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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...

According to article 1.5 of the Spanish Civil Code, International Treaties cannot be directly applied in Spain until they have been published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE - Spanish Official Journal). On 22 April, the Spanish Instrument of Ratification of the 1989 European Convention on Transfrontier Television, including the full text of the Convention, was published finally in the BOE. The aim of the Convention is to facilitate transfrontier transmission and retransmission of television programme services among the Members States of the Council of Europe that are signatories of the Convention....

A new Telecommunications law has been passed recently in Spain, replacing the 1987 Ley de Ordenación de las Telecomunicaciones (LOT). As expected, it deals only with telecommunication matters, but it nevertheless affects broadcasting to some degree. The LOT defines telecommunications as general interest services, so they are no longer considered to be a public service: only national defence and civil protection services; universal and compulsory telecommunications services (and cable and terrestrial TV) remain within this category. The LOT also deals with competition in this sector; the granting...