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The Kingdom of Spain and the Netherlands reached an agreement on 27 February 1978 concerning cultural and scientific co-operation. The aim of the agreement, which came into force on 6 March 1979, is to promote joint co-operation on education, science and culture. Article 13 provides that the contracting countries must foster direct co-operation in the areas of radio, television and the press. According to Article 14, this also applies in particular to cinematographic co-productions and the exchange of artistic, documentary and scientific films and other audiovisual media productions that will...

In Spain cable is not regulated. Therefore many private cable networks exist which are being used by their owners to distribute their own video compilations of different television programmes. This practice has lead to a chaotic situation and therefore, the Spanish administration decided to subject cable networks to a licensing system. Cable operators argued that this policy was in breach of their freedom of expression and continued their activities without a licence. This resulted in the sanctioning of a cable operator who was active in different local communities, and in the seizure of his equipment....