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Audiovisual media service providers, in order to guarantee the necessary cultural and linguistic diversity, and its reflection in audiovisual productions, must comply with the quotas established in the Law 7/2010 of 31 March 2010 on General Audiovisual Communication.The quotas are 5% of profits from the previous year for providers and operators of services of a private nature, and 6% for those of a public nature. Every year, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (National Markets and Competition Commission, CNMC)  analyses the compliance of audiovisual media service...

On 2 November 2021, the Council of Ministers adopted a Royal Decree-Law transposing into Spanish law Directive (EU) 2019/789 laying down rules on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television and radio programmes, and Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive).   The Royal Decree-Law recognises a new related right for press publishers and authors. This is a right in its own right, held by publishers of press publications...

On 19 October 2021, the Spanish regulator Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) approved three reports in which it analysed the conditions proposed by the National Professional Football League (LNFP) for marketing the broadcasting rights of the Liga championship for the coming seasons in national territory and in international markets. These reports are issued pursuant to Article 4 of the Royal Decree-Law 5/2015 which regulates the conditions for joint marketing of rights to exploit audiovisual content of professional football competitions. In its report on the exploitation...

The independent state body responsible for ensuring the proper functioning of the markets in Spain, the CNMC (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia), has published a report on the obligation to finance European works in 2019. The dossier reveals a small decrease in investment, compared to the previous year's data, especially in relation to series in the different official languages of the country. The obligation of advance funding, to which audiovisual service providers established in Spain are subject to, is set out in the Ley 7/2010, de 31 de marzo, General de la Comunicación...

The Plenary session of the regulatory authority, Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (Catalan Audiovisual Council — CAC), held on 8 September, approved Agreement 73/2021 on the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals' (Catalan Media Corporation — CCMA) fulfilment of the public service missions assigned by Ley 22/2005, de 29 de diciembre, de la comunicación audiovisual de Cataluña (Law 22/2005, of 29 December, on audiovisual communication in Catalonia — LCA). The CAC report analyses the content broadcast and disseminated by the CCMA during...