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Children and monitors
Television, video games: what signage for the young audience?
Publié le null - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
A new awareness-raising campaign on the risks of exposure of children to inappropriate audiovisual images or content is under way. Do you know that there are signs for TV programs and video games?
Television
Youth signage is a program classification system that the CSA has established with television channels. This means that they must display a pictogram at the bottom left of the screen which defines the categories of program corresponding to age groups. This signage is accompanied by programming conditions and constraints on broadcasting schedules.
Not recommended for children under 10 years of age: programs with certain scenes that may affect children under 10 years of age.
Not recommended for children under 12: films forbidden for children under 12 years of age and programs that can disturb children under 12 years of age, especially when the scenario repeatedly resorts to physical or psychological violence.
Not recommended for children under 16: films forbidden for children under 16 years of age and programs of an erotic nature or of great violence, likely to impair the physical, mental or moral development.
Not recommended for children under the age of 18: films forbidden to children under 18 years of age and pornographic or very violent programs, reserved for an informed adult audience and likely to harm the physical, mental or moral development of children under 18 years of age.
FYI
If you find that a very violent program does not have the appropriate logo, you can report to APF.
Video games
The PEGI ranking (for Pan European Game Information
The game can be used by any child of any age: it has no frightening images and no coarse language is used.
The game is for children over 7 years old. Some scenes can indeed frighten very young children.
Gambling is forbidden to children under 12 years of age: it may include scenes that may shock the youngest (nudity, violence), it may also include a slightly rude language (but no insults of a sexual nature).
Gambling is forbidden to children under 16 years of age: it involves scenes of great violence and sexual nature, very rude language is used, sequences where tobacco and drugs are used are present.
Gambling is forbidden for children under 18. It contains particularly explicit and realistic scenes of violence.
The game contains images or elements that may incite racial, sexist discrimination, etc.
Gambling refers to the use of drugs.
Gambling can induce gambling (poker, roulette, etc.).
The game has coarse expressions.
The game can scare the youngest children.
The game includes nudity and/or sexual scenes.
The game features scenes of physical violence.
The game can involve an extra expense of money (purchase of bonuses, outfits for the characters, etc.).
FYI
Such signs shall also be mandatory on demonstration installations in shops and shopping malls.
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