Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Children's Television Act of 1997 (Philippines)

The Implementing Rules and Regulations required the National Council for Children's Television (Council) to prescribe an appropriate set of criteria for evaluating programs that takes into consideration the sensibilities of children with the end in view of establishing a Television Violence Rating Code. 

For the Comprehensive Media Program and the Television Violence Rating Code, the Council shall be guided by The Charter of Children's Television. The foregoing charter states that: 

1. Children should have high quality programs, which are made specifically for them and which do not exploit them.
2. Children should hear, see and express themselves and their culture, languages and life experiences through television programs, which affirm their sense of self, community and place.
3. Children’s programs should promote an awareness and appreciation of other cultures in parallel with the child’s own cultural background.
4. Children’s programs should be wide-ranging in genre and content, but should not include gratuitous scenes of violence and sex.
5. Children’s programs should be aired during regular time slots when children are available to view and distributed through widely accessible media or technologies.
6. Sufficient funds must be made available to make these programs conform to the highest possible standards.
7. Government, production, distribution and funding organizations should recognize both the importance and vulnerability of indigenous children’s television and the steps to support and protect it.