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On 21 February 2018, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned two television advertisements on the grounds that they breached the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP Code) rules relating to the protection of children. The decisions provide helpful guidance on alcohol advertising, and advertisements which may be harmful to children. The first television advertisement was for a discount supermarket chain, Aldi Stores Ltd, and formed part of their 2017 Christmas campaign, which featured a computer-generated image of a carrot in a number of parodies of popular films. The advertisement...

On 26 January 2018, the Conseil d’Etat delivered a decision that adds another stone to the edifice of jurisprudence on the issue of certificates for films likely to be harmful to young people or undermine respect for human dignity. In the case at issue, two associations had called on the courts to annul the Minister for Culture’s decision granting a certificate to the film “Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)” that prevented its showing to anyone under 12 years of age without warning, on the grounds that she had exceeded her powers. The film, screened in cinemas since January, depicts a 16-year-old...

The Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) approved the amendments made to the Broadcasting Code on December 2017. The Broadcasting Code was first drafted and approved in 2014 by the regulator. In 2017, the Council of Complaints, the body in charge of public complaints related to ethics in broadcasting programmes, started a revision process of this Code. According to AMA’s press release, this revision was necessary “in view of the swift development of the audiovisual media industry, the trends in programme production, as well as the way information and entertainment offered by audiovisual operators...

On 1 March 2018, the European Commission issued a Recommendation on measures to effectively tackle illegal content online. The Recommendation addresses the need for IT companies and member states to put in place a series of operational measures for the effective removal of illegal content, as well as necessary safeguards intended to protect users’ fundamental rights. This Recommendation should be seen in the light of the Communication of September 2017 on tackling illegal content online, in which the Commission emphasised the increasing responsibility of Internet intermediaries in the countering...

The Editors' Code of Practice, under which the clear majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists operate, was reviewed in 2017, and changes to it became effective from 1 January 2018. The Code is regarded as the “cornerstone” of the UK press self-regulatory system. Its rules, which are framed by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, set standards that the voluntarily subscribing industry members have agreed to maintain. Editors and publishers can be held to account via the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which became the new regulatory body for the...