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The Spanish Government has recently presented a Bill in order to implement the revised "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The Bill proposes to amend the Spanish Law 25/1994, which implemented the original "Television without Frontiers" Directive. The Bill introduces some important amendments concerning inter alia: the scope of application of the provisions of the law (it would apply to terrestrial, satellite and cable TV, and to all public and private broadcasters); the criteria used to determine in which country a broadcaster is established; the new rules on advertising (especially during...

The "Television without Frontiers" Directive was only transposed into Spanish national law in 1994 by the Ley 25/1994 of 12 July 1994, nearly three years after the deadline (3 October 1991). Since then, the Ministerio de Fomento announced twice its intention of sanctioning the television beoadcasters. The first time was on 5 November 1997, in relation to the advertising of alcoholic beverages, although the proceedings were not in based on the Directive or on the Spanish Law implementing the Directive, but on the general Spanish Law on Advertising (No 34/1988, of 11 November 1988) and more precisely...

It seemed that the controversy as regards the Spanish law on digital television had come to an end after the amendments introduced by a Real Decreto-Ley passed last September by the Government in order to comply with the demands of the European Commission (see IRIS 1997-9: 9). But the PSOE, the Spanish Socialist Party, which had already raised the issue of the constitutionality both of the first Real Decreto-Ley on the matter passed in January 1997 (see IRIS 1997-2: 10) and of the subsequent Law of May 1997 (see IRIS 1997-5: 12), as well as of the Law on the broadcasting of events of major public...

On 28 November 1997 Latvia signed the European Convention on Transfrontier Television. When this issue closed, Spain was expected to deposit its instrument of ratification on 19 February 1998. Article 29, paragraph 4 of the Convention stipulates that it shall enter into force in the country concerned on the first day of the month following expiry of a period of three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval. The Convention should therefore come into force in Spain on 1 June 1998.

After the adoption of the Private TV Law in 1988, the Spanish Government, then the Socialist party (PSOE), opened a procedure to grant the three licences provided for. Article 19, par 3. of the Act stipulates that no natural or legal person can own, directly or indirectly more than 25% of the capital of a licensee company, so several joint ventures were created to bid for the licences. Finally, four media ventures competed for the three licences: Antena Tres TV (Godó Group, Prensa Española); Gestevisión-Tele Cinco (Berlusconi, ONCE); Canal Plus (Canal Plus France, PRISA Group), and Univisión (Zeta...