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In IRIS 1997-2:10 we reported on the adoption of a decree by the Spanish Government on the outline conditions for marketing digital television programmes. This decree effectively transposes Directive 95/47/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals into Spanish national law. In the interim, as part of the approval process, the Spanish Parliament has transformed the decree ( see IRIS 19972: 10) into an ordinary act - the Digital Television Act. At the same time the Media Committee decided on important changes...

On 2 February 1997 the Spanish Government issued a Decree on the outline conditions for marketing digital television programmes. The Decree came into force on publication, although it had yet to be approved by the Spanish Parliament. An important feature of the Decree is the regulation according to which a single decoder must be able to receive more than one channel. In this respect the Spanish Government considers the Decree as the transposition into domestic law of Directive 95/47/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 24 October 1995 on the application of standards for the transmission...

In IRIS 1996-5: 10 we published an overview of the State of Signatures and Ratifications of all European Conventions and other international treaties that are relevant to the audio-visual sector. In IRIS 1996-7: 5, IRIS 1996-8: 6 (September issue), IRIS 1996-9: 7 (October issue), IRIS 1996-10: 5 and in IRIS Special 1996 we updated this overview. We can now report that in the meantime, Slovakia ratified the European Convention on transfrontier television. Slovakia, which signed this Convention on 11 September 1996, ratified it on 20 January 1997. Consequently, the date of entry into force will be...

IRIS 1996-2: 10 reported on the regulatory developments in the Spanish telecommunications and cable TV sectors in the last quarter of 1995. Since then, after the approval of Act No 42/1995 of 22 December 1995 relating to Telecommunications by Cable, two new legislative instruments have been adopted to implement and complete the provisions of the Act that relate to cable: Decree No 2066/1996 of 13 of September 1996 (the Cable Regulation), implementing the provisions relating to the technical aspects and clarifying the conditions on which basis telecommunications services may be offered via cable...

The following is a brief summary of the new legislative rules that have been passed in Spain in the first period of 1996. The Intellectual Property Law, dated 11 November 1987, has been repealed by Legislative Royal Decree No. 1/1996, of 22 April 1996 (hereinafter the 'Royal Decree'). This Royal Decree is a code that adjusts, clarifies and harmonises all relevant laws concerning intellectual property in Spain. The Royal Decree fulfils the final provision of the Law of 11 October 1995 of implementing the Council Directive 93/98/CEE of 29 October 1993, on the harmonisation of the term of protection...