General Principles

2 key guiding principles:

• Works should be allowed to reach the widest audience that is appropriate for their theme and treatment
• Adults should, as far as possible, be free to choose what they see, provided that it remains within the law and is not potentially harmful

3 main qualifications:

• Whether the material is in conflict with the law or has been created via commission of criminality
• If it may cause harm at the category concerned - result of viewer behaviour, moral harm (e.g. desensitization/eroding sense of moral responsibility
• The availability of the material is clearly unacceptable to broad public opinion beyond age group concerned