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What it is

Rules for the Spanish government's public advertising campaigns

BOE step 7 of 7 · Passed

It is a government bill. Introduced by the Government. It was introduced on 15 April 2005. Introduced by: Gobierno.

Official title: Government bill on advertising and institutional communication.

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Source: Congreso de los Diputados, file 121/000034· updated 11 Nov

Automatic summary, not yet reviewed

  1. The law regulates the Spanish State's institutional advertising and communication campaigns and defines what counts as an advertising campaign and what counts as a communication campaign.
  2. Campaigns can only be run for public interest purposes, such as informing people of their rights, spreading new laws or announcing safety measures. They must promote equality between men and women and respect social and cultural diversity.
  3. Campaigns that highlight the government's achievements, harm other administrations' policies, discriminate or incite violence are banned. They also cannot be confused with political party symbols and must clearly identify themselves as institutional campaigns.
  4. Anyone affected can ask the Commission for Institutional Advertising and Communication to stop or correct a banned campaign. The Commission must decide within six days at most and can suspend the campaign as a precautionary measure.
  5. Each year a plan is approved with all planned campaigns, their cost and their messages, and the government sends the Cortes Generales an annual report with the campaigns run and their contractors.
  6. Campaigns are run in Spanish and in the co-official languages depending on the territory, and during an election period only very limited exceptions are allowed.

Who it affects

  • The General State Administration and State public sector entities: They run and contract the campaigns, and must meet all the requirements and bans.
  • Citizens: They can ask for the stop or correction of campaigns that break the law.
  • The Commission for Institutional Advertising and Communication: It plans, coordinates and handles complaints against campaigns.
  • The Cortes Generales (Spanish Parliament): They receive the annual report with the campaigns run and their contractors.

Words worth knowing

Campaña institucional (institutional campaign)
An activity by the State to spread a common message to many recipients, with no commercial purpose.
Lenguas cooficiales (co-official languages)
Languages that, besides Spanish, are official in some autonomous communities, such as Catalan, Galician or Basque.
Medida cautelar (precautionary measure)
A temporary decision taken while a complaint is being resolved, such as stopping a campaign for a while.
Adjudicatario (contract awardee)
The company or person assigned a public contract.

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Where it stands

How far did it get?

It took 7 of 7 steps. It reached BOE, and today it is passed.

  1. Introduced15 April 2005Someone registers the text in the Congreso.
  2. Admitted19 April 2005The Bureau of the Congreso accepts it and, for a members’ bill, the plenary decides whether to consider it.
  3. Amendments22 April 2005Groups propose changes.
  4. Committee15 June 2005A committee goes through the text in detail.
  5. Plenary28 September 2005All 350 deputies vote.
  6. Senate20 October 2005The Senate can pass it, amend it or veto it.
  7. BOE22 December 2005It is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and comes into force.
See the 10 official steps on a timeline
Apr 2005May 2005Jun 2005Jul 2005Aug 2005Sept 2005Oct 2005Nov 200511. 15 April 2005: Presentación22. 19 April 2005: Comisión Constitucional Publicación desde 19/04/2005 hasta 22/04/200533. 19 April 2005: Calificación44. 22 April 2005: Comisión Constitucional Enmiendas desde 22/04/2005 hasta 15/06/200555. 15 June 2005: Comisión Constitucional Informe desde 15/06/2005 hasta 22/09/200566. 22 September 2005: Comisión Constitucional Dictamen desde 22/09/2005 hasta 28/09/200577. 28 September 2005: Pleno Aprobación desde 28/09/2005 hasta 20/10/200588. 20 October 2005: Senado desde 20/10/2005 hasta 14/12/200599. 14 December 2005: Pleno Enmiendas o veto del Senado desde 14/12/2005 hasta 22/12/20051010. 22 December 2005: Concluido - (Aprobado con modificaciones) desde 22/12/2005 hasta 24/01/2006

Was there a plenary vote?

We have no plenary vote linked to this law in the Congreso’s data.

What happens next

What happens now?

It is law, or will be once published in the BOE. It comes into force on the date its own text sets.

The same initiative in the other chamber:

Published in the BOE: Law 29/2005, of 29 December, on Advertising and Institutional Communication.

Sources

Where does all this come from?

  • The data comes from the open files of the Congreso, the Senate and the BOE, unaltered.
  • Each deputy’s province is the one of their seat on the day of the vote.
  • We only say “passed” or “rejected” when the majority needed is certain; otherwise we say which side had more votes.

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