Spain’s approved ‘Royal Decree of Advertising’ will not be delayed or modified, after the Supreme Tribunal struck down an injunction launched by Spanish media trade union the ‘Asociación de Medios de Información’ (AMI).

On Friday, the ‘commercial disputes chamber’ of Spain’s Supreme Tribunal rejected AMI’s appeal to postpone the 1 May enforcement of the Royal Decree’s blanket ban on gambling advertising, which will be sanctioned across all traditional media formats – TV, radio and press.

Challenging the Royal Decree, AMI had argued that Spain’s traditional broadcast incumbents had been commercially penalised by a ‘discriminatory timetable’ as online competitors would be given until 1 August to comply with Spanish advertising’s new federal orders.