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Grupo TRA.BU.COM. (Transparency, Good Governance and Communication), headed by Doctor María Pilar Cousido González, has, for the last three years, carried out a scientific, theoretical and practical analysis into the levels of transparency currently present in the Spanish audiovisual sector and the Brazilian and Mexican audiovisual sectors; the influence and extent of propagandistic audiovisual media require that actors operating in the sector are familiar with and observe the corresponding legal obligations, as well as the consequences arising from failure to comply with said obligations governing transparency and the right of access to public information and documentation, with a view to ensuring that the actors in question do away with their most opaque practices.
The collective work (publication) on Transparencia en el Sector Audiovisual. Comentarios a la Normativa Española y Comunitaria [Transparency in the Audiovisual Sector. Comments on Spanish and Community Law] (TRA.BU.COM., Bosch, 2007) and the Primer Informe sobre la Transparencia en el Sector Audiovisual Español [First Report on Transparency in the Spanish Audiovisual Sector] (TRA.BU.COM., Felipe II Libros, 2008) document the initial phase of field and documentary research to have been carried out in Spain within this domain. There must be added to this the Segundo Informe sobre la Transparencia en el Sector Audiovisual (2008), recently published, that includes theorical reflexions on transparency in Brazil, in Spain and in Mexico. A second piece of fieldwork about 42 Spanish audiovisual operators may be found too, as well as the first steps of the fieldwork undertook by the Mexican team on almost 70 Mexican audiovisual operators.
In order to consolidate the Observatory on Transparency in the Audiovisual Sector, TRA.BU.COM.,s research efforts remain ongoing whilst it works towards enhancing the tools upon which it has relied to the present day and forging relationships with civil society and the representatives from the Spanish and Mexican audiovisual sectors who were invited to participate in the field work carried out in 2007 and in 2008. The 2009-2010 Report on Transparency in the Audiovisual Sector (Tercer Informe sobre la Transparencia en el Sector Audiovisual) will take advantage from these steps and will fathom the comparative law research already started in 2008. The research group, now, consolidated, with public funding from the Autonomous Community of Madrid the first two years, and with private funding (Santander Bank) the next two, as a consequence of the UCM agreements in this sense, is currently giving support to the Mexican and Brazilian Sections whose first papers have been published in the Second Report.TRABUCOM wishes to widen its theoretical and field research to Anglosaxon searchers, so deepening the comparative law study to other latitudes.
