BRUSSELS PLOTS EXTENSION OF JUNK FOOD AD RESTRICTIONS TO YOUTUBE
May 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the European Union’s (EU) audiovisual media services directive, which would extend to the Internet commitments on EU governments to restrict junk food advertising targeted at children.
In formal proposals to update EU directive 2010/13/EU, the Commission has proposed that regulators “encourage the development of self- and co-regulatory codes of conduct regarding inappropriate audiovisual commercial communications, accompanying or included in programmes with a significant children’s audience, of foods and ...
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