992, of 29 October 1992 on the regulation of the automated handling of personal data ( Ley Orgánica de Regulación del Tratamiento Automatizado de los Datos de Carácter Personal -LORTAD). The Decree also includes specific provisions...