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Culture, Media and Sport - Fifth Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 May 2003.


CONTENTS


Terms of Reference

Summary

Conclusions and recommendations

1. Introduction

The inquiry

The dilemma

Defining terms

The different media

The Government's position

2. The broadcasters

Regulation

The BSC

The BBC

Numbers of complaints

Doorstepping

3. The press

Background

Structure

Performance

Proactivity and third party complaints

Pressbof

The PCC and the law

Introduction

Criminal and civil offences and the Code

References to the Code in statute and in Court

A privacy law

Conclusion

Annex A: The Code of Press Conduct

Annex B: Examples of co-regulation

Annex C: Privacy law in other countries

Annex D: Informal meeting with the Information Commissioner

Formal minutes

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE

Tuesday 25 February 2003
Tuesday 4 March 2003
Tuesday 11 March 2003
Tuesday 25 March 2003
Tuesday 1 April 2003
Tuesday 8 April 2003
Wednesday 21 May 2003
Tuesday 4 March 2003 (morning session, taken in private)

Witnesses

List of written evidence in Volume II

List of written evidence in Volume III

List of unprinted written evidence

Reports from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee since 2001




 
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