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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...

The Catalan Government has passed a Decree on the promotion of films dubbed or subtitled in Catalan. This Decree implements Article 28 of the Catalan Law 1/1998, on linguistic policy ( Ley catalana de política lingüística). According to the Decree, if a cinema company wants to distribute dubbed films in Catalonia, half of its copies of successful films ( i.e., those with more than 17 copies distributed within Catalonia) must be dubbed in Catalan. Also the film companies must per year distribute 25% of their dubbed and subtitled film copies in Catalan. The première of a film dubbed in Catalan must...

The Plenary Meeting of the recently founded Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events ( Consejo para las emisiones y retransmisiones deportivas) (see Iris 1998-7:11) has published the Code of Listed Sport Events for the season 1998/1999. These events shall not be broadcast on pay-TV. The sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, track & field, handball, motorcycle racing and tennis. The Code indicates the number of events in each of these sports that must be broadcasted in free-access TV. The most controversial aspect is the broadcasting of the Spanish football league. It has been...

On 3 July 1997 Spain adopted a law relating to the broadcasting of sport events ( See IRIS 1997-8: 12). Article 4.1 of this law establishes that a Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events ( Consejo para las emisiones y retransmisiones deportivas) will be created, and that this Committee will be entrusted with deciding which events are to be considered of national interest (in the light of the revised Television Without Frontiers Directive). This Committee has been set up by a Decree of 22 May 1998. According to this Decree, the main tasks of the Committee are (1) to list the events of national...