At the end of last month, the 2013 annual activity report of the Joint Monitoring Commission of the Self-Regulation Code on Television Contents and Children was presented. In the referred period, the claims of the spectators analyzed by the Code Self-Regulation Committee, amount to 44 (less than in the previous report).
These claims refer to the broadcast schedule during protected hours (from 6 in the morning to 10 at night) by the different chains belonging to the television audiovisual communication service providers signing the Code: ATRESMEDIA, CRTVE, FORTA, MEDIASET ESPAÑA, NET TV and EDITORIAL UNIT. The objective scope on which the Self-Regulation Committee has worked has undergone a significant change with respect to the tradition maintained, because so far and since the beginning of its activities only the claims corresponding to the reinforced protection schedule had been submitted to its opinion , opinion that now expands to the general protection strip provided by law.
20 of the 44 claims refer to programs issued by MEDIASET SPAIN; 14 to ATRESMEDIA, and the rest are distributed between TVE (8) and regional television (one referred to ARAGÓN TV and another to TVV)
The Self-Regulation Committee has accepted 6 of the 44 claims analyzed (13.6%), considering that in those cases there were inconveniences for the broadcast of the claimed content.
Two of them refer to the Ana Rosa Program (TELE 5), for explicit images of nudes and prostitution during reinforced protection. And the remaining four to the Summer Program (TELE 5), understanding that their qualification was inadequate by explicit comments of a sexual nature; to traveling stray (FOUR) for images and comments explicitly sexual in protected hours; Ola Ola (LA SEVEN) also because of his inadequate rating for images of explicitly sexual content and, News (LA 1) for images of children without pixelar in a report on child pornography.
Improve the protection of minors as viewers
The Self-Regulation Code on Television Contents and Children was initially signed in December 2004, with the main objective of improve the effectiveness in the protection of minors as television viewers. Currently they are part of it and constitute its MEDIASET, ATRESMEDIA, CRTVE, FORTA, EDITORIAL UNIT AND NET TV Self-Regulation Committee.
The Joint Monitoring Commission, in charge of supervising the application of the Code, is composed of representatives of the aforementioned televisions and representatives of the social organizations CEAPA, CONCAPA, Council of Consumers and Users, ICMEDIA and Children's Organizations Platform.
The 2013 report is the first one after the assumption of competences in audiovisual matters by the National Commission of Markets and Competition, which also exercises the functions of Secretariat of the Joint Monitoring Commission
We must also highlight other developments in relation to this report: the fact that for the first time it fits a calendar year. That the Self-Regulation Committee has begun to analyze claims related to the legal protection schedule of the child (from 6 in the morning to 10 at night) and not only in the reinforced protection strips. And that a new claims form has been designed, which translates into a direct, automated and simple procedure for processing and that has become the only way to receive them.
