
CAP Code
7
MENTIONS
1
EPISODES
1
PODCASTS
Search complete. 7 mentions across 1 episode found for "CAP Code".
Sep 18, 2026
Bristows - Cease & Discuss: Navigating the new rules on advertising "less healthy foods"
R
1:50Rob PowellHOST
So that's the hard legislation.
R
1:52Rob PowellHOST
In addition to that, you've got the self-regulatory rules, so the CAP code and the BCAP code, which as we know are enforced by the ASA.
R
2:02Rob PowellHOST
And then just to mention as well, there's the existing child protection rules, which are at section 15 of the CAP code, and that applies to all HFSS advertising directed at children, so regardless of this new legislation that we're covering today.
R
2:18Rob PowellHOST
And the key point just really to make about that is that this new statutory regime doesn't replace the cap code, it sits alongside it.
N
2:27Naina PatelGUEST
Yeah, definitely a key point to remember.
N
2:30Naina PatelGUEST
So I think obviously there's been a major change from January of this year, and that's when the UK introduced product-based advertising restrictions rather than just these child targeting restrictions that you mentioned.
16 MINS LATER
R
18:14Rob PowellHOST
It was a less healthy food as defined.
R
18:16Rob PowellHOST
And therefore, because that is an ad, it breached the prohibition, so was picked up on.